8,115,568 39.6% 5,285,972 25.8% 1,858,588 9.1% | 39.6% 175 25.8% 107 9.1% 17 | |
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This is the regional results breakdown of the Congress of Deputies election held in Spain on 29 October 1989, showing results in each of the country's 17 autonomous communities as well as in the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla.
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Electoral system
The Spanish electoral system was regulated under the Organic Law 5/1985, of 19 June, of the General Electoral System. A total of 350 seats were elected for the Congress of Deputies, with Ceuta and Melilla electing one member each using plurality voting. The other 348 seats were distributed among 50 multi-member constituency—each corresponding to a province—, with an initial minimum of two seats per constituency and the remaining 248 being awarded in proportion to the districts populations. For the election of deputies, the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation was used, with a threshold of 3% of valid votes—which included blank ballots—being applied. Parties not reaching the threshold were not taken into consideration for seat distribution.
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. Groups of electors were required to obtain the signatures of at least 1% of registered electors in a particular district in order to be able to field candidates.
Melilla
The results of the 1989 general election in Melilla were declared void by the Spanish Supreme Court because of perceived irregularities in the ballot counting process and the initial vote tally awarding the district's only seat to the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party being extremely close. A by-election was held on 25 March 1990, in which the district's seat was won by the People's Party by a wide margin, preventing the PSOE from commanding an overall majority in the Congress of Deputies.