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Spanish general election, 1979
All 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies and all 208 seats in the Senate; 176 seats needed for a majority in the Congress of Deputies
	Opinion polls
Registered	26,836,490 13.8%
Turnout	18,259,192 (68.0%); 10.8 pp
	Provincial results map for the Congress of Deputies
Prime Minister before election; Adolfo Suárez; UCD	Elected Prime Minister ; Adolfo Suárez; UCD

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The 1979 Spanish general election was held on Thursday, 1 March 1979, to elect the 1st Cortes Generales of the Kingdom of Spain. All 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies were up for election, as well as all 208 seats in the Senate.

This was the first election held under the Spanish Constitution of 1978. The Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) remained the largest party, winning 168 of the 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies and 119 of the 208 seats in the Senate. As a result, Adolfo Suárez went on to form a minority government, dependant on support from Manuel Fraga's Democratic Coalition, which experienced an electoral decline.

Overview

The Spanish legislature, the Cortes Generales, was composed of two chambers at the time of the 1979 election:

The lower chamber, the Congress of Deputies.
The upper chamber, the Senate.

This bicameral system was regarded as asymmetric. Legislative initiative belonged to both chambers—as well as to the Government—but the Congress had greater legislative power than the Senate. Only the Congress had the ability to grant or revoke confidence from a Prime Minister, and it could override Senate vetoes to an initiative by an absolute majority of votes. Nonetheless, the Senate possessed a few exclusive, yet limited in number functions—such as its role in constitutional amendment—which were not subject to the Congress' override.^[1]

This system, enshrined by the Spanish Constitution of 1978, was envisaged to grant political stability to governments as well as to reinforce the Prime Minister's position, providing for a constructive vote of no confidence that could only be exercised by the Congress. It also implemented an enhanced protection against constitutional amendment, which would require the involvement of both chambers, as well as a special process with higher approval thresholds and stricter requirements for overall constitutional reforms or amendments on the so-called "protected provisions".^[2]

Electoral system

Voting was on the basis of universal suffrage, with all nationals over eighteen and in the full enjoyment of all political rights entitled to vote. Concurrently, nationals meeting the previous criteria and not involved in any cause of ineligibility were eligible for both the Congress and the Senate.

For the Congress of Deputies, 348 seats were allocated to 50 multi-member districts—each constituency corresponding to a province—using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with Ceuta and Melilla electing one member each using plurality voting for a total of 350 seats. Each district was entitled to an initial minimum of two seats, with the remaining 248 seats allocated among the 50 provinces in proportion to their populations. A threshold of 3% of valid votes—which included blank ballots—was applied in each constituency, with parties not reaching the threshold not entitled to enter the seat distribution.

For the Senate, each of the 47 peninsular constituencies was allocated four seats. For insular provinces, such as the Balearic and the Canary Islands, districts were the islands themselves, with the larger—Majorca, Gran Canaria and Tenerife—being allocated three seats each, and the smaller—Menorca, Ibiza-Formentera, Fuerteventura, La Gomera, El Hierro, Lanzarote and La Palma—one each. Ceuta and Melilla elected two seats each, for a total of 208 directly elected seats, using an open list partial block voting. Instead of voting for parties, electors would vote for individual candidates. In districts electing four seats, electors could vote for up to three candidates; in those with two or three seats, for up to two candidates; and for one candidate in single-member constituencies. Additionally, autonomous communities could appoint at least one senator each and were entitled to one additional seat per each million inhabitants.^[3]

Opinion polling

Poll results are listed in the tables below in reverse chronological order, showing the most recent first, and using the date the survey's fieldwork was done, as opposed to the date of publication. If such date is unknown, the date of publication is given instead. The highest percentage figure in each polling survey is displayed in bold, and the background shaded in the leading party's colour. In the instance that there is a tie, then no figure is shaded. The lead column on the right shows the percentage-point difference between the two parties with the highest figures. When a specific poll does not show a data figure for a party, the party's cell corresponding to that poll is shown empty.

