Socialist Party of the Valencian Country

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The Socialist Party of the Valencian Country or PSPV (Valencian: Partit Socialista del País Valencià; Spanish: Partido Socialista del Pais Valenciano) was a small nationalist and leftist Valencian party, mostly confined to the academic world within the University of Valencia.

In 1978 they decided to merge with the much larger national Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), to which they integrated. Their name remains in the name of the Valencian branch of the PSOE, officially called PSPV-PSOE, even though it is usually reduced to PSOE only by the PSPV-PSOE itself. This Valencian branch of the PSOE, unlike their Catalan counterpart, does not have a record of having acted independently from the national executive of the Spanish-wide PSOE.

The PSPV-PSOE was the ruling party in the Valencian Community from 1983 through 1995. The People's Party (PP) has won the elections since, thus turning the PSPV-PSOE as the main opposition party from 1995 to date.

In their general meeting held in September 2008, the party was scheduled to officially drop the PSPV line in their name and change it to PSCV to adjust it to the official name of the territory (Valencian Community, VC)^[1] but, eventually, this proposal was discarded and the name was not changed.^[2] However, talk of a name change for the party keeps lingering on, as its new leader is said to support a different name in order to be in synch with the current Valencian situation.^[3] (for further information, see Names of the Valencian Community)

Election results

Valencian Courts

Election	Seats won	±	Size	# of votes	%	Government	Leader
Valencian Courts
1983	51 / 89	51	1st	982,567	51.4%	Majority gov't	Joan Lerma
1987	42 / 89	9	1st	828,961	41.3%	Minority gov't	Joan Lerma
1991	45 / 89	3	1st	860,429	42.8%	Majority gov't	Joan Lerma
1995	32 / 89	13	2nd	804,463	34.0%	Opposition	Joan Lerma
1999	35 / 89	3	2nd	768,548	33.9%	Opposition	Antoni Asunción
2003	35 / 89	±0	2nd	874,288	35.9%	Opposition	Joan Ignasi Pla
2007	38 / 99	3	2nd	838,987	34.5%	Opposition	Joan Ignasi Pla
2011	33 / 99	5	2nd	687,141	28.0%	Opposition	Jorge Alarte

Congress of Deputies

Election	Seats won	±	Size	# of votes	%	Candidate
Congress of Deputies
1977	13 / 29	13	1st	678,429	36.3%	Felipe González
1979	13 / 29	1	1st	698,677	37.3%	Felipe González
1982	19 / 29	6	1st	1,118,354	53.1%	Felipe González
1986	18 / 31	1	1st	993,439	47.5%	Felipe González
1989	16 / 31	2	1st	878,377	41.5%	Felipe González
1993	12 / 31	4	2nd	935,325	38.3%	Felipe González
1996	13 / 32	1	2nd	990,993	38.3%	Felipe González
2000	12 / 32	1	2nd	826,595	34.0%	Joaquín Almunia
2004	14 / 32	2	2nd	1,127,700	42.4%	José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
2008	14 / 33	±0	2nd	1,124,414	41.0%	José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
2011	10 / 33	4	2nd	697,474	26.8%	Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba

European Parliament

Election	Size	# of votes	%	Candidate
European Parliament
1987	1st	845,517	42.1%	Fernando Morán
1989	1st	732,602	42.7%	Fernando Morán
1994	2nd	608,897	30.5%	Fernando Morán
1999	2nd	807,299	35.6%	Rosa Díez
2004	2nd	737,669	42.2%	Josep Borrell
2009	2nd	708,244	37.6%	Juan Fernando López Aguilar
2014	2nd	379,541	21.6%	Elena Valenciano

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