With 60% participation, the 2019 european elections were celebrated in Spain at the same time as the municipal and many autonomous. This had a clear consequence: a participation increase in elections in which, traditionally, the population does not get involved easily. Although a high percentage of the population assures, before the election, that they will go to vote, the truth is that abstention in European elections is usually higher than, for example, in municipal ones. And it is curious, taking into account the importance of the European Parliament elections.

Even so, in the last European elections, which are held every five years, six out of every ten voters went to their polling station (or, at least, took advantage of the trip to vote in local or regional elections) to choose one of the lists that They presented themselves to the European Parliament. From those elections, results came out that painted the Spanish map red, being the PSOE the most voted party.

In percentage of vote, the parties that obtained European representation They were the following ones:

  • PSOE – 32.9%
  • PP – 20.1%
  • Citizens – 12.2%
  • Podemos-IU – 10.1%
  • Vox – 6.2%
  • Now Republics – 5.6%
  • Together – 4.5%
  • CEUS – 2.8%

In 2019, Spain had the right to select 59 deputies to the European Parliament. Before the legislatures are renewed, it is the chamber itself that votes how many deputies will form the Parliament in the next, and how many correspond to each country. In the previous legislature, there were some changes once it started, given that the United Kingdom began as a member of the EU but its departure from the European bloc (Brexit) came into force on January 31, 2020, so it was necessary to restructure the hemicycle. Until February 1, this was the distribution of Spanish MEPs:

  • PSOE (20) – Clara Aguilera, Laura Ballarín, Estrella Durá, Jonás Fernández, Lina Gálvez, Ibán García, Isabel García, Iratxe García, Eider Gardiazábal, Mónica Silvana González, Nicolás González, Alicia Homs, Javi López, Juan Fernando López Aguilar, César Luena, Cristina Maestre , Javier Moreno, Inma Rodríguez-Piñero, Domènech Ruiz and Nacho Sánchez.
  • PP (12) – Pablo Arias, Isabel Benjumea, Pilar del Castillo, Ana Collado, Rosa Estaràs, José Manuel García-Margallo, Leopoldo López, Antonio López-Istúriz, Francisco José Millán, Dolors Montserrat, Javier Zarzalejos and Juan Ignacio Zoido
  • Citizens (7) – José Ramón Bauzá, Jordi Cañas, Maite Pagazaurtundúa, Eva María Poptcheva, María Soraya Rodríguez, Susana Solís and Javier Nart
  • United We Can (6) – Patricia Caro ( Podemos ), Eugenia Rodríguez Palop ( Podemos ), Esther Sanz ( Podemos ), Idoia Villanueva ( Podemos ), Manu Pineda ( IU ) and Miguel Urbán ( Podemos )
  • Vox (3) – Mazaly Aguilar, Jorge Buxadé and Hermann Tertsch
  • Now Republics (3) – Ana Miranda (BNG), Diana Riba (ERC) and Jordi Solé (ERC)
  • Together (2) – Toni Comín and Carles Puigdemont
  • CEUS (1) – Izaskun Bilbao (PNV)

As of February 1, with the United Kingdom already out of the EU, Spain won a few deputies and Marcos Ros (PSOE), Gabriel Mato (PP), Adrián Vázquez (Ciudadanos), Margarita de la Pisa (Vox) and Clara Ponsatí (Junts) had to travel to Brussels.