Spanish general election, 1986

1982 ←

22 June 1986

→ 1989

All 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies and 208 (of 254) seats in the Senate 176 seats needed for a majority in the Congress of Deputies

Opinion polls
Registered	29,117,613 8.5%
Turnout	20,524,858 (70.5%) 9.5 pp
	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Felipe González	Manuel Fraga	Adolfo Suárez
Party	PSOE	AP–PDP–PL	CDS
Leader since	13 October 1974	9 October 1976	29 July 1982
Leader's seat	Madrid	Madrid	Madrid
Last election	202 seats, 48.1%	107 seats, 26.4%	2 seats, 2.9%
Seats won	184	105	19
Seat change	18	2	17
Popular vote	8,901,718	5,247,677	1,861,912
Percentage	44.1%	26.0%	9.2%
Swing	4.0 pp	0.4 pp	6.3 pp

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party

Leader	Miquel Roca	Gerardo Iglesias	Iñaki Anasagasti
Party	PRD–CiU–CG	IU	EAJ/PNV
Leader since	12 March 1980	10 December 1982	1986
Leader's seat	Barcelona	Madrid	Biscay
Last election	12 seats, 3.7%	4 seats, 4.2%	8 seats, 1.9%
Seats won	19	7	6
Seat change	7	3	2
Popular vote	1,288,768	935,504	309,610
Percentage	6.4%	4.6%	1.5%
Swing	2.7 pp	0.4 pp	0.4 pp

Provincial results map for the Congress of Deputies

Prime Minister before election

Felipe González
PSOE

Elected Prime Minister

Felipe González
PSOE

The 1986 Spanish general election was held on Sunday, 22 June 1986, to elect the 3rd Cortes Generales of the Kingdom of Spain. All 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies were up for election, as well as 208 of 254 seats in the Senate.

The election was held after the referendum on Spanish membership in NATO in March 1986 had resulted in a surprising win for the 'In' camp headed by Prime Minister Felipe González. Reinforced from the referendum result, the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) sought to take advantage of the favorable political situation. The election resulted in the PSOE winning a second consecutive—albeit diminished—majority with 184 out of 350 seats. Its immediate competitor, Manuel Fraga's People's Coalition, an electoral alliance formed by People's Alliance (AP), the People's Democratic Party (PDP) and the Liberal Party (PL), remained stagnant with a similar result to the one obtained in 1982 by the AP–PDP coalition. The disappointing election result caused the Coalition to break apart shortly afterwards.

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