PP wins Andalusia but falls short of majority as Vox gains leverage

# PP wins Andalusia but falls short of majority as Vox gains leverage

Event date: 2026-05-17.

The People’s Party won the Andalusian election but fell two seats short of an absolute majority, according to El Mundo’s tally with 99.84% of the vote counted. The report says Juanma Moreno’s party took 53 seats in the 109-seat parliament, down from 58, leaving it unable to govern alone because the majority threshold is 55.

The numbers matter because they redraw the balance of power in Spain’s largest region. The PP still finished well ahead of the PSOE, but the loss of its majority means it now needs either support or at least a workable arrangement from elsewhere. El Mundo says Vox will have voice in determining the future government of the Junta, which gives the far right real leverage despite its modest gains.

The PSOE’s result was almost as important as the PP’s. With 28 seats and 22.7% of the vote, the socialists recorded what the report calls their worst historical result in the Andalusian chamber. That is a sharp decline from 2022, when they finished on 30 seats and 24.1% of the vote. The drop means the main opposition party remains a serious force, but not one close to taking the region back.

Vox was the clearest winner on the right of the PP. It rose from 14 seats to 15 and improved slightly in vote share to 13.8%. On the other side of the spectrum, Adelante Andalucía emerged as the big winner on the left outside the PSOE, quadrupling its representation to eight seats. Por Andalucía, the coalition of IU, Sumar and Podemos, fell back to five seats.

Those shifts matter because they tell the story of a fragmented parliament rather than a clean two-party contest. Moreno’s failure to reach 55 seats means the PP can claim victory without securing the one thing it wanted most: a solo majority. For Vox, the result gives it more influence than its seat count alone might suggest.

The result also sets up a political test for the PSOE-A under María Jesús Montero. The party stays second but cannot build a governing path with the other left-wing forces on these numbers. El Mundo’s report makes clear that the election has left the right stronger in government terms, but with less stability than the PP would have preferred.

The parliament arithmetic is the main takeaway. Moreno can still claim a win, but governing from 53 seats rather than 55 means every negotiation becomes more important. Vox’s leverage therefore extends beyond its vote share, while the PSOE must now rebuild from a historically weak showing. The result is a chamber where the headline winner does not have the easiest path to rule.