Socialists' Party of Catalonia

Socialists' Party of Catalonia Partit dels Socialistes de Catalunya
Spanish name	Partido de los Socialistas de Cataluña
President	Ángel Ros
Secretary-General	Miquel Iceta
Founded	16 July 1978
Merger of	Socialist Party of Catalonia-Congress Socialist Party of Catalonia-Regroupment Catalan Federation of the PSOE
Headquarters	c/ Nicaragua, 75–77 08029 Barcelona
Newspaper	Endavant Digital
Youth wing	Socialist Youth of Catalonia
Ideology	Social democracy Federalism Spanish unionism
Political position	Center-left
National affiliation	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
Parliament of Catalonia	16 / 135
Congress of Deputies	8 / 47 (Catalan seats)
Spanish Senate	1 / 16 (Catalan seats)
European Parliament (Spanish seats)	2 / 54
Local government	1,278 / 9,077
Website
www.socialistes.cat
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The Socialists' Party of Catalonia (Catalan: Partit dels Socialistes de Catalunya, PSC-PSOE official acronym) is a social-democratic political party in Catalonia, Spain resulting from the merger of two parties Partit Socialista de Catalunya-Reagrupament led by Josep Pallach i Carolà and Partit Socialista de Catalunya-Congrés and also Catalan Federation of PSOE. It is the Catalan referent of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), and its Aranese section is Unity of Aran. The party had also been allied with federalist and republican political platform Citizens for Change (Ciutadans pel Canvi) until the 2010 election. PSC-PSOE has its power base in Barcelona metropolitan area and comarques of Tarragonès, Montsià, and Val d'Aran.

Leaders

First Secretaries

1. Joan Reventós (1978–1983)
2. Raimon Obiols (1983–1996)
3. Narcís Serra (1996–2000)
4. José Montilla (2000 – 17 December 2011)
5. Pere Navarro (since 17 December 2011)
6. Miquel Iceta (since 13 July 2014)

Presidents

1. Joan Reventós (1983–1996)
2. Raimon Obiols (1996–2000)
3. Pasqual Maragall (2000–2007)
4. José Montilla (2007–2008) (Acting)
5. Isidre Molas (2008-2011)

Election results

Parliament of Catalonia

Election	Votes	%	#	Seats	Gov't	Leader	Notes
1980	606,717	22.43	2nd	33 / 135		Joan Reventós	w. PSOE.
1984	866,281	30.11	2nd	41 / 135		Raimon Obiols	w. PSOE.
1988	802,828	29.78	2nd	42 / 135		Raimon Obiols	w. PSOE.
1992	728,311	27.55	2nd	40 / 135		Raimon Obiols	w. PSOE.
1995	802,252	24.88	2nd	34 / 135		Joaquim Nadal	w. PSOE.
1999	1,183,299	37.85	1st	52 / 135		Pasqual Maragall	w. PSOE and CpC.
2003	1,031,454	31.16	1st	42 / 135		Pasqual Maragall	w. PSOE and CpC.
2006	796,173	26.82	2nd	37 / 135		José Montilla	w. PSOE and CpC.
2010	575,233	18.38	2nd	28 / 135		José Montilla	w. PSOE.
2012	524,707	14.4	2nd	20 / 135		Pere Navarro	w. PSOE.
2015	523,283	12.72	3rd	16 / 135		Miquel Iceta	w. PSOE.

Cortes Generales

Election	Votes	%	#	Congress	Senate	Gov't	Leader	Notes
1977	870,362	28.56	1st	15 / 47	12 / 16		Joan Reventós	w. PSOE.
1979	875,529	29.67	1st	17 / 47	10 / 16		Joan Reventós	w. PSOE.
1982	1,575,601	45.83	1st	25 / 47	9 / 16		Raimon Obiols	w. PSOE.
1986	1,299,733	41.00	1st	21 / 47	8 / 16		Narcís Serra	w. PSOE.
1989	1,123,975	35.59	1st	20 / 46	6 / 16		Narcís Serra	w. PSOE.
1993	1,277,838	34.87	1st	18 / 47	6 / 16		Narcís Serra	w. PSOE.
1996	1,531,143	39.36	1st	19 / 46	8 / 16		Narcís Serra	w. PSOE.
2000	1,150,533	34.13	1st	17 / 46	7 / 16		Narcís Serra	w. PSOE.
2004	1,586,748	39.47	1st	21 / 47	8 / 16		José Montilla	w. PSOE.
2008	1,689,911	45.39	1st	25 / 47	8 / 16		Carme Chacón	w. PSOE.
2011	922,547	26.66	2nd	14 / 47	6 / 16		Carme Chacón	w. PSOE.
2015	590,274	15.69	3rd	8 / 47	0 / 16		Carme Chacón	w. PSOE.
2016				0 / 47	0 / 16	TBD	TBD

See also

• Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia
• Socialist Party of Catalonia-Congress
• List of political parties in Catalonia

External links

• Official website

References