Spanish Congress of Deputies

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The Spanish Congress of Deputies (Spanish: Congreso de los Diputados) is the lower house of the Cortes Generales, Spain's legislative branch.

It has 350 members, elected by popular vote on block lists by proportional representation in constituencies matching the Spanish provinces using the D'Hondt method. Deputies serve four-year terms.

(Absolute majority is 176 seats. Bold: majority. Italic: plurality)

Latest result

Basque Nationalist Party (Partido Nacionalista Vasco/Euzko Alderdi Jeltzalea)
Basque Solidarity (Eusko Alkartasuna)
Aralar
|align="right" |61,045
|align="right" |0.2
|align="right" |1


|-
|align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total (turnout  %)
|width="75" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|
|width="30" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| 
|width="30" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|350 
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|colspan=4|Source: El País Online
|}


History



Congreso de los Diputados





The building, Congreso de los Diputados, has a neoclassical style. It was designed by Narcisco Pascual y Colomer, and built between 1843 and 1850. It sits by the Carrera de San Jerónimo, in Madrid.


See also:
Spanish general election, 2000
Spanish general election, 2004
External links:
[Congreso de los Diputados - official website] (Spanish)














 



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