Practice question · Numerical answer
What percentage threshold applies at constituency level in Spanish general elections?
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- A low single figure.
- Three per cent.
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Why
3%, applied per constituency. In most Spanish provinces this is not the binding constraint at all, with district magnitudes of three or four, the effective threshold imposed by magnitude alone is far higher than three per cent, which is a good illustration of why the legal threshold is often the least important of the three components.
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