Socialist Party of the Valencian Country

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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)

Election results

Valencian Courts

Election Seats +/− Votes % Outcome Leader
1983
51 / 89
982,567 51.4 (#1) Majority Government Joan Lerma
1987
42 / 89
Decrease9 828,961 41.3 (#1) Minority Government Joan Lerma
1991
45 / 89
Increase3 860,429 42.8 (#1) Majority Government Joan Lerma
1995
32 / 89
Decrease13 804,463 34.0 (#2) First Opposition Joan Lerma
1999
35 / 89
Increase3 768,548 33.9 (#2) First Opposition Antoni Asunción
2003
35 / 89
±0 874,288 35.9 (#2) First Opposition Joan Ignasi Pla
2007
38 / 99
Increase3 838,987 34.5 (#2) First Opposition Joan Ignasi Pla
2011
33 / 99
Decrease5 687,141 28.0 (#2) First Opposition Jorge Alarte
2015
23 / 99
Decrease10 509,098 20.6 (#2) Leading coalition (w. Compromís) Ximo Puig

Congress of Deputies

Election Seats +/− Votes %
1977
13 / 29
678,429 36.3 (#1)
1979
13 / 29
Decrease1 698,677 37.3 (#1)
1982
19 / 29
Increase6 1,118,354 53.1 (#1)
1986
18 / 31
Decrease1 993,439 47.5 (#1)
1989
16 / 31
Decrease2 878,377 41.5 (#1)
1993
12 / 31
Decrease4 935,325 38.3 (#2)
1996
13 / 32
Increase1 990,993 38.3 (#2)
2000
12 / 32
Decrease1 826,595 34.0 (#2)
2004
14 / 32
Increase2 1,127,700 42.4 (#2)
2008
14 / 33
±0 1,124,414 41.0 (#2)
2011
10 / 33
Decrease4 697,474 26.8 (#2)
2015
7 / 32
Decrease3 530,497 19.8 (#3)

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