Spanish Socialist Workers' Party leadership election, 2017

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21 May 2017 (primary)
16−18 June 2017 (congress)

988 delegates in the 39th PSOE Federal Congress
495 delegate votes needed to win

Opinion polls

Registered

187,949

Turnout

149,951 (79.8%)


Candidate	Pedro Sánchez	Susana Díaz	Patxi López
Party	PSOE	PSOE	PSOE
Endorsements	53,692, 43.0%	60,231, 48.3%	10,866, 8.7%
Popular vote	74,805, 50.3%	59,392, 39.9%	14,652, 9.8%
Delegate vote	Unopposed	Withdrew	Withdrew

Caretaker President before election

Javier Fernández

Elected Secretary General

Pedro Sánchez

Javier Fernández

Pedro Sánchez

The 2017 Spanish Socialist Workers' Party leadership election—formally the 2017 PSOE federal congress or the 39th Federal Congress—was held between 16 and 18 June 2017 to elect a new party leadership in the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) and set out the party's main lines of action and strategy, after the sacking of Pedro Sánchez as party leader in October 2016 had resulted in a caretaker leadership being appointed in the interim. The primary election was held on 21 May 2017, after confirmed in a federal committee on 1 April.

The leadership race was the first to be held after the party's electoral setbacks in both the 2015 and 2016 general elections in which the party scored its two worst electoral records since the Spanish transition to democracy. An extraordinary party congress had been held in July 2014 after Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba's resignation, in which Pedro Sánchez had been elected as new party leader. However, no ordinary congress had been held since 2012. Former President of the Congress of Deputies and former Lehendakari Patxi López publicly announced his bid as candidate on 15 January, with President of Andalusia Susana Díaz and Sánchez himself following suit.

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