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1979 Spanish general election — Wikipedia (en)

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A general election was held in Spain on 1 March 1979 to elect the members of the 1st Cortes Generales under the Spanish Constitution of 1978. All 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies were up for election, as well as all 208 seats in the Senate. This was the first election held under the new constitution that had been approved in a referendum on 6 December 1978 and which had lowered the voting age from 21 to 18, resulting in an increase of the electoral roll by three million people. The Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) remained the largest party, winning 168 of the 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies and 119 of the 208 seats in the Senate. The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), which had merged with the People's Socialist Party (PSP) and was widely expected to make large gains—with some opinion polls predicting a narrow win—fell short of expectations and lost ground when compared to the combined totals for the PSOE–PSP alliance in the 1977 election. The Communist Party of Spain obtained the best result in its history, whereas Manuel Fraga's Democratic Coalition (CD)—an electoral bloc formed by the People's Alliance, the Liberal Citizens Action and the Progressive Democratic Party—lost nearly half of its seats. The election would also see the best showing of the far-right in Spain until the April 2019 election, as Blas Piñar-led National Union would secure one seat with 2.1% of the vote share. As a result of the election, Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez went on to form a UCD minority government, depending on support from the CD and other minor parties such as the Socialist Party of Andalusia–Andalusian Party, the Regionalist Aragonese Party and the Navarrese People's Union.

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