The 2009 European Parliament election in Spain was held on Sunday, 7 June 2009, as part of the EU-wide election to elect the 7th European Parliament. All 50 seats allocated to Spain as per the Treaty of Nice—54 after the Treaty of Lisbon came into force on 1 December 2011—were up for election.

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2009 European Parliament election in Spain

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All 54[lower-alpha 1] Spanish seats in the European Parliament
Opinion polls
Registered	35,492,567 2.3%
Turnout	15,935,147 (44.9%) 0.2 pp
First party Second party Third party   Leader Jaime Mayor Oreja Juan Fernando López Aguilar Ramon Tremosa Party PP PSOE CEU Alliance EPP PES ALDE EPP Leader since 22 April 2004 22 November 2008 24 January 2009 Leader's seat Spain Spain Spain Last election 24 seats, 41.2% 25 seats, 43.5% 2 seats, 5.2%[lower-alpha 2] Seats won 24 23 3 Seat change 0 2 1 Popular vote 6,670,377 6,141,784 808,246 Percentage 42.1% 38.8% 5.1% Swing 0.9 pp 4.7 pp 0.1 pp   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Willy Meyer Francisco Sosa Wagner Oriol Junqueras Party IU UPyD Europe of the Peoples–Greens Alliance GUE/NGL Greens/EFA NI Greens/EFA Leader since 8 May 2004 3 September 2008 21 February 2009 Leader's seat Spain Spain Spain Last election 2 seats, 4.1% Did not contest 1 seat, 3.4%[lower-alpha 3] Seats won 2 1 1 Seat change 0 1 0 Popular vote 588,248 451,866 394,938 Percentage 3.7% 2.9% 2.5% Swing 0.4 pp New party 0.9 pp
Winner strength by province Winner strength by autonomous community

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The election saw the first national victory for the People's Party (PP) since the 2000 Spanish general election, scoring 42.1% of the share in its best showing in a European Parliament election to date, as well as its third best in a national election overall. The ruling Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), on the other hand, fell to second place with 38.8% of the votes after a cycle of electoral victories starting in 2004. As in the previous election, the result was close, as both parties came within three percentage points of each other. The Coalition for Europe (CEU), the alliance of regionalist and peripheral nationalist parties that came to succeed the late Galeusca–Peoples of Europe coalition, remained in third place with 5.1% of the votes, whereas United Left (IU)—which ran under The Left banner—saw its worst showing in a nationwide election up to that point, barely surpassing 3.7% of the share. On the other hand, the new Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD) party had a strong performance by comfortably doubling its result from the 2008 Spanish general election, being the only national party that saw a net gain of votes compared to that electoral contest. The abertzale left-supported Internationalist Initiative–Solidarity among Peoples (II–SP) candidacy, which had been initially banned from running by the Supreme Court of Spain but later allowed by the Constitutional Court on the grounds that there was not enough evidence of its ties to the ETA terrorist group,^[1][2] scored 1.1% of the votes nationwide but failed to secure any parliamentary representation.

As the 2009 election was held under the provisions of the Treaty of Nice, Spain was allocated 50 MEP seats which, come Election Day, were distributed as follows: PP 23, PSOE 21, CEU 2, IU–ICV 2, UPyD 1 and EdP–V 1. After the Treaty of Lisbon came into force on 1 December 2011, Spain's delegation was increased to 54, granting additional seats to the PSOE (two) and to PP and CEU (one each) according to their June 2009 election results.

50 members of the European Parliament were allocated to Spain as per the Treaty of Nice.^{[lower-alpha 1]} Voting was on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprised all nationals and resident non-national European citizens over 18 years of age and in full enjoyment of their political rights.^[3][4]

All seats were elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with no electoral threshold being applied in order to be entitled to enter seat distribution. Seats were allocated to a single multi-member constituency comprising the entire national territory.^[3] The use of the D'Hondt method might result in an effective threshold depending on the district magnitude.^[5]

The electoral law allowed for parties and federations registered in the interior ministry, coalitions and groupings of electors to present lists of candidates. Parties and federations intending to form a coalition ahead of an election were required to inform the relevant Electoral Commission within ten days of the election call. In order to be entitled to run, parties, federations, coalitions and groupings of electors needed to secure the signature of at least 15,000 registered electors; this requirement could be lifted and replaced through the signature of at least 50 elected officials—deputies, senators, MEPs or members from the legislative assemblies of autonomous communities or from local city councils. Electors and elected officials were disallowed from signing for more than one list of candidates.^[3]

Below is a list of the main parties and electoral alliances which contested the election:

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Candidacy		Parties and alliances	Leading candidate		Ideology	Previous result		Ref.
						Votes (%)	Seats
	PSOE	List Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC)		Juan Fernando López Aguilar	Social democracy	43.46%	25	[7]
	PP	List People's Party (PP)		Jaime Mayor Oreja	Conservatism Christian democracy	41.21%	24	[8] [9]
	CEU	List Convergence and Union (CiU) Basque Nationalist Party (EAJ/PNV) Canarian Coalition (CC) Valencian Nationalist Bloc (Bloc) Majorcan Union (UM) Andalusian Party (PA) Menorcan Union (UMe) Democratic Convergence of La Franja (CDF)		Ramon Tremosa	Peripheral nationalism	5.22%[lower-alpha 2]	2	[10] [11]
	IU–ICV	List United Left (IU) Initiative for Catalonia Greens–United and Alternative Left (ICV–EUiA) Galician Left Alternative (AGE) Left (I–E) The Greens (LV) Building the Left–Socialist Alternative (CLI–AS) Left Initiative–Awake (EKI–Iratzarri)		Willy Meyer	Socialism Communism	4.15%	2	[12] [13]
	EdP–V	List Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG) Aralar (Aralar) The Greens (LV) Basque Solidarity (EA) Aragonese Union (CHA) Agreement for Majorca (ExM) Party of El Bierzo (PB)		Oriol Junqueras	Peripheral nationalism	3.44%[lower-alpha 3]	1	[14]
	UPyD	List Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD)		Francisco Sosa Wagner	Social liberalism Radical centrism	Did not contest		[15]

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The table below lists voting intention estimates in reverse chronological order, showing the most recent first and using the dates when the survey fieldwork was done, as opposed to the date of publication. Where the fieldwork dates are unknown, the date of publication is given instead. The highest percentage figure in each polling survey is displayed with its background shaded in the leading party's colour. If a tie ensues, this is applied to the figures with the highest percentages. The "Lead" column on the right shows the percentage-point difference between the parties with the highest percentages in a given poll. When available, seat projections are also displayed below the voting estimates in a smaller font.

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Polling firm/Commissioner	Fieldwork date	Sample size	Turnout			CEU		EdPV			Lead
2009 EP election	7 Jun 2009	—	44.9	38.8 21	42.1 23	5.1 2	3.7 2	2.5 1	2.9 1	1.1 0	3.3
PSOE[p 1]	5 Jun 2009	?	45–50	42.4 23	42.7 23	–	3.6 1	–	–	–	0.3
TNS Demoscopia/Antena 3[p 2]	28 May 2009	?	?	39.7 21/22	42.4 22/23	4.8 2	3.9 2	2.4 1	3.1 1	0.8 0	2.7
Metroscopia/El País[p 3]	27–28 May 2009	1,000	45	39.3 21	43.0 22	5.0 2	4.1 2	3.9 2	3.0 1	–	3.7
NC Report/La Razón[p 4]	26–28 May 2009	1,000	?	40.2 21	43.2 23	4.7 2	3.9 2	2.3 1	3.0 1	–	3.0
Sigma Dos/El Mundo[p 5][p 6][p 7]	26–28 May 2009	1,000	39–44	40.6 21/22	42.8 23/24	4.0 2	3.4 1	2.7 1	2.6 1	–	2.2
DYM/ABC[p 8]	25–28 May 2009	1,040	?	38.7 21	40.9 23	5.4 2	3.3 1	1.8 1	2.2 1	–	2.2
Noxa/La Vanguardia[p 9]	25–28 May 2009	1,000	?	42.5 23	40.9 22	4.9 2	3.2 1	2.2 1	3.3 1	–	1.6
Obradoiro de Socioloxía/Público[p 1][p 10]	11–27 May 2009	2,402	?	40.0 21	42.6 23	3.8 2	4.0 2	2.7 1	2.8 1	0.9 0	2.6
PSOE[p 11][p 12]	25 May 2009	2,500	45–48	42.7 23	42.5 23	–	? 1/2	–	? 0	–	0.2
NC Report/La Razón[p 13][p 14]	18–21 May 2009	1,000	40.1	41.0 21/22	43.7 23	4.5 2	3.7 1/2	2.0 1	2.9 1	–	2.7
CIS[p 15][p 16]	29 Apr–17 May 2009	4,692	?	42.8 23	42.2 23	5.1 2	3.1 1	3.6 1	1.3 0	–	0.6
GESOP/El Periódico[p 17]	11–15 May 2009	1,500	?	39.0 21	43.0 23	4.2 2	4.7 2	3.6 1	2.6 1	–	4.0
INVESOP/COPE[p 18]	8 May 2009	1,700	58	40.7 22	44.0 23	? 2	? 1	? 1	? 1	–	3.3
			40	41.1 22	45.1 24	? 2	? 1	? 0	? 1	–	4.0
NC Report/La Razón[p 19]	4–8 May 2009	1,000	42.9	40.0 21	42.8 22/23	4.6 2	5.1 2	2.2 1	3.4 1/2	–	2.8
Obradoiro de Socioloxía/Público[p 20][p 21]	14 Apr–8 May 2009	?	?	40.0 21/22	44.0 23/24	4.0 2	3.5 1	1.7 0	3.7 1/2	–	4.0
NC Report/La Razón[p 22]	20 Apr 2009	?	42.5	39.0 21	43.3 23	4.8 2	5.3 2	2.2 1	3.2 1	–	4.3
Sigma Dos/El Mundo[p 23][p 24]	3–8 Apr 2009	900	?	37.9 20/21	42.3 22/23	4.3 2	5.0 2	2.2 1	4.4 2	–	4.4
Obradoiro de Socioloxía/Público[p 25]	10 Mar–2 Apr 2009	3,204	?	39.0 21	43.5 23	4.8 2	4.9 2	1.9 1	3.2 1	–	4.5
2004 EP election	13 Jun 2004	—	45.1	43.5 25	41.2 24	5.1 2	4.1 2	2.5 1	–	–	2.3

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