Polling firm/Link	Last date of polling						PNV	UN	Margin of error	Sample size	Lead
Polling firm/Link	Last date of polling	style="background:Template:Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)/meta/color;"\|	style="background:Template:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party/meta/color;"\|	style="background:Template:Communist Party of Spain/meta/color;"\|	style="background:Template:Democratic Coalition (Spain)/meta/color;"\|	style="background:Template:Convergence and Union/meta/color;"\|	style="background:Template:Basque Nationalist Party/meta/color;"\|	style="background:Template:National Union (Spain)/meta/color;"\|	Margin of error	Sample size	Lead

General Election	March 1, 1979	34.8	30.4	10.7	5.9	2.7	1.6	2.1			style="background:Template:Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)/meta/color; color:white;"\| 4.4

Sofemasa	February 21, 1979	32.9	35.0	11.0	6.3	1.8	1.7	2.3			style="background:Template:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party/meta/color; color:white;"\| 2.1
RNC	February 6, 1979	34	36	14	13						style="background:Template:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party/meta/color; color:white;"\| 2
Gallup	February 6, 1979	30	46	10	13						style="background:Template:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party/meta/color; color:white;"\| 16
El Imparcial	February 5, 1979	25.6	26.1	17.5	11.6						style="background:Template:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party/meta/color; color:white;"\| 0.5
Cambio 16	February 1, 1979	31.0	39.5	8.3	3.4						style="background:Template:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party/meta/color; color:white;"\| 8.5
Sofemasa	January 31, 1979	32.2	35.4	9.9	3.9						style="background:Template:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party/meta/color; color:white;"\| 3.2

General Election	June 15, 1977	34.4	29.3	9.3	8.2	2.8	1.6	0.4			style="background:Template:Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)/meta/color; color:white;"\| 5.1

Results

Congress of Deputies

Most voted party by autonomous communities and provinces.

← Summary of the 1 March 1979 Congress of Deputies election results →
Party		Popular vote			Seats

Party		Votes	%	±pp	Won	+/−
width="1" bgcolor="Template:Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)/meta/color"\|	Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD)	6,268,593	34.84	+0.40	168	+3
bgcolor="Template:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party/meta/color"\|	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)¹	5,469,813	30.40	–3.38	121	–3
bgcolor="Template:Communist Party of Spain/meta/color"\|	Communist Party of Spain (PCE)	1,938,487	10.77	+1.44	23	+3

width="1" bgcolor="Template:Democratic Coalition (Spain)/meta/color"\|	Democratic Coalition (CD)³		1,094,438	6.08	–2.33	9	–7
	width="1" bgcolor="Template:Democratic Coalition (Spain)/meta/color"\|	Democratic Coalition (CD)³	1,060,330	5.89	–2.05	9	–6
	bgcolor="Template:Basque Country Foral Union/meta/color"\|	Basque Country Foral Union (UFV)⁴	34,108	0.19	–0.29	0	–1

width="1" bgcolor="Template:Convergence and Union/meta/color"\|	Convergence and Union (CiU)⁵	483,353	2.69	–1.06	8	–5
bgcolor="Template:National Union (Spain)/meta/color"\|	National Union (UN)⁶	378,964	2.11	+1.53	1	+1
bgcolor="Template:Andalusian Party/meta/color"\|	Socialist Party of Andalusia–Andalusian Party (PSA–PA)	325,842	1.81	New	5	+5
bgcolor="Template:Basque Nationalist Party/meta/color"\|	Basque Nationalist Party (EAJ/PNV)	296,597	1.65	+0.03	7	–1
bgcolor="Template:Party of Labour of Spain/meta/color"\|	Party of Labour of Spain (PTE)⁷	192,798	1.07	+0.40	0	±0
bgcolor="Template:Herri Batasuna/meta/color"\|	Popular Unity (HB)⁸	172,110	0.96	+0.72	3	+3

