Catalan election too close to call

Catalans go to the polls following the independence referendum and the imposition of direct rule by Madrid. The vote is being held with separatist candidates either in exile or in jail and polls suggesting a tight result

PROJECTED RESULT*

ERC 31-32
JxCAT 28-30
CUP 8
CeC 8-9
Cs 30-32
PSC 20-21
PP 6-7

*Average results from various polls since Dec 4

Majority: 68 seats
PARLIAMENT OF CATALONIA


INDEPENDENTIST PARTIES
ERC – Republican Left of Catalonia. Led by ousted vice-president, Oriol Junqueras, in jail
in Madrid accused of sedition

JxCAT – Together for Catalonia. Led by deposed president Carles Puigdemont, in Brussels after referendum

CUP – Popular Unity Candidacy Carles Riera. Far-left, anti-capitalist party

UNIONIST PARTIES
Cs – Citizens Inés Arrimadas. Centre-right party founded 11 years ago in Catalonia to fight Catalan nationalism
 
PSC – Socialists Party of Catalonia. Miquel Iceta. Branch of Spain’s main centre-left party, PSOE

PP – People’s party of Catalonia. Xavier García Albiol. Conservative affiliate of Spain’s ruling PP party

NON-ALIGNED
CeC – Catalonia in Common. Xavier Domenech Catalan arm of Spanish anti-austerity Podemos party

Surveys by GAPS/JuntsxCat, SocioMétrica/El Español, Feedback/El Nacional, Infortécnica/Segre,
GAD3/La Vanguardia, Feedback/El Nacional 

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