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Spanish general election, 2000
All 350 seats of the Congress of Deputies and 208 of 264 seats in the Senate
March 12, 2000
	Province-level units won by PSOE (red/purple) and PP (blue)
	Incumbent PM; Aznar; PP PM-elect; Aznar; PP

Legislative elections were held in Spain on March 12, 2000. The incumbent People's Party of Prime Minister José María Aznar was elected to a second term in office, converting its plurality of seats in the Congress of Deputies into a majority, and increasing its lead over the opposition Spanish Socialist Workers' Party.

[edit] National summary of votes and seats

Evolution of popular vote in the Spanish General Elections from the democratic transition until 2008. Voter turnout is usually high.

Registered voters: 33,045,318
Votes cast: 23,125,773 70.0

Party	Votes	% & Δ%	Seats & Δ
Andalusian Party	205,733	00.9 +00.4	1 +1
Aragonist Front	75,234	00.3 +00.1	1 +1
Basque Nationalist Party	351,816	01.5 +00.2	7 +2
Basque Solidarity	100,570	00.4 -00.1	1
Canary Islands Coalition	243,489	01.1 +00.2	4
Convergence and Unity	964,990	04.2 -00.4	15 -1
Galician Nationalist Bloc	302,726	01.3 +00.4	3 +1
People's Party	10,230,345	44.5 +05.8	183 +27
Republican Left of Catalonia	193,629	00.8 +00.1	1
Socialist Party (PSOE)	7,829,210	34.1 -07.3	125 -16
United Left	1,253,859	05.5 -05.0	8 -13
others	851,399	03.7	1 -2
blank	366,137	01.6
Total	22,969,753		350

Source: Adam Carr's Electoral Archive

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