United and Alternative Left

United and Alternative Left (Template:Langx, EUiA) is a political party in Catalonia, Spain. EUiA has 4000 members, and until 2019 was the Catalan correspondent of the Spain-wide United Left (IU).

Annual EUiA dinner party, 2007

It was formed in 1998 as a schism from Initiative for Catalonia Greens (ICV). It comprises an alliance of Party of the Communists of Catalonia, Living Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia, POR, PRT-IR, PASOC, CEA, and CLI. After competing in a series of elections with their former colleagues at Iniciativa, the two parties agreed to run together as an electoral coalition. In 2015, the party joined the electoral coalition En Comú Podem. In 2017, it was one of the founding parties of Catalunya en Comú, being expelled from the organization two years later as it was no longer the Catalan correspondent of United Left. Since 2023 it has participated in the Republican Left of Catalonia lists at the local level.

Composition

Current members

Party		Notes
width="1" bgcolor="Template:Party color"|	Communists of Catalonia (Comunistes.Cat)	Founded in November 2014.

Former members

Party		Notes
bgcolor="Template:Party color"|	Party of the Communists of Catalonia (PCC)	Dissolved in November 2014.
bgcolor="Template:Party color"|	Living Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSUC viu)	Left in June 2019 for United Left Catalonia.
bgcolor="Template:Party color"|	La Aurora Marxist Organization (La Aurora (OM))	Left in June 2024.

Electoral performance

Parliament of Catalonia

Date	Votes			Seats		Status	Size
	#	%	±pp	#	±
1999	44,454	1.4%	—	Template:Composition bar compact	—	N/A	6th
2003	241,163	7.3%	+5.9	Template:Composition bar compact	1	Government	*
2006	282,693	9.5%	+2.2	Template:Composition bar compact	1	Government	*
2010	230,824	7.4%	–2.1	Template:Composition bar compact	0	Opposition	*
2012	359,705	9.9%	+2.5	Template:Composition bar compact	1	Opposition	*
2015	367,613	8.9%	–1.0	Template:Composition bar compact	2	Opposition	**
2017	326,360	7.5%	–1.4	Template:Composition bar compact	0	Opposition	***

• * Within Initiative for Catalonia Greens–United and Alternative Left.
• ** Within Catalunya Sí que es Pot.
• *** Within Catalunya en Comú–Podem.

Cortes Generales

Catalonia

Congress of Deputies Date Votes Seats Size # % ±pp # ± 2000 75,019 2.2% — Template:Composition bar compact – 6th 2004 234,790 5.8% +3.6 Template:Composition bar compact 0 * 2008 183,338 4.9% –0.9 Template:Composition bar compact 0 * 2011 280,152 8.1% +3.2 Template:Composition bar compact 1 * 2015 929,880 24.7% +16.6 Template:Composition bar compact 1 ** 2016 853,102 24.5% –0.2 Template:Composition bar compact 0 **

Senate Date Seats Size # ± 2000 Template:Composition bar compact — 4th 2004 Template:Composition bar compact 0 *** 2008 Template:Composition bar compact 0 *** 2011 Template:Composition bar compact 0 *** 2015 Template:Composition bar compact 0 ** 2016 Template:Composition bar compact 0 **

• * Within Initiative for Catalonia Greens–United and Alternative Left.
• ** Within En Comú Podem.
• *** Within Catalan Agreement of Progress.

European Parliament

Spain Date Votes Seats Size # % ±pp # ± 1999 1,221,565 5.8% – Template:Composition bar compact – * 2004 643,136 4.1% –1.7 Template:Composition bar compact 0 * 2009 588,241 3.7% –0.4 Template:Composition bar compact 0 ** 2014 1,575,308 10.0% +6.3 Template:Composition bar compact 0 ***

Catalonia Date Votes Size # % ±pp 1999 58,977 2.0% – 6th 2004 151,871 7.2% +5.2 **** 2009 119,755 6.1% –1.1 **** 2014 259,152 10.3% +4.2 ****

• * Within United Left.
• ** Within The Left.
• *** Within Plural Left.
• **** Within Initiative for Catalonia Greens–United and Alternative Left.

See also

• List of political parties in Catalonia

External links

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