Spain will hold early general elections on Sunday, November 29, 2026, in which all 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies and 208 seats in the Senate will be renewed.
Pedro Sánchez dissolved Cortes on October 5, more than nine months before the end of the legislature, after Congress rejected the decrees with which his government intended to respond to the housing crisis. The call opens a short campaign of less than two months, in a very different scenario from 2023.
Then, the People's Party (center-right) won the election but failed to secure the investigation, and Sánchez resumed the presidency thanks to a heterogeneous majority of socialists, Somar (labour left and ecosocialism), and nationalist and pro-independence parties.
Today, all polls published after the election call place the PP led by Alberto Núñez Feijo, with numbers between 31% and 34% of the vote, and Vox at its historical peak, between 18% and 19.5%. Together they comfortably exceed the absolute majority of 176 deputies in polls that estimate seats, while the PSOE ranges from 26% to 27.5%, and the left space is divided between Franta Amplio and Podemos (both progressive left).
During the coming weeks I will cover the various parties and candidates running in the elections in Spain, their positions and their numbers in the polls, along with a small analysis of each candidate from a right-wing nationalist point of view.