2004 European Parliament election in Spain

2004 European Parliament election in Spain

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All 54[a] Spanish seats in the European Parliament
Opinion polls
Registered	34,706,044 2.6%
Turnout	15,666,491 (45.1%) 17.9 pp
First party Second party Third party   Leader Josep Borrell Jaime Mayor Oreja Ignasi Guardans Party PSOE PP Galeusca Alliance PES EPP–ED ELDR (ALDE) EPP Leader since 2 May 2004 22 April 2004 18 January 2004 Leader's seat Spain Spain Spain Last election 24 seats, 35.3% 27 seats, 39.7% 4 seats, 8.0%[b] Seats won 25 24 2 Seat change 1 3 2 Popular vote 6,741,112 6,393,192 798,816 Percentage 43.5% 41.2% 5.1% Swing 8.2 pp 1.5 pp 2.9 pp   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Willy Meyer Bernat Joan Alejandro Rojas-Marcos Party IU–ICV–EUiA Europe of the Peoples (2004) CE Alliance GUE/NGL Greens/EFA Greens/EFA ELDR (ALDE) Greens/EFA Leader since 8 May 2004 17 April 1999 2004 Leader's seat Spain Spain Spain Last election 4 seats, 6.5%[c] 2 seats, 1.1%[d] 2 seats, 3.4%[e] Seats won 2 1 0 Seat change 2 1 2 Popular vote 643,136 380,709 197,231 Percentage 4.1% 2.5% 1.3% Swing 2.4 pp 1.4 pp 2.1 pp
Winner strength by province Winner strength by autonomous community

The 2004 European Parliament election in Spain was held on Sunday, 13 June 2004, as part of the EU-wide election to elect the 6th European Parliament. All 54 seats allocated to Spain as per the Treaty of Nice were up for election.^[a]

The election saw a close race between the centre-left Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), which had accessed power earlier in April in the wake of the 11M train bombings leading up to the 14 March general election, and the centre-right People's Party (PP), still reeling from its election defeat. It marked the only time the PSOE emerged as the largest party in a European Parliament election in Spain between 1989 and 2019. It also saw a considerable drop in turnout down to 45.1%, the lowest up until that point—a figure that would be outmatched by the turnout in the two subsequent European Parliament elections, 2009 (44.9%) and 2014 (43.8%).
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