width="1" bgcolor="Template:Workers' Revolutionary Organization (Spain)/meta/color"\|	Workers' Revolutionary Organization (ORT)⁹		138,487	0.77	+0.22	±0
	width="1" bgcolor="Template:Workers' Revolutionary Organization (Spain)/meta/color"\|	Workers' Revolutionary Organization (ORT)¹⁰	127,517	0.71	+0.29	±0
	bgcolor="Template:Navarrese Left Union/meta/color"\|	Navarrese Left Union (UNAI)	10,970	0.06	–0.07	±0

width="1" bgcolor="Template:Socialist Action Party (Spain)/meta/color"\|	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (historical) (PSOEh)¹¹	133,869	0.74	+0.05	0	±0
bgcolor="Template:Republican Left of Catalonia/meta/color"\|	Republican Left of Catalonia–National Front (ERC–FN)	123,452	0.69	–0.10	1	±0
bgcolor="Template:Euskadiko Ezkerra/meta/color"\|	Basque Country Left (EE)	85,677	0.48	+0.14	1	±0
bgcolor="Template:Communist Movement (Spain)/meta/color"\|	Communist Movement–Communist Left Organization (MC–OIC)	84,856	0.47	New	0	±0
bgcolor="Template:Galician National-Popular Bloc/meta/color"\|	Galician National-Popular Bloc (BNPG)	60,889	0.34	+0.22	0	±0
bgcolor="Template:Canarian People's Union/meta/color"\|	Canarian People's Union (UPC)	58,953	0.33	New	1	+1
bgcolor="Template:Left Bloc for National Liberation/meta/color"\|	Left Bloc for National Liberation (BEAN)	56,582	0.31	New	0	±0
bgcolor="Template:Galician Unity/meta/color"\|	Galician Unity (PG–POG–PSG)¹²	55,555	0.31	+0.16	0	±0
bgcolor="Template:Republican Left (Spain, 1977)/meta/color"\|	Republican Left (IR)	55,384	0.31	New	0	±0
bgcolor="Template:Carlist Party (1970)/meta/color"\|	Carlist Party (PC)	50,552	0.28	+0.23	0	±0
bgcolor="Template:Communist Organization of Spain (Red Flag)/meta/color"\|	Communist Organization–Communist Unification (OCEBR–UCE)	47,937	0.27	New	0	±0
bgcolor="Template:Workers' Communist Party (Spain)/meta/color"\|	Workers' Communist Party (PCT)	47,896	0.27	New	0	±0
bgcolor="Template:Regionalist Aragonese Party/meta/color"\|	Regionalist Aragonese Party (PAR)¹³	38,042	0.21	+0.01	1	±0
bgcolor="Template:Revolutionary Communist League (Spain)/meta/color"\|	Revolutionary Communist League (LCR)¹⁴	36,662	0.20	–0.02	0	±0
bgcolor="Template:Spanish Falange of the JONS/meta/color"\|	Authentic Spanish Falange of the JONS (FE–JONS(A))	30,252	0.17	–0.08	0	±0
bgcolor="Template:Navarrese People's Union/meta/color"\|	Navarrese People's Union (UPN)	28,248	0.16	New	1	+1
	Coalition for Aragon (PSAr–PSDA)	19,220	0.11	New	0	±0

