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In this way, one of Pablo Casado's great supporters within the party, Javier Maroto, is left out of Congress. While the independence forces are reinforced. ERC achieves its best results by obtaining 15 deputies, PNV adds 6 and Bildu achieves 4 seats. Participation has been very high: it has reached 75% Queue at a polling station in Madrid in the elections. One of the keys to these general elections was the mobilization of voters. Traditionally, high participation in general elections in Spain is usually related to a better result for the left. However, in these elections there were several factors that made this maxim not entirely clear.

Already at 2:00 p.m. when the first participation data were known, the 41.49% registered was four and a half points higher than the participation registered in 2016 when it stood at 36.87%. Finally, participation SW Business Directory stood at 75.78%, a figure that shows that almost 23.9 million Spaniards have voted in these elections , which represents an increase of 9 basis points compared to the participation of 66.5% of the last elections. It has been especially striking how participation has skyrocketed in some autonomous communities such as Catalonia with a rise of 14 basis points until participation stands at 77.5%.



The Senate returns to the hands of the PSOE and is left without deputies from Unidas Podemos A woman votes in the 2019 general election. The Senate returns to the hands of the PSOE . Pedro Sánchez's party has 123 senators compared to the 43 he currently had in the chamber . While the PP remains with 55 senators compared to the majority it now had with 130 senators. Unidas Podemos is left without representation in this body. During this legislature we have seen the importance of this chamber in being able to approve or veto political decisions such as the application of article 155 or the approval of the spending ceiling.