UPDATED: Zapatero wins Spanish election

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PSOE win with 169 seats – the original projection was overly optimistic. PP: 154

CiU: 10

PNV: 6

IU:2

ERC: 3

To me, this looks like a victory for the right in Spain. The PSOE have maintained their government but IU have practically disappeared, as have ERC.

Information about the political parties contending these elections.

So Zapatero is returned as PM. It's unlikely that they'll have the 176 they're hoping for.

ERC have dropped by half. I was asked the other day what was the cause of this drop and I answered: abstention and dissatisfaction. I'll add that their posters were crap too.
Actually it's looking like a rout for ERC.

PP: A poor result. Rajoy will probably be out. This will bring about the completion of the right-wing's victory in the party. Esperanza Aguirre looks to be the PP's new star in parliament.

Updated:

Ciudad Real goes from PSOE to PP

Balearic Islands go from PP to PSOE (… or maybe not)

Almería goes from PP to PSOE

Canary Islands go from PP to PSOE

– I couldn't really keep up with this bit. Apparently, Andalucia has gone to the PSOE, again.

Zapatero and the PSOE have won the Spanish elections.

Rajoy has given his thank you speech.

Llamazares, leader of Izquierda Unida has resigned. What about Rajoy?

Izquierda Unida down to 2 seats.

March 9, 2008 | Catalonia, PP, Politics, Spain

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7 Responses to “UPDATED: Zapatero wins Spanish election”

Spain election results live | thebadrash.com on March 9th, 2008 8:31 pm

[...] As I mentioned in my last post, thanks to a cool widget from the Soitu.es website, here you should be able to follow the results of the Spanish elections as they come in. UPDATED results also here. [...]

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Keefieboy on March 9th, 2008 9:15 pm

Is this it? The widget says only 11.9% of the votes have been counted…

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Tom on March 9th, 2008 9:19 pm

Yeah I reckon that's the final result. I'll try to keep updating the page as results come in (and as I eat some tortilla and pa amb tomaquet).

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Graeme on March 9th, 2008 9:55 pm

Looking good….and the widget is very impressive!

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Tom on March 9th, 2008 10:00 pm

yeah… well found!

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Graeme on March 9th, 2008 10:19 pm

For once Telemadrid is fun to watch

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Tom on March 9th, 2008 10:58 pm

Grr, I don't get that on my TDT.

Yes, it's a pretty good result for the PSOE and for Spain as a whole.

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