Parties with less than 0.1% of the vote		160,140	0.89	—	±0
width="1" bgcolor="Template:Nationalist Party of Castile and León/meta/color"\|	Nationalist Party of Castile and León (PANCAL)	16,016	0.09	New	±0
bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (Spain, 1976)/meta/color"\|	Liberal Party (PL)	15,774	0.09	New	±0
bgcolor="Template:Valencian Nationalist Left/meta/color"\|	Valencian Regional Union (URV)	15,694	0.09	New	±0
bgcolor="Template:Nationalist Party of the Valencian Country/meta/color"\|	Nationalist Party of the Valencian Country (PNPV)	13,828	0.08	New	±0
bgcolor="Template:Spanish Ruralist Party/meta/color"\|	Spanish Ruralist Party (PRE)	10,324	0.06	New	±0
	Party of the Canarian Country (PDPCan)	10,099	0.06	New	±0
bgcolor="Template:Socialist Party of Majorca/meta/color"\|	Socialists of Mallorca and Menorca (SMiM)	10,022	0.06	New	±0
bgcolor="Template:Syndicalist Party/meta/color"\|	Syndicalist Party (PSIN)	9,777	0.05	New	±0
	Union for the Freedom of Speech (ULE)	7,126	0.04	New	±0
bgcolor="Template:Estat Català/meta/color"\|	Catalan State (EC)	6,328	0.04	New	±0
bgcolor="Template:Cantonal Party/meta/color"\|	Cantonal Party (PCAN)	6,290	0.03	New	±0
	Independent Candidacy of the Countryside (CIC)	6,115	0.03	New	±0
bgcolor="Template:Social Christian Democracy of Catalonia/meta/color"\|	Social Christian Democracy of Catalonia (DSCC)	4,976	0.03	–0.02	±0
bgcolor="Template:Proverist Party/meta/color"\|	Proverist Party (PPR)	4,939	0.03	±0.00	±0
bgcolor="Template:Spanish Democratic Republican Action/meta/color"\|	Spanish Democratic Republican Action (ARDE)	4,826	0.03	New	±0
bgcolor="Template:Communist Workers League (Spain)/meta/color"\|	Communist League (LC)	3,614	0.02	New	±0
bgcolor="Template:Asturian Nationalist Council/meta/color"\|	Asturian Nationalist Council (CNA)	3,049	0.02	New	±0
bgcolor="Template:Spanish Falange of the JONS/meta/color"\|	Authentic Spanish Falange (FEA)	2,736	0.02	New	±0
	Pro-Austerity Policy Political Party (PIPPA)	2,409	0.01	New	±0
	Workers' Peasant Party (POC)	2,314	0.01	New	±0
bgcolor="Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color""\|	Independent Candidates (CIME)	1,820	0.01	New	±0
bgcolor="Template:Independent Spanish Falange/meta/color"\|	Falangist Unity–Independent Spanish Falange (UF–FI–AT)	1,188	0.01	New	±0
bgcolor="Template:Falangist Mountain Unity/meta/color"\|	Spanish Falange–Falangist Unity (FE–UF)	876	0.00	New	±0

Blank ballots

57,267

0.32

+0.07

Total

17,990,915

100.00

350

±0

Valid votes

17,990,915

98.53

–0.04

Invalid votes

268,277

1.47

+0.04

Votes cast / turnout

18,259,192

68.04

–10.79

Abstentions

8,577,298

31.96

+10.79

Registered voters

26,836,490

Source: Ministry of the Interior

Popular vote

UCD			34.84%
PSOE			30.40%
PCE			10.77%
CD			6.08%
CiU			2.69%
UN			2.11%
PSA–PA			1.81%
EAJ/PNV			1.65%
PTE			1.07%
HB			0.96%
ERC–FN			0.69%
EE			0.48%
UPC			0.33%
PAR			0.21%
UPN			0.16%
Others			5.43%
Blank ballots			0.32%

Seats

UCD			48.00%
PSOE			34.57%
PCE			6.57%
CD			2.57%
CiU			2.29%
EAJ/PNV			2.00%
PSA–PA			1.43%
HB			0.86%
UN			0.29%
ERC–FN			0.29%
EE			0.29%
UPC			0.29%
PAR			0.29%
UPN			0.29%

