11,289,335 43.9% 10,278,010 39.9% 969,946 3.8% | 43.9% 169 39.9% 154 3.8% 2 | |
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This is the regional results breakdown of the Congress of Deputies election held in Spain on 9 March 2008, showing results in each of the country's 17 autonomous communities as well as in the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla.
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. Gender quotas were introduced in 2007, requiring for party lists to be composed of at least 40% of candidates of either gender and for each group of five candidates to contain at least two males and two females. 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.