2024 Catalan regional election

2024 Catalan regional election

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All 135 seats in the Parliament of Catalonia 68 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered	5,754,987 2.3%
Turnout	3,183,137 (55.3%) 4.0 pp
First party Second party Third party   Leader Salvador Illa Carles Puigdemont Pere Aragonès Party PSC–PSOE Cat–Junts+ ERC Leader since 30 December 2020 21 March 2024 20 November 2020 Leader's seat Barcelona Barcelona Barcelona Last election 33 seats, 23.0% 32 seats, 20.1% 33 seats, 21.3% Seats won 42 35 20 Seat change 9 3 13 Popular vote 882,589 681,470 431,128 Percentage 28.0% 21.6% 13.7% Swing 5.0 pp 1.5 pp 7.6 pp   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Alejandro Fernández Ignacio Garriga Jéssica Albiach Party PP Vox Comuns Sumar Leader since 10 November 2018 10 August 2020 18 September 2018 Leader's seat Barcelona Barcelona Barcelona Last election 3 seats, 3.8% 11 seats, 7.7% 8 seats, 6.9%[a] Seats won 15 11 6 Seat change 12 0 2 Popular vote 347,170 251,096 184,297 Percentage 11.0% 8.0% 5.8% Swing 7.2 pp 0.3 pp 1.1 pp   Seventh party Eighth party Ninth party   Leader Laia Estrada Sílvia Orriols Carlos Carrizosa Party CUP–DT Aliança.cat Cs Leader since 25 March 2024 28 October 2020 19 August 2020 Leader's seat Barcelona Girona Barcelona (lost) Last election 9 seats, 6.7% Did not contest 6 seats, 5.6% Seats won 4 2 0 Seat change 5 2 6 Popular vote 129,059 119,149 22,947 Percentage 4.1% 3.8% 0.7% Swing 2.7 pp New party 4.9 pp
Election result by constituency
President before election Pere Aragonès ERC Elected President Salvador Illa PSC

The 2024 Catalan regional election was held on Sunday, 12 May 2024, to elect the 15th Parliament of the autonomous community of Catalonia. All 135 seats in the Parliament were up for election.

The coalition government formed by Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) and Together for Catalonia (Junts) had broken up in October 2022, with president Pere Aragonès having to rely in the support of the Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC) and In Common We Can (ECP) for stability. After the Catalan government failed to pass the regional budget in Parliament on 13 March 2024, as a result of differences with ECP over the Hard Rock mega resort, Aragonès announced a snap election for 12 May.

Salvador Illa's PSC secured a commanding victory in both votes and seats in a Catalan regional election for the first time in history, whereas support for Catalan nationalist parties in general—and for ERC and the Popular Unity Candidacy (CUP) in particular—collapsed, bringing their combined totals well below the absolute majority threshold for the first time since 1980. The conservative People's Party (PP) surged from three to 15 seats, benefiting from the wipeout of Citizens (Cs), whereas the far-right, pro-independence Catalan Alliance (Aliança.cat) party of Sílvia Orriols was able to secure parliamentary representation thanks to strong support in traditionally pro-independence strongholds. Illa was elected as new president on 8 August 2024 with the support of ERC and Comuns Sumar and amidst a failed attempt by Puigdemont to thwart his investiture by returning to Barcelona while evading Spanish and Catalan police forces.

The election outcome and Illa's election were widely seen as signaling the end of the Catalan independence process starting in 2012 and seeing at its height a major constitutional crisis in Spain and its subsequent trials.^[1][2] The conciliation policies carried out by the Spanish government of Pedro Sánchez, as well as the controversial amnesty law that was agreed for in the 2023 Spanish government formation process, were said to be among the factors that influenced the loss of the pro-independence majority.^[3]

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