Socialist Party of the Valencian Country

Socialist Party of the Valencian Country
Partit Socialista del País Valencià
Secretary-General Ximo Puig
Founded 1978
Headquarters C/ Blanqueries, 4
Valencia, Valencian Community
Ideology Social democracy
Political position Centre-left
National affiliation Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
Valencian Courts
23 / 99
Congress of Deputies
6 / 33

(Valencian seats)

Website
www.socialistesvalencians.org

The Socialist Party of the Valencian Country or PSPV (Valencian: Partit Socialista del País Valencià; Spanish: Partido Socialista del País Valenciano) was a small nationalist and leftist Valencian party, mostly confined to the academic world within the University of Valencia.

In 1978 they decided to merge with the much larger national Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), to which they integrated. Their name remains in the name of the Valencian branch of the PSOE, officially called PSPV-PSOE, even though it is usually reduced to PSOE only by the PSPV-PSOE itself. This Valencian branch of the PSOE, unlike their Catalan counterpart, does not have a record of having acted independently from the national executive of the Spanish-wide PSOE.

The PSPV-PSOE was the ruling party in the Valencian Country from 1983 through 1995. The People's Party (PP) won the elections since 1995 until 2015, when the PSPV-PSOE won the elections and ended the 20 year tenure of the PP. The PSPV-PSOE remains the main opposition party of the PP from 1995 to date.

In their general meeting held in September 2008, the party was scheduled to officially drop the PSPV line in their name and change it to PSCV to adjust it to the official name of the territory (Comunitat Valenciana, CV)[1] but, eventually, this proposal was discarded and the name was not changed.[2] However, talk of a name change for the party keeps lingering on, as its new leader is said to support a different name in order to be in synch with the current Valencian situation.[3] (for further information, see Names of the Valencian Community)

Electoral performance

Valencian Courts

Election Leader Votes % # Seats Legislative role
1983 Joan Lerma 982,567 51.41 #1
51 / 89
 Majority
1987 828,961 41.28 #1
42 / 89
 Minority
1991 860,429 42.85 #1
45 / 89
 Majority
1995 804,463 33.98 #2
32 / 89
 Opposition
1999 Antoni Asunción 768,548 33.91 #2
35 / 89
 Opposition
2003 Joan Ignasi Pla 874,288 35.95 #2
35 / 89
 Opposition
2007 838,987 34.49 #2
38 / 99
 Opposition
2011 Jorge Alarte 687,141 28.04 #2
33 / 99
 Opposition
2015 Ximo Puig 509,098 20.57 #2
23 / 99
 Coalition

Cortes Generales

Election Votes % # Seats
Congress Senate
1977 678,429 36.33 #1
13 / 29
8 / 12
1979 698,677 37.31 #1
13 / 29
6 / 12
1982 1,118,354 53.11 #1
19 / 29
9 / 12
1986 993,439 47.49 #1
18 / 31
9 / 12
1989 878,377 41.46 #1
16 / 31
9 / 12
1993 935,325 38.35 #2
12 / 31
4 / 12
1996 990,993 38.32 #2
13 / 32
3 / 12
2000 826,595 34.00 #2
12 / 32
3 / 12
2004 1,127,700 42.45 #2
14 / 32
3 / 12
2008 1,124,414 40.97 #2
14 / 33
3 / 12
2011 697,474 26.75 #2
10 / 33
3 / 12
2015 531,489 19.83 #3
7 / 32
2 / 12
2016 539,278 20.79 #3
6 / 33
0 / 12

See also

References

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