16th Congress of Deputies

Moondragon21Congress of Deputies from 2026 Spanish general election October 2026 25em 16th Congress of Deputies Congreso de los Diputados (España) 14.jpg Congress of Deputies Palacio de las Cortes 29 November 2026 Third government of Pedro Sánchez December 2026 15th congreso.es Deputies 350 President TBD First Vice-President TBD Second Vice-President TBD Third Vice-President TBD Fourth Vice-President TBD First Secretary TBD Second Secretary TBD Third Secretary TBD Fourth Secretary TBD List of members of the 16th Congress of Deputies The 16th Congress of Deputies will be a meeting of the Congress of Deputies, the lower house of the Spanish es Cortes Generales no, with the membership determined by the results of the general election held on 29 November 2026.Jones Sam Kassam Ashifa 2026-10-05 Spain’s PM Pedro Sánchez calls snap election after housing law fails to pass https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/05/spain-prime-minister-pedro-sanchez-snap-election-housing-crisis 2026-10-05 The Guardian en-GB 0261-3077 The congress will meet for the first time in December 2026. According to the Constitution of Spain the maximum legislative term of the congress is 4 years from the preceding election. 350 members of the Congress of Deputies were elected in the 2026 Spanish general election to sit in the 16th Cortes Generales. Background Election process The members of the Congress (currently 350) are directly elected by the people. The Congress of Deputies has a minimum of 300 and a maximum of 400 seats, with electoral provisions fixing its size at 350. Of these, 348 are elected in 50 multi-member constituencies corresponding to the provinces of Spain—each of which is assigned an initial minimum of two seats and the remaining 248 distributed in proportion to population—using the D'Hondt method and closed-list proportional voting, with a three percent-threshold of valid votes (including blank ballots) in each constituency. The remaining two seats are allocated to Ceuta and Melilla as single-member districts elected by plurality voting.Spanish Constitution 1978 Article 68; LOREG 1985 Articles 162–164. The use of this electoral method may result in a higher effective threshold depending on district magnitude and vote distribution.Gallagher Michael 30 July 2012 http://www.tcd.ie/Political_Science/staff/michael_gallagher/ElSystems/Docts/effthresh.php Effective threshold in electoral systems Trinity College Dublin Dublin https://web.archive.org/web/20170730092518/http://www.tcd.ie/Political_Science/staff/michael_gallagher/ElSystems/Docts/effthresh.php 22 July 2017 30 July 2017 This allocation is heavily weighted in favour of small provinces; as one MP from the most populated province Madrid, with its 7.2 million people, represents 190,000 citizens, and one MP from Soria, with 90,000 inhabitants, represents 45,000 citizens.2017-09-01 The Most Populated Provinces in Spain https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-most-populated-provinces-of-spain.html 2023-08-23 WorldAtlas en-US Election The 16th Spanish general election under the 1978 Constitution will be held on 29 November 2026. AllianceVotes%Seats+/−PP0,00.000±0PSOE0,00.000±0 Vox0,00.000±0 Broad Front (FA)0,00.000±0 ERC–Sob–ERPV0,00.000±0 EH Bildu0,00.000±0 JxCat–Junts0,00.000±0 EAJ/PNV0,00.000±0 Others/blanks0,00.000±0 Total0,00.000±0 History The new Congress will meet for the first time on December 2026 and elected a new President of the Congress of Deputies. Other members of the Bureau of the Congress were also elected First Vice-President; Second Vice-President; Third Vice-President; Fourth Vice-President; First Secretary; Second Secretary; Third Secretary; and Fourth Secretary. auto PresidentJunta Preparatoria y Sesión Constitutiva Diario de Sesiones del Senado - Pleno 21 May 2019 XIII 1 11–14 http://www.senado.es/legis13/publicaciones/pdf/senado/ds/DS_P_13_1.PDF 4 June 2019 Cortes Generales Madrid, Spain esEl federalista Manuel Cruz, elegido nuevo presidente del Senado https://www.lavanguardia.com/politica/20190521/462388536492/manuel-cruz-presidente-senado-cristina-narbona-pio-garcia-escudero.html 4 June 2019 La Vanguardia 21 May 2019 Barcelona, Spain esCasillas Bayo Juan Manuel Cruz, elegido nuevo presidente del Senado https://www.abc.es/espana/abci-manuel-cruz-elegido-nuevo-presidente-senado-201905211100_noticia.html 4 June 2019 ABC 21 May 2019 Madrid, Spain es Candidate Votes 15 TBD — 0 15 TBD — 0 Blank ballots 0 Invalid ballots 0 Absentees 0 Vacant 0 Total 267 2em Vice-President Candidate Votes 15 TBD — 0 15 TBD — 0 15 TBD — 0 15 TBD — 0 15 TBD — 0 15 TBD — 0 Blank ballots 0 Invalid ballots 0 Absentees 0 Vacant 0 Total 267 2em Secretary Candidate Votes 15 TBD — 0 15 TBD — 0 15 TBD — 0 15 TBD — 0 15 TBD — 0 15 TBD — 0 Blank ballots 0 Invalid ballots 0 Absentees 0 Vacant 0 Total 0 Aftermath and Government formation Government formation Deaths, disqualifications, resignations and suspensions The 16th Congress has seen the following deaths, disqualifications, resignations and suspensions: Elected senators Appointed senators Members by constituency NameConstituencyNo.VotesPartyAllianceGroupTook officeLeft officeNotes See also 16th Cortes Generales 16th Senate of Spain Notes References Sources The Spanish Constitution https://www.boe.es/legislacion/documentos/ConstitucionINGLES.pdf Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado 3 June 2024 English 1978 Spanish Constitution 1978 y Ley Orgánica 5/1985, de 19 de junio, del Régimen Electoral General Organic Law 5/1985 19 June 1985 Official State Gazette BOE-A-1985-11672 es https://www.boe.es/buscar/act.php?id=BOE-A-1985-11672 6 August 2026 LOREG 1985 Otras Disposiciones: Junta Electoral Central – Elecciones generales. Proclamación de candidaturas Boletín Oficial del Estado 2 April 2019 79 34184–34462 https://boe.es/boe/dias/2019/04/02/pdfs/BOE-A-2019-4902.pdf 27 May 2019 Government of Spain Madrid, Spain es 0212-033X Otras Disposiciones: Junta Electoral Central – Elecciones generales. Resultados Boletín Oficial del Estado 30 May 2019 129 57384–57391 https://boe.es/boe/dias/2019/05/30/pdfs/BOE-A-2019-8070.pdf 30 May 2019 Government of Spain Madrid, Spain es 0212-033X Category:2026 establishments in Spain Category:2026 disestablishments in Spain Category:Congress of Deputies (Spain) Category:Members of the Congress of Deputies (Spain)