Senate

← Summary of the 1 March 1979 Senate of Spain election results →
Party		Seats

Party		Won	+/−	Not up	Total seats
width="1" bgcolor="Template:Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)/meta/color"\|	Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD)	119	+13	—	119
bgcolor="Template:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party/meta/color"\|	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)^[d]	70	+11	—	70
bgcolor="Template:Communist Party of Spain/meta/color"\|	Communist Party of Spain (PCE)	0	–1	—	0
bgcolor="Template:Democratic Coalition (Spain)/meta/color"\|	Democratic Coalition (CD)^[e]	3	+1	—	3
bgcolor="Template:Per l'Entesa/meta/color"\|	For the Agreement (PSUC–PTC)^[f]	1	–3	—	1
bgcolor="Template:Convergence and Union/meta/color"\|	Convergence and Union (CiU)^[g]	1	–1	—	1
bgcolor="Template:Basque Nationalist Party/meta/color"\|	Basque Nationalist Party (EAJ/PNV)	8	+2	—	8
bgcolor="Template:Herri Batasuna/meta/color"\|	Popular Unity (HB)	1	+1	—	1
bgcolor="Template:Euskadiko Ezkerra/meta/color"\|	Basque Country Left (EE)	0	–1	—	0
bgcolor="Template:Aragonese Party/meta/color"\|	Regionalist Aragonese Party (PAR)	0	–1	—	0
bgcolor="Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color"\|	Independent Electors' Group (ADEI)^[h]	3	–1	—	3
bgcolor="Template:Minorca Socialist Party/meta/color"\|	Minorcan Progressive Candidacy (CPMen)	1	+1	—	1
bgcolor="Template:Majorera Assembly/meta/color"\|	Majorera Assembly (AM)	0	–1	—	0
bgcolor="Template:Liberal Alliance (Spain)/meta/color"\|	Liberal Alliance (AL)	0	–1	—	0
bgcolor="Template:Galician Democratic Candidacy/meta/color"\|	Galician Democratic Candidacy (CDG)	0	–2	—	0
bgcolor="Template:Democratic Left (Spain)/meta/color"\|	Democratic Left (ID)	0	–5	—	0
bgcolor="Template:Euskal Sozialistak Elkartzeko Indarra/meta/color"\|	Force for Basque Socialists' Unity (ESEI)	0	–1	—	0
bgcolor="Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color"\|	Independents	1	–10	—	1

Total		208	+1	—	208

Source(s): Ministry of the Interior, Historia Electoral
^ Cite error: The named reference `PSOE+PSP` was invoked but never defined (see the help page). ^ Cite error: The named reference `AP` was invoked but never defined (see the help page). ^ Cite error: The named reference `PDC+UC–DCC` was invoked but never defined (see the help page). ^ Spanish Socialist Workers' Party results are compared to the combined totals of the PSOE, PSP–US, FSC, PSC–C and ERC in the 1977 election. ^ Democratic Coalition results are compared to People's Alliance totals in the 1977 election. ^ For the Agreement results are compared to PSUC totals in the 1977 election. ^ CiU results are compared to Democracy and Catalonia totals in the 1977 election. ^ ADEI results are compared to Independents of Soria totals in the 1977 election.

Seats

UCD			57.21%
PSOE			33.65%
EAJ/PNV			3.85%
CD			1.44%
ADEI			1.44%
PSUC–PTC			0.48%
CiU			0.48%
HB			0.48%
CPMen			0.48%
Independents			0.48%

Bibliography

Carreras, Albert; Tafunell, Xavier; Soler, Raimon; Fontana, Josep (2005) [1989]. Estadísticas históricas de España, siglos XIX-XX (PDF) (in Spanish). Vol. Volume 1 (II ed.). Bilbao: Fundación BBVA. pp. 1072–1097. ISBN 84-96515-00-1. {{cite book}}: |volume= has extra text (help)

References

^ "Constitución española, Sinopsis artículo 66" (in Spanish). congreso.es. Retrieved 2015-10-27.
^ "Constitución de 1978" (in Spanish). boe.es. Retrieved 2016-12-27.
^ "Real Decreto-ley 20/1977, de 18 de marzo, sobre Normas Electorales" (in Spanish). boe.es. Retrieved 2016-12-27.

[PSOE+PSP-1] Cite error: The named reference PSOE+PSP was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[AP-2] Cite error: The named reference AP was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[PDC+UC–DCC-3] Cite error: The named reference PDC+UC–DCC was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[7] Spanish Socialist Workers' Party results are compared to the combined totals of the PSOE, PSP–US, FSC, PSC–C and ERC
in the 1977 election.

[8] Democratic Coalition results are compared to People's Alliance totals in the 1977 election.

[9] For the Agreement results are compared to PSUC totals in the 1977 election.

