SPAIN

ELECTORAL SYSTEM
 
Chamber:
  Congreso de los Diputados
 
Electoral Law:
  16 June 1985
  Last amendment: 23/03/1995
 
Constituencies:
  - 50 multi-member (2 seats minimum per province, the rest allotted according to population) constituencies corresponding to the country's provinces
- 2 single-member constituencies (North African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla)
 
Voting System:
  - multi-member constituencies: blocked party lists and the d'Hondt system of proportional representation; each voter chooses one list of those made available in the constituency (province)
- single-member constituencies: simple majority vote
Vacancies are filled by the "next-in-line" candidate on the list of the same party which held the seat in question (or by substitutes in Ceuta and Melilla).
Voting is not compulsory.
 
Voter requirements:
  - age: 18 years
- Spanish citizenship
- full possession of political rights
 
Eligibility:
  Qualified electors
- age: 18 years
- Spanish citizenship
 
Incompatibilities:
  - certain high-ranking government, political and public posts
- members of the armed forces
- members of the assembly of an Autonomous Community
- members of an electoral committee (junta)
 
Candidacy requirements:
  - by duly registered political associations and federations, coalitions of the same, or by at least 0.1% (and no fewer than 500) of the constituency's registered electorate


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