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President: Pere Aragonès (ERC) · Governing parties: ERC, JxCat
Legislative elections: Parliament of Catalonia, 4-year term, 135 seats, 3% threshold (constituency-level), party-list PR:

  2021 2017 2015 2012
Party Ideology % Seats % Seats % Seats % Seats
Partit dels Socialistes de Catalunya (PSC-PSOE)
Socialists' Party of Catalonia
Social democracy 23,0 33 13,9 17 12,7 16 14,4 20
Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC)
Republican Left of Catalonia
Separatism
Social democracy
21,3 33 21,4 32 JxSí (20) 13,7 21
Junts per Catalunya (JxCat)
Together for Catalonia
Separatism 20,1 32 21,7 34 - - - -
Vox (VOX)
Vox (a)
National conservatism   
Right-wing populism
7,7 11 - - - - 1,7 -
Catalunya en Común Podem (ECP)
Catalonia in Common We Can (b)
Regionalism
Democratic socialism
Green politics
6,9 8 7,5 8 8,9 11 - -
Candidatura d'Unitat Popular (CUP)
Popular Unity Candidatures
Separatism
Socialism
6,7 9 4,5 4 8,2 10 3,5 3
Ciutadans-Partido de la Ciudadanía (CS)
Citizens-Party of the Citizenry
Liberalism      5,6 6 25,4 37 17,9 25 7,6 9
Partit Popular (PP)
People's Party
Conservatism
Christian democracy 
3,9 3 4,2 3 8,5 11 13,0 19
Partit Demòcrata Europeu Català (PDeCAT)
Catalan European Democratic Party (c)
Separatism
Liberalism 
2,7 - JxCat (15) JxSí (30) CiU (37)
Podem (PODEM)
We Can
Anti-globalisation
Direct democracy
Democratic socialism
ECP (5) ECP (2) CSQP (4) - -
Esquerra Verda (EV)
Green Left (d)
Regionalism
Green politics
Ecosocialism
ECP (2) ECP (2) CSQP (3) 9,9 13
Units per Avançar (UNITS)
Units to Advance (e)
Regionalism
Christian democracy
PSC (1) PSC (2) 2,5 - CiU (13)
Demòcrates de Catalunya (D)
Democrats of Catalonia
Separatism
Christian democracy
JxCat (1) ERC (2) JxSí (3) - -
Moviment d'Esquerres (MES)
Movement of the Left
Separatism
Social democracy
JxCat (1) ERC (1) JxSí (1) - -
Esquerra Unida (EU-IU)
United Left
Socialism
Communism
ECP - - - - - - -
Esquerra Unida i Alternativa (EUiA)
United and Alternative Left
Regionalism
Socialism
Communism
- - ECP (1) CSQP (2) ICV (3)
Junts pel Sí (JxSí)
Together for Yes
Separatism      - - - - 39,6 62 - -
Convergència i Unió (CiU)
Convergence and Union
Regionalism
Liberalism
Christian democracy
- - - - - - 30,7 50
Others 2,1 - 1,4 - 1,7 - 5,5 -
Total - 135 - 135 - 135 - 135
Turnout 51,3 79,1 74,9 69,8

© 2021 Wolfram Nordsieck. Source: Generalitat de Catalunya (www.resultats.parlament2021.cat).  For full coverage, click here (1980-present). Notes: (a) 2012: Platform for Catalonia (PxC); (b) 2015: Catalonia Yes We Can (CSQP); (c) 2012/2015: Democratic Convergence of Catalonia (CDC); (d) 2012: Initiativa for Catalonia Greens-United and Alternative Left (ICV-EUiA); 2015/2017: Initiative for Catalonia Greens (ICV); (e) 2012/2015: Democratic Union of Catalonia (UDC).