[10] CiU results are compared to Democracy and Catalonia totals in the 1977 election.

[11] ADEI results are compared to Independents of Soria totals in the 1977 election.

[4] "Constitución española, Sinopsis artículo 66" (in Spanish). congreso.es. Retrieved 2015-10-27.

[5] "Constitución de 1978" (in Spanish). boe.es. Retrieved 2016-12-27.

[6] "Real Decreto-ley 20/1977, de 18 de marzo, sobre Normas Electorales" (in Spanish). boe.es. Retrieved 2016-12-27.

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+| align="left"| [[Spanish Socialist Workers' Party]] (PSOE)<sup>1</sup>
 | 5,469,813 || 30.40 || <span style="color:red">–3.38
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-! style="text-align:left; font-weight:normal; background:#F9F9F9" colspan="2" width="473"| [[Democratic Coalition (Spain)|Democratic Coalition]] (CD){{efn|name=AP|Democratic Coalition results are compared to the combined totals of [[People's Alliance (Spain)|AP]] and DIV in the 1977 election.}}
+! style="text-align:left; font-weight:normal; background:#F9F9F9" colspan="2" width="473"| [[Democratic Coalition (Spain)|Democratic Coalition]] (CD)<sup>3</sup>
 | width="70"| 1,094,438 || width="40"| 6.08 || width="40"| <span style="color:red">–2.33
 | width="30"| '''9''' || width="30"| <span style="color:red">–7
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-| align="left"| [[Democratic Coalition (Spain)|Democratic Coalition]] (CD){{efn|Democratic Coalition results are compared to [[People's Alliance (Spain)|People's Alliance]] totals in the 1977 election, excluding [[Basque Country (autonomous community)|Basque Country]] results.}}
+| align="left"| [[Democratic Coalition (Spain)|Democratic Coalition]] (CD)<sup>3<sup>
 | 1,060,330 || 5.89 || <span style="color:red">–2.05
 | '''9''' || <span style="color:red">–6
 |- style="background:#EFEFEF;"
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-| align="left"| Basque Country Foral Union (UFV){{efn|Basque Country Foral Union results are compared to the combined totals of [[People's Alliance (Spain)|AP]] in the Basque Country and DIV in the 1977 election.}}
+| align="left"| Basque Country Foral Union (UFV)<sup>4</sup>
 | 34,108 || 0.19 || <span style="color:red">–0.29
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 | width="1" bgcolor="{{Convergence and Union/meta/color}}"|
-| align="left" width="473"| [[Convergence and Union]] (CiU){{efn|name=PDC+UC–DCC|Convergence and Union results are compared to the combined totals of [[Democratic Agreement for Catalonia|PDC]] and [[Union of the Centre and Christian Democracy of Catalonia|UC–DCC]] in the 1977 election.}}
+| align="left" width="473"| [[Convergence and Union]] (CiU)<sup>5</sup>
 | width="70"| 483,353 || width="40"| 2.69 || width="40"| <span style="color:red">–1.06
 | width="30"| '''8''' || width="30"| <span style="color:red">–5
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-| align="left"| [[National Union (Spain)|National Union]] (UN){{efn|National Union results are compared to [[National Alliance July 18]] totals in the 1977 election.}}
+| align="left"| [[National Union (Spain)|National Union]] (UN)<sup>6</sup>
 | 378,964 || 2.11 || <span style="color:green">+1.53
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-| align="left"| [[Party of Labour of Spain]] (PTE){{efn|Party of Labour of Spain results are compared to [[Democratic Left Front (Spain)|Democratic Left Front]] totals in the 1977 election.}}
+| align="left"| [[Party of Labour of Spain]] (PTE)<sup>7</sup>
 | 192,798 || 1.07 || <span style="color:green">+0.40
