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Congreso de los Diputados · 1977–2025

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  1. Search this plenary, from 1977 to 2025, by text, date, party, legislature (the term each Record prints), and deputy.
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What it is

The plenary of this chamber, turn by turn, according to its official record: Diario de Sesiones (Pleno, Diputación Permanente, sesiones de 1977-79).

Spain · 1977 · 44 sessions · 6,103 speech turnsSpain · 1978 · 150 sessions · 21,272 speech turnsSpain · 1979 · 62 sessions · 10,262 speech turnsSpain · 1980 · 82 sessions · 11,748 speech turnsSpain · 1981 · 68 sessions · 8,298 speech turnsSpain · 1982 · 55 sessions · 7,678 speech turnsSpain · 1983 · 82 sessions · 14,651 speech turnsSpain · 1984 · 91 sessions · 14,483 speech turnsSpain · 1985 · 86 sessions · 11,721 speech turnsSpain · 1986 · 46 sessions · 5,975 speech turnsSpain · 1987 · 53 sessions · 9,985 speech turnsSpain · 1988 · 83 sessions · 13,357 speech turnsSpain · 1989 · 52 sessions · 6,476 speech turnsSpain · 1990 · 72 sessions · 10,881 speech turnsSpain · 1991 · 78 sessions · 11,686 speech turnsSpain · 1992 · 83 sessions · 12,786 speech turnsSpain · 1993 · 65 sessions · 9,380 speech turnsSpain · 1994 · 78 sessions · 14,138 speech turnsSpain · 1995 · 76 sessions · 11,939 speech turnsSpain · 1996 · 55 sessions · 7,737 speech turnsSpain · 1997 · 77 sessions · 13,355 speech turnsSpain · 1998 · 76 sessions · 14,416 speech turnsSpain · 1999 · 77 sessions · 13,996 speech turnsSpain · 2000 · 56 sessions · 7,497 speech turnsSpain · 2001 · 79 sessions · 12,734 speech turnsSpain · 2002 · 86 sessions · 13,303 speech turnsSpain · 2003 · 90 sessions · 16,561 speech turnsSpain · 2004 · 64 sessions · 8,686 speech turnsSpain · 2005 · 79 sessions · 12,295 speech turnsSpain · 2006 · 85 sessions · 12,643 speech turnsSpain · 2007 · 84 sessions · 11,519 speech turnsSpain · 2008 · 61 sessions · 7,453 speech turnsSpain · 2009 · 78 sessions · 11,687 speech turnsSpain · 2010 · 82 sessions · 11,640 speech turnsSpain · 2011 · 66 sessions · 9,264 speech turnsSpain · 2012 · 81 sessions · 13,245 speech turnsSpain · 2013 · 84 sessions · 14,900 speech turnsSpain · 2014 · 83 sessions · 13,454 speech turnsSpain · 2015 · 63 sessions · 10,796 speech turnsSpain · 2016 · 40 sessions · 4,319 speech turnsSpain · 2017 · 74 sessions · 11,406 speech turnsSpain · 2018 · 75 sessions · 12,651 speech turnsSpain · 2019 · 27 sessions · 4,339 speech turnsSpain · 2020 · 71 sessions · 11,918 speech turnsSpain · 2021 · 79 sessions · 14,106 speech turnsSpain · 2022 · 86 sessions · 18,107 speech turnsSpain · 2023 · 51 sessions · 7,616 speech turnsSpain · 2024 · 76 sessions · 11,953 speech turnsSpain · 2025 · 68 sessions · 12,525 speech turns
Every year has a session, from 1977 to 2025.
Table
Spain, Congreso de los Diputados: from 1977 to 2025.
PeriodSessionsSpeech turns
1977446,103
197815021,272
19796210,262
19808211,748
1981688,298
1982557,678
19838214,651
19849114,483
19858611,721
1986465,975
1987539,985
19888313,357
1989526,476
19907210,881
19917811,686
19928312,786
1993659,380
19947814,138
19957611,939
1996557,737
19977713,355
19987614,416
19997713,996
2000567,497
20017912,734
20028613,303
20039016,561
2004648,686
20057912,295
20068512,643
20078411,519
2008617,453
20097811,687
20108211,640
2011669,264
20128113,245
20138414,900
20148313,454
20156310,796
2016404,319
20177411,406
20187512,651
2019274,339
20207111,918
20217914,106
20228618,107
2023517,616
20247611,953
20256812,525

Derived edition for research: in case of any discrepancy, your chamber's Record prevails.

Where it comes from

Congreso de los Diputados de España, Official Publications. https://www.congreso.es/es/busqueda-de-publicaciones. Coverage: 1977-07-13 to 2025-12-11. Source format: PDF. How it was transformed, step by step, is told in the process report that comes with the dataset.

Numbers

  • 3,559 sessions, in 49 of 49 years.With no speech turns, 1.
  • 562,514 rows; 558,940 are speech turns.
  • In 96.85% of those speech turns, we know which deputy is speaking; another 2.57% belong to those who cannot hold a seat. Not counting these or collective voices, 99.41%.

View how it is calculated

Women's voice, in words

Words of women deputies for every hundred words of deputies of known sex, by decade. It measures voice, not seats.

Sex is assigned by us, with more error for women than for men. We assign it correctly for 97.43% of women and for 99.54% of men, measured together across eleven rosters—the lists of deputies—reviewed by hand. This is one of them.
View speech turns and women speakers
Spain · Women's voice, in words
PeriodWordsSpeech turnsWomen speakers
1977–792.47%171,994 / 6,957,4420.85%311 / 36,4475.75%23 / 400
1980–893.45%870,925 / 25,219,6511.56%1,582 / 101,6487.44%54 / 726
1990–9913.40%3,760,199 / 28,062,5476.62%7,628 / 115,20920.68%147 / 711
2000–0924.90%7,148,025 / 28,706,98043.34%48,130 / 111,06237.79%274 / 725
2010–1930.56%7,805,237 / 25,540,47439.25%40,320 / 102,73642.52%381 / 896
2020–2542.13%8,603,279 / 20,419,93359.95%44,503 / 74,23043.96%273 / 621

The words of deputies of known sex, in that chamber and that decade. Those who cannot hold a seat, collective voices, and non-speech rows are not included.

Before using it

This corpus declares five limitations, each one measured. They are in the dataset's "Known limitations" document, in English, Spanish and Portuguese.

The dataset

There are 17 files: the interventions; the roster; README, data dictionary, known limitations, and processing report, in English, Spanish, and Portuguese; and, for software, corpus numbers, metadata, and linkage methods.

The interventions file is 1,009 MB. Do not open it in a spreadsheet: it can truncate rows and text. When you choose the file, the explorer tells you how much memory it needs.

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Authorship: Rodrigues-Silveira, Rodrigo. DOI: 10.7910/DVN/OKHGAB. Edition v2.0. License CC BY 4.0.

Identifiers are stable within an edition, not across editions.

How to cite

Rodrigues-Silveira, Rodrigo, 2026, "ParlaIbero-ES: Parliamentary Speeches from Spain (1977-2025)", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/OKHGAB, Harvard Dataverse, V2