The 16th Congress of Deputies will be a meeting of the Congress of Deputies, the lower house of the Spanish , with the membership determined by the results of the general election held on 29 November 2026. The congress will meet for the first time in December 2026. According to the Constitution of Spain the maximum legislative term of the congress is 4 years from the preceding election. 350 members of the Congress of Deputies were elected in the 2026 Spanish general election to sit in the 16th Cortes Generales.
Background
Election process The members of the Congress (currently 350) are directly elected by the people. The Congress of Deputies has a minimum of 300 and a maximum of 400 seats, with electoral provisions fixing its size at 350. Of these, 348 are elected in 50 multi-member constituencies corresponding to the provinces of Spain—each of which is assigned an initial minimum of two seats and the remaining 248 distributed in proportion to population—using the D'Hondt method and closed-list proportional voting, with a three percent-threshold of valid votes (including blank ballots) in each constituency. The remaining two seats are allocated to Ceuta and Melilla as single-member districts elected by plurality voting.; . The use of this electoral method may result in a higher effective threshold depending on district magnitude and vote distribution.
This allocation is heavily weighted in favour of small provinces; as one MP from the most populated province Madrid, with its 7.2 million people, represents 190,000 citizens, and one MP from Soria, with 90,000 inhabitants, represents 45,000 citizens.
Election The 16th Spanish general election under the 1978 Constitution will be held on 29 November 2026.
AllianceVotes%Seats+/−PP0,00.000±0PSOE0,00.000±0 Vox0,00.000±0 Broad Front (FA)0,00.000±0 ERC–Sob–ERPV0,00.000±0 EH Bildu0,00.000±0 JxCat–Junts0,00.000±0 EAJ/PNV0,00.000±0 Others/blanks0,00.000±0 Total0,00.000±0
History The new Congress will meet for the first time on December 2026 and elected a new President of the Congress of Deputies.
Other members of the Bureau of the Congress were also elected First Vice-President; Second Vice-President; Third Vice-President; Fourth Vice-President; First Secretary; Second Secretary; Third Secretary; and Fourth Secretary.
President Candidate Votes TBD — 0 TBD — 0 Blank ballots 0 Invalid ballots 0 Absentees 0 Vacant 0 Total 267
Vice-President Candidate Votes TBD — 0 TBD — 0 TBD — 0 TBD — 0 TBD — 0 TBD — 0 Blank ballots 0 Invalid ballots 0 Absentees 0 Vacant 0 Total 267
Secretary Candidate Votes TBD — 0 TBD — 0 TBD — 0 TBD — 0 TBD — 0 TBD — 0 Blank ballots 0 Invalid ballots 0 Absentees 0 Vacant 0 Total 0
Aftermath and Government formation
Deaths, disqualifications, resignations and suspensions The 16th Congress has seen the following deaths, disqualifications, resignations and suspensions:
Elected senators
Appointed senators
Members by constituency
NameConstituencyNo.VotesPartyAllianceGroupTook officeLeft officeNotes
References
See also 16th Cortes Generales 16th Senate of Spain
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