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-| align="left"| [[Herri Batasuna|Popular Unity]] (HB){{efn|Herri Batasuna results are compared to the combined totals of the [[Basque Socialist Party|ESB/PSV]] and [[Eusko Abertzale Ekintza|EAE/ANV]] in the 1977 election.}}
+| align="left"| [[Herri Batasuna|Popular Unity]] (HB)<sup>8</sup>
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+! style="text-align:left; font-weight:normal; background:#F9F9F9" colspan="2" width="473"| [[Workers' Revolutionary Organization (Spain)|Workers' Revolutionary Organization]] (ORT)<sup>9</sup>
 | width="70"| 138,487 || width="40"| 0.77 || width="40"| <span style="color:green">+0.22
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-| align="left"| [[Workers' Revolutionary Organization (Spain)|Workers' Revolutionary Organization]] (ORT)
+| align="left"| [[Workers' Revolutionary Organization (Spain)|Workers' Revolutionary Organization]] (ORT)<sup>10</sup>
 | 127,517 || 0.71 || <span style="color:green">+0.29
 | 0 || ±0
@@ Line 372: / Line 372: @@
 |-
 | width="1" bgcolor="{{Socialist Action Party (Spain)/meta/color}}"|
-| align="left" width="473"| [[Socialist Action Party (Spain)|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (historical)]] (PSOEh){{efn|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (historical) results are compared to Democratic Socialist Alliance totals in the 1977 election.}}
+| align="left" width="473"| [[Socialist Action Party (Spain)|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (historical)]] (PSOEh)<sup>11</sup>
 | width="70"| 133,869 || width="40"| 0.74 || width="40"| <span style="color:green">+0.05
 | width="30"| 0 || width="30"| ±0
@@ Line 407: / Line 407: @@
 |-
 | bgcolor="{{Galician Unity/meta/color}}"|
-| align="left"| [[Galician Unity]] ([[Partido Galeguista (1978)|PG]]–[[Galician Workers Party|POG]]–[[Galician Socialist Party (1963)|PSG]]){{efn|Galician Unity results are compared to [[Galician Socialist Party (1963)|Galician Socialist Party]] totals in the 1977 election.}}
+| align="left"| [[Galician Unity]] ([[Partido Galeguista (1978)|PG]]–[[Galician Workers Party|POG]]–[[Galician Socialist Party (1963)|PSG]])<sup>12</sup>
 | 55,555 || 0.31 || <span style="color:green">+0.16
 | 0 || ±0
@@ Line 431: / Line 431: @@
 | 0 || ±0
 |-
-| bgcolor="{{Aragonese Party/meta/color}}"|
+| bgcolor="{{Regionalist Aragonese Party/meta/color}}"|
-| align="left"| [[Aragonese Party|Regionalist Aragonese Party]] (PAR)
+| align="left"| [[Regionalist Aragonese Party]] (PAR)<sup>13</sup>
 | 38,042 || 0.21 || <span style="color:green">+0.01
 | '''1''' || ±0
 |-
 | bgcolor="{{Revolutionary Communist League (Spain)/meta/color}}"|
-| align="left"| [[Revolutionary Communist League (Spain)|Revolutionary Communist League]] (LCR)
+| align="left"| [[Revolutionary Communist League (Spain)|Revolutionary Communist League]] (LCR)<sup>14</sup>
 | 36,662 || 0.20 || <span style="color:red">–0.02
 | 0 || ±0
@@ Line 613: / Line 613: @@
 |-
 | align="left" colspan="7"| Source: [http://www.infoelectoral.mir.es/min/busquedaAvanzadaAction.html?vuelta=1&codTipoEleccion=2&codPeriodo=197903&codEstado=99&codComunidad=0&codProvincia=0&codMunicipio=0&codDistrito=0&codSeccion=0&codMesa=0 Ministry of the Interior]
+|-
-|- style="font-size:90%;"
-| align="left" colspan="7"| {{notelist}}
+| align="left" colspan="7"|
+{| class="navbox collapsible collapsed" style="text-align:left; font-size:90%; width:750px; float:left; border:0; margin-top:-1px;"
+|-
+! colspan="2" style="background:#FDFDFD;"| Notes:
+|-
+| style="font-size:90%; border:solid 1px silver; padding:8px; background:white;"|
