Seville (Senate constituency)

For the Congress of Deputies constituency, see Seville (Congress of Deputies constituency). For the Parliament of Andalusia constituency, see Seville (Parliament of Andalusia constituency).

Seville is one of the 59 constituencies (Spanish: circunscripciones) represented in the Senate of Spain, the upper chamber of the Spanish parliament, the Cortes Generales. The constituency elects four senators. Its boundaries correspond to those of the Spanish province of Seville. The electoral system uses an open list partial block voting, with electors voting for individual candidates instead of parties. Electors can vote for up to three candidates.

Seville
Senate of Spain Electoral constituency
Location of Seville within Spain
Province	Seville
Autonomous community	Andalusia
Population	1,967,746 (2024)[1]
Electorate	1,564,082 (2023)
Major settlements	Seville, Dos Hermanas, Alcalá de Guadaíra, Utrera, Écija
Current constituency
Created	1977
Seats	4
Member(s)	PSOE (3)   PP (1)

Electoral system

The constituency was created as per the Political Reform Act 1977 and was first contested in the 1977 general election. The Act provided for the provinces of Spain to be established as multi-member districts in the Senate of Spain,^[2] with this regulation being maintained under the Spanish Constitution of 1978.^[3] Additionally, the Constitution requires for any modification of the provincial limits to be approved under an organic law, needing an absolute majority in the Cortes Generales.^[4]

Voting is on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprises all nationals over 18 years of age and in full enjoyment of their political rights.^[5] The only exception was in 1977, when this was limited to nationals over 21 years of age and in full enjoyment of their political and civil rights.^[6][7] Amendments to the electoral law in 2011 required for Spaniards abroad to apply for voting before being permitted to vote, a system known as "begged" or expat vote (Spanish: Voto rogado),^[8][9] which was abolished in 2022.^[10] 208 seats are elected using an open list partial block voting system, with electors voting for individual candidates instead of parties. In constituencies electing four seats, electors can vote for up to three candidates; in those with two or three seats, for up to two candidates; and for one candidate in single-member districts. Each of the 47 peninsular provinces is allocated four seats, whereas for insular provinces, such as the Balearic and Canary Islands, districts are the islands themselves, with the larger—Mallorca, Gran Canaria and Tenerife—being allocated three seats each, and the smaller—Menorca, Ibiza–Formentera, Fuerteventura, La Gomera and El Hierro (which comprised a single constituency only for the 1977 election), Lanzarote and La Palma—one each. Ceuta and Melilla elect two seats each.^{[2][3][11][12]} Until 1985, the law also provided for by-elections to fill Senate seats vacated up to two years into the legislature.^[13]

The electoral law allows for parties and federations registered in the interior ministry, coalitions and groupings of electors to present lists of candidates. Parties and federations intending to form a coalition ahead of an election are required to inform the relevant Electoral Commission within ten days of the election call—fifteen before 1985—whereas groupings of electors need to secure the signature of at least one percent of the electorate in the constituencies for which they seek election—one permille of the electorate, with a compulsory minimum of 500 signatures, until 1985—disallowing electors from signing for more than one list of candidates. Also since 2011, parties, federations or coalitions that have not obtained a mandate in either chamber of the Cortes at the preceding election are required to secure the signature of at least 0.1 percent of electors in the aforementioned constituencies.^[14][15]

Senators

Senators for Seville 1977–
Key to parties   PSOE   Cs   UCD   PP   CP   AP
Legislature	Election	Distribution
Constituent	1977	3 1
1st	1979	3 1
	1980	3 1
2nd	1982	3 1
3rd	1986	3 1
4th	1989	3 1
5th	1993	3 1
6th	1996	3 1
7th	2000	3 1
8th	2004	3 1
9th	2008	3 1
10th	2011	3 1
11th	2015	3 1
12th	2016	3 1
13th	2019 (Apr)	3 1
14th	2019 (Nov)	3 1
15th	2023	3 1

