Barcelona (Spanish Congress Electoral District)

Barcelona (Spanish Congress Electoral District)

Barcelona is one of the 52 electoral districts (Spanish: circunscripciones) used for the Spanish Congress of Deputies - the lower chamber of the Spanish Parliament, the Cortes Generales. When first contested in modern times in the 1977 General Election, Barcelona was the largest electoral district in Congress in terms of electorate. However by the time of the 1986 election, Madrid had overtaken it. The district has usually been one of the best for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party and at the 2011 election, was one of just two districts (along with Seville) where they received most votes, though it was their worst result in terms of seats won since the Spanish transition to democracy.