+<sup>1</sup> [[Spanish Socialist Workers' Party]] results are compared to the combined totals of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party and [[People's Socialist Party (Spain)|People's Socialist Party–Socialist Unity]] in the 1977 election.<br/>
+<sup>2</sup> Aggregated data for [[Democratic Coalition (Spain)|Democratic Coalition]] and Basque Country Foral Union. While nominally different alliances, they did not compete against each other in the same geographical regions.<br/>
+<sup>3</sup> Democratic Coalition results are compared to [[People's Alliance (Spain)|People's Alliance]] totals in the 1977 election, not including results in the Basque Country.<br/>
+<sup>4</sup> Basque Country Foral Union results are compared to the combined totals of People's Alliance in the Basque Country and Basque Independent Democrats in the 1977 election.<br/>
+<sup>5</sup> [[Convergence and Union]] results are compared to the combined totals of [[Democratic Agreement for Catalonia]] and [[Union of the Centre and Christian Democracy of Catalonia]] in the 1977 election.<br/>
+<sup>6</sup> [[National Union (Spain)|National Union]] results are compared to [[National Alliance July 18]] totals in the 1977 election.<br/>
+<sup>7</sup> [[Party of Labour of Spain]] results are compared to [[Democratic Left Front (Spain)|Democratic Left Front]] totals in the 1977 election.<br/>
+<sup>8</sup> [[Herri Batasuna|Popular Unity]] results are compared to the combined totals of the [[Basque Socialist Party]] and [[Eusko Abertzale Ekintza|Basque Nationalist Action]] in the 1977 election.</sup>
+<sup>9</sup> Aggregated data for [[Workers' Revolutionary Organization (Spain)|Workers' Revolutionary Organization]] and [[Navarrese Left Union]]. While nominally different alliances, they did not compete against each other in the same geographical regions.</br>
+<sup>10</sup> Workers' Revolutionary Organization results are compared to Workers' Electoral Group totals in the 1977 election.<br/>
+<sup>11</sup> [[Socialist Action Party (Spain)|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (historical)]] results are compared to Democratic Socialist Alliance totals in the 1977 election.<br/>
+<sup>12</sup> [[Galician Unity]] results are compared to [[Galician Socialist Party (1963)|Galician Socialist Party]] totals in the 1977 election.<br/>
+<sup>13</sup> [[Regionalist Aragonese Party]] results are compared to Centre Independent Aragonese Candidature totals in the 1977 election.<br/>
+<sup>14</sup> [[Revolutionary Communist League (Spain)|Revolutionary Communist League]] results are compared to Workers' Unity Front totals in the 1977 election.
+|}
 |}
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 {{bar percent|[[Euskadiko Ezkerra|EE]]|{{Euskadiko Ezkerra/meta/color}}|0.48}}
 {{bar percent|[[Canarian People's Union|UPC]]|{{Canarian People's Union/meta/color}}|0.33}}
-{{bar percent|[[Aragonese Party|PAR]]|{{Aragonese Party/meta/color}}|0.21}}
+{{bar percent|[[Regionalist Aragonese Party|PAR]]|{{Regionalist Aragonese Party/meta/color}}|0.21}}
 {{bar percent|[[Navarrese People's Union|UPN]]|{{Navarrese People's Union/meta/color}}|0.16}}
 {{bar percent|Others|#777777|5.43}}
@@ Line 659: / Line 679: @@
 {{bar percent|[[Euskadiko Ezkerra|EE]]|{{Euskadiko Ezkerra/meta/color}}|0.29}}
 {{bar percent|[[Canarian People's Union|UPC]]|{{Canarian People's Union/meta/color}}|0.29}}
-{{bar percent|[[Aragonese Party|PAR]]|{{Aragonese Party/meta/color}}|0.29}}
+{{bar percent|[[Regionalist Aragonese Party|PAR]]|{{Regionalist Aragonese Party/meta/color}}|0.29}}
 {{bar percent|[[Navarrese People's Union|UPN]]|{{Navarrese People's Union/meta/color}}|0.29}}
 }}

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