Elections

2023 general election

Summary of the 23 July 2023 Senate of Spain election results in Seville

Parties and alliances		Popular vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Total	+/−
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	1,112,663	37.58	–1.98	3	±0
	People's Party (PP)	1,037,781	35.05	+10.10	1	±0
	Unite Andalusia (Sumar)1	399,017	13.48	–2.73	0	±0
	Vox (Vox)	338,837	11.44	+5.34	0	±0
	Animalist Party with the Environment (PACMA)2	38,356	1.30	–0.57	0	±0
	For a Fairer World (PUM+J)	4,374	0.15	+0.02	0	±0
	Communist Party of the Workers of Spain (PCTE)	3,361	0.11	New	0	±0
	Zero Cuts (Recortes Cero)	3,183	0.11	–0.07	0	±0
	Walking Together (CJ)	2,387	0.08	New	0	±0
	Spanish Phalanx of the CNSO (FE–JONS)	2,040	0.07	New	0	±0
Blank ballots[a]		18,819	1.82	–0.53
Total		2,960,818			4	±0
Valid votes		1,033,464	97.19	+0.44
Invalid votes		29,836	2.81	–0.44
Votes cast / turnout		1,063,300	67.98	–0.62
Abstentions		500,782	32.02	+0.62
Registered voters		1,564,082
Sources[16]
Footnotes: 1 Unite Andalusia results are compared to the combined totals of United We Can and More Country–Andalusia in the November 2019 election. 2 Animalist Party with the Environment results are compared to Animalist Party Against Mistreatment of Animals totals in the November 2019 election.

November 2019 general election

Summary of the 10 November 2019 Senate of Spain election results in Seville

Parties and alliances		Popular vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Total	+/−
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	1,088,383	39.56	+1.95	3	±0
	People's Party (PP)	686,498	24.95	+8.46	1	+1
	United We Can (Podemos–IULV–CA)	408,916	14.86	–0.64	0	±0
	Citizens–Party of the Citizenry (Cs)	252,848	9.19	–7.51	0	–1
	Vox (Vox)	167,787	6.10	–4.02	0	±0
	Animalist Party Against Mistreatment of Animals (PACMA)	51,485	1.87	–0.16	0	±0
	More Country–Andalusia (Más País–Andalucía)	37,193	1.35	New	0	±0
	Andalusia by Herself (AxSí)	22,348	0.81	+0.23	0	±0
	Zero Cuts–Green Group (Recortes Cero–GV)	5,050	0.18	+0.02	0	±0
	For a Fairer World (PUM+J)	3,494	0.13	±0.00	0	±0
	Communist Party of the Andalusian Party (PCPA)	3,125	0.11	New	0	±0
Blank ballots[a]		24,112	2.35	+0.40
Total		2,751,239			4	±0
Valid votes		1,027,178	96.75	–0.20
Invalid votes		34,500	3.25	+0.20
Votes cast / turnout		1,061,678	68.60	–3.45
Abstentions		486,066	31.40	+3.45
Registered voters		1,547,744
Sources[16]

April 2019 general election

Summary of the 28 April 2019 Senate of Spain election results in Seville

Parties and alliances		Popular vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Total	+/−
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	1,161,476	37.61		3	±0
	Citizens–Party of the Citizenry (Cs)	515,663	16.70		1	+1
	People's Party (PP)	509,091	16.49		0	–1
	United We Can (Podemos–IULV–CA–Equo)	478,648	15.50		0	±0
	Vox (Vox)	312,573	10.12		0	±0
	Animalist Party Against Mistreatment of Animals (PACMA)	62,554	2.03		0	±0
	Andalusia by Herself (AxSí)	18,004	0.58	New	0	±0
	Zero Cuts–Green Group (Recortes Cero–GV)	4,826	0.16		0	±0
	For a Fairer World (PUM+J)	4,118	0.13	New	0	±0
Blank ballots[a]		21,016	1.95
Total		3,087,969			4	±0
Valid votes		1,078,679	96.95
Invalid votes		33,970	3.05
Votes cast / turnout		1,112,649	72.05
Abstentions		431,531	27.95
Registered voters		1,544,180
Sources[16]

