Number of Members
In the general elections of 1977, 1979 and 1982, Valencia returned 15 members. That figure was increased to 16 members for the 1986 general election and has remained at that level ever since. Under Spanish electoral law, all provinces are awarded an initial minimum of two seats, while the cities of Ceuta and Melilla must be single member districts. The remaining 248 seats are then allocated to provinces according to their population, ignoring the two minimum seats that they were awarded.
The practical effect of this law has been to over-represent smaller provinces at the expense of larger provinces like Valencia. In 2008, for example, Spain had 35,073,179 voters giving an average of 100,209 voters per deputy. In Valencia, however, the number of voters per deputy was 118,704, in contrast to the smallest provinces of Teruel and Soria where the ratio was 38,071 and 38,685, respectively.
Read more about this topic: Valencia (Spanish Congress Electoral District)
Famous quotes containing the words number of, number and/or members:
“I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which carry the snobs and speculators; the number of true connoisseurs remains more or less the same.”
—Pablo Picasso (1881–1973)
“I can’t quite define my aversion to asking questions of strangers. From snatches of family battles which I have heard drifting up from railway stations and street corners, I gather that there are a great many men who share my dislike for it, as well as an equal number of women who ... believe it to be the solution to most of this world’s problems.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)
“This will not be disloyalty but will show that as members of a party they are loyal first to the fine things for which the party stands and when it rejects those things or forgets the legitimate objects for which parties exist, then as a party it cannot command the honest loyalty of its members.”
—Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962)