The conservative PP won 41.6 percent in Sunday's Andalusia election but lost its absolute majority, while the Socialist party achieved one of its worst results.
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Andalusia, Spain's most populous region, held regional elections on Sunday to choose its autonomous government and representatives. The conservative Partido Popular won the largest share of votes but fell short of maintaining its absolute majority in the regional parliament.
The PP secured 41.6 percent of the vote, according to official results. The party, which has governed Andalusia since 2019, lost the absolute majority it had held since 2022. PP candidate and acting regional president Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla obtained more than 1.7 million votes, marking the highest vote total the PP has ever received in Andalusia.
The far-right party Vox received 13.8 percent of the vote. Combined, the PP and Vox together garnered 55 percent of Andalusia's total vote, reflecting a broader rightward trend in Spanish electoral behavior.
The Socialist Party, represented by candidate María Jesús Montero, achieved one of its worst results in its history. Montero, until recently the minister of finance, served as a close collaborator of Spanish President Pedro Sánchez and held the number-two position in the party.
The Andalusia election is viewed through a national lens given the region's weight within Spain. The results reflect patterns observed in three other recent regional elections held in Extremadura, Aragón, and Castilla y León, where right-wing parties similarly captured more than half the vote.
These regional elections mark the beginning of an electoral cycle that, unless President Sánchez calls early elections, is expected to culminate during the European summer of 2027 with national parliamentary elections.
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