Spanish legislative election, 1986

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Spanish general election, June 23, 1986
Party	%	Seats
Partido Socialista Obrero Español (PSOE+PSC)	44.07	184
Coalición Popular (CP)	26.20	105
Centro Democratico y Social (CDS)	9.31	19
Convergencia i Unio (CiU)	4.66	18
Izquierda Unida (IU)	4.45	7
Partido Nacionalista Vasco (PNV)	1.54	6
Herri Batasuna (HB)	1.07	5
Euskadiko Ezkerra (EE)	0.53	2
Coalición Galega (CG)	0.40	1
Partido Aragones Regionalista (PAR)	0.36	1
Agrupaciones Independientes de Canarias (AIC)	0.33	1
Unió Valenciana (UV)	0.32	1

In this election, the Communist Party of Spain merged with other minor left parties to form the coalition Izquierda Unida; in Catalonia they ran as the Unió de L`Esquerra Catalana. Similarly, the People's Alliance merged with two other conservative parties to form the People's Coalition Coalición Popular.

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Victory celebrations in PSOE's headquarters