Trade union elections

By means of trade union elections and by means of personal, direct, free and secret suffrage, the bodies representing public employees in each labour centre/electoral unit are elected (Article 12.1 of the Royal Decree Law 20/2012).

The type of unit representation of public employees varies according to the type of staff:

- Staff members, whose representative bodies are the Personnel Delegates (when the census of workers exceeds six and below 49) and the Personnel Boards (census of 50 workers).
- Labour force, the representative bodies of which are the Personnel Delegates (when the census of workers is above six and below 49) and Works Councils (census of 50 workers).

Provisional results
Agreement for the recognition of results

Further information

For more information, please refer to the following implementing rules:

“Law 9/1987 of 12 June on bodies of representation”
“Royal Decree 1846/1994, which approves the Regulations for elections to the bodies representing staff in the service of the General Administration of the State”
“Royal Decree 1844/1994, of 9 September, approving the Rules of Elections to the Bodies for the Representation of Workers in the Company”

Trade union representation, for its part, is formed through the Trade Union Sections and the Trade