2016 general election

Summary of the 26 June 2016 Senate of Spain election results in Seville

Parties and alliances		Popular vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Total	+/−
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	997,475	34.93		3	±0
	People's Party (PP)	859,404	30.09		1	±0
	United We Can for Andalusia (Podemos–IU–Equo)1	562,991	19.71		0	±0
	Citizens–Party of the Citizenry (C's)	322,659	11.30		0	±0
	Animalist Party Against Mistreatment of Animals (PACMA)	57,525	2.01		0	±0
	Vox (Vox)	9,254	0.32		0	±0
	Zero Cuts–Green Group (Recortes Cero–GV)	7,358	0.26		0	±0
	Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD)	5,644	0.20		0	±0
	Spanish Phalanx of the CNSO (FE–JONS)	3,890	0.14		0	±0
	Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain (PCPE)	2,590	0.09		0	±0
Blank ballots[a]		27,015	2.69
Total		2,855,805			4	±0
Valid votes		1,003,559	97.25
Invalid votes		28,342	2.75
Votes cast / turnout		1,031,901	67.36
Abstentions		499,905	32.64
Registered voters		1,531,806
Sources[16]
Footnotes: 1 United We Can results are compared to the combined totals of We Can and United Left/Greens–Assembly for Andalusia–Popular Unity in Common in the 2015 election.

2015 general election

2011 general election

2008 general election

2004 general election

2000 general election

1996 general election

1993 general election

1989 general election

1986 general election

1982 general election

1980 by-election

1979 general election

1977 general election

Notes

1. The percentage of blank ballots is calculated over the official number of valid votes cast, irrespective of the total number of votes shown as a result of adding up the individual results for each party.

References

1. "Real Decreto 1210/2024, de 28 de noviembre, por el que se declaran oficiales las cifras de población resultantes de la revisión del Padrón municipal referidas al 1 de enero de 2024". Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 December 2024.
2. Law 1/1977 (1977), trans. prov. 1.
3. Const. Esp. (1978), tit. III, ch. I, art. 69.
4. Const. Esp. (1978), tit. VIII, ch. II, art. 141.
5. LOREG (1985), tit. I, ch. I, art. 2.
6. RDL 20/1977 (1977), tit. I, art. 2.
7. Carreras de Odriozola & Tafunell Sambola 2005, p. 1077.
8. LOREG (1985), tit. I, ch. VI, art. 75.
9. Reig Pellicer, Naiara (16 December 2015). "Spanish elections: Begging for the right to vote". cafebabel.co.uk. Retrieved 17 July 2017.
10. Araque Conde, Pilar (8 June 2022). "El Congreso acaba con el voto rogado: diez años de trabas burocráticas para los residentes en el extranjero". Público (in Spanish). Madrid. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
11. RDL 20/1977 (1977), tit. II, ch. II, art. 19 & 21.
12. LOREG (1985), tit. II, ch. III, art. 162 & 165–166.
13. RDL 20/1977 (1977), tit. III, art. 29.
14. RDL 20/1977 (1977), tit. IV, art. 30–31 & 34.
15. LOREG (1985), tit. I, ch. VI, art. 44 & tit. II, ch. V, art. 169.
16. "Elecciones celebradas. Resultados electorales". Ministry of the Interior (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 December 2024.

Bibliography

• Ley 1/1977, de 4 de enero, para la Reforma Política (Law 1/1977). Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish). Vol. 4. 4 January 1977. ISSN 0212-033X. BOE-A-1977-165. Retrieved 27 December 2016.
• Real Decreto-ley 20/1977, de 18 de marzo, sobre Normas Electorales (Royal Decree-Law 20/1977). Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish). Vol. 70. 18 March 1977. ISSN 0212-033X. BOE-A-1977-7445. Retrieved 27 December 2016.
• Constitución Española (Spanish Constitution). Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish). Vol. 311. 29 December 1978 [latest version]. ISSN 0212-033X. BOE-A-1978-31229. Retrieved 24 December 2024.
• Ley Orgánica 5/1985, de 19 de junio, del Régimen Electoral General (Organic Law 5/1985). Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish). Vol. 147. 19 June 1985 [latest version]. ISSN 0212-033X. BOE-A-1985-11672. Retrieved 24 December 2024.
• Carreras de Odriozola, Albert; Tafunell Sambola, Xavier (2005) [1989]. Estadísticas históricas de España, siglos XIX-XX (PDF) (in Spanish). Vol. 1 (II ed.). Bilbao: Fundación BBVA. pp. 1072–1097. ISBN 84-96515-00-1. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2015.

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