2023 Spanish Election

Yesterday's election in Spain has resulted in no clear winner. Going into the election the opinion polls had suggested that the conservative People’s party (PP) would secure a comfortable win and would likely form a coalition government with the far-right Vox party.

After all the votes were counted however PP had won only 136 seats to the ruling left-wing PSOE’s 122 seats. The far-right Vox party actually saw a large reduction in its number of seats, down to 33 (from the 52 won in the last election). This means that it is likely that PP will struggle to form a working coalition (176 seats are needed to form an effective majority).

El Diaro has published an interactive map of the results. This map includes a choropleth view which colors each electoral area to show the party who won the most votes in the province. A cartogram view shows the actual number of seats won by each party in each electoral district. 

El Pais has also created an interactive map of the 2023 Spanish election. If you click on an electoral area on this map you can view a more detailed breakdown of the vote at the province and municipality levels. This allows you to view the number of seats won by each party in a province and also the percentage of votes cast for each party in each municipality area in the province. 

My favorite map so far of the 2023 election has been published by El Mundo. El Mundo's map shows the winning party in each municipality, which means it provides the best view of how each party performed across the country. The map includes an option to view a choropleth map for each individual party. The map also has an option to compare the 2023 Spanish election results with the results from 2019.