The Socialists managed to retain the presidency and were the most voted in Congress and Senate
The Spanish Socialist Workers Party was the formation with the most votes in the general elections of November 10, 2019. The PSOE revalidated its position as the most supported party and its leader, Pedro Sánchez, was reappointed Prime Minister thanks to the support of Unidas Podemos, En Comú Podem, PNV, Más País, Galicia en Común, Nueva Canarias, Compromís, the Bloque Nacionalista Galego and Teruel Existe, who voted yes to the investiture, while ERC and Bildu abstained. The PP, Vox, Ciudadanos, Junts per Catalunya, the CUP, the Canary Islands Coalition, UPN and the Cantabrian Regionalist Party voted against.
He PSOE obtained a total of 6,752,983 votes, 28% of the total, and thanks to this he managed 120 seats, 31 more than the next most supported party, the Popular Party, which stayed at 89 after achieving 5,019,869 votes. By provinces, Madrid was the one that contributed the most deputies to the Socialists, with 10. Barcelona gave it 8, Seville added 5 and Valencia, Alicante and Malaga, 4.
Murcia, Cádiz, A Coruña, Las Palmas, Asturias, Granada, Pontevedra, Zaragoza, Badajoz, Huelva and Jaén contributed 3, while Vizcaya, the Balearic Islands, Tenerife, Almería, Córdoba, Tarragona, Toledo, Castellón, Ciudad Real, Valladolid, Albacete, Burgos, Cáceres, La Rioja, León, Lugo, Ourense, Cuenca and Huesca esco They gave 2 socialist deputies. In all the others, the PSOE got 1, except in Ceuta and Melilla, in which its only seat went to Vox and PP, respectively.
Regarding the results for the Senate, the Socialists were also the ones who obtained the most senators. he got 93 after receiving 19,481,846 votes. They are 30 fewer than in the previous elections, but they were enough to take control of the Upper House together with their allies on the left.