European election results
Result European Elections in Spain | Voting, counting and number of votes by party on 9J.
It is Sunday June 9 The citizens of Spain will choose the 61 MEPs who will represent them in the European Parliament. Although the process is similar in some ways to that of a general election, the European elections have some news that not everyone knows.
One of the most important aspects to take into account is the use of the single circumscription.
What is the single constituency?
The fact that the electoral district is unique in Spain means that citizens will be able to vote for the same lists, regardless of where they vote. That is to say, The voters will elect their representatives from a single list for the entire country. Therefore, as it is not divided by provinces, all votes have the same value for Spanish territory.
This means that, for example, a citizen of Seville can vote for Junts or the PNV. This is not possible, for example, in general elections, where candidates run from their respective constituencies.
What is the Ley dHondt
The Ley dHondta system devised in 1878 by Victor dHondt, a well-known Belgian jurist, is a major average method through which the allocation of seats is carried out in systems of proportional representation by electoral lists. This electoral formula criterion is included within the Organic Law of the General Electoral Regime to materialize proportional representation.
How the dHondt Law works
This regulation dictates that distribute the seats of a province among the parties that have presented themselves and that they have obtained votes in that province. After the recount, the total number of votes obtained by each party is divided by the number of seats distributed in the province. That is, the total number of votes for each formation is divide by 2, by 3, by 4, by 5 and so on until you reach the number of seats. Once this division is made, the seats are awarded to the largest quotients.
Furthermore, it should be noted that those political parties that do not have obtained at least 5% of the valid votesin the case of municipal and some regional elections, they do not enter the division. On the contrary, the threshold decreases to 3% when it comes to general elections. In European elections, there is no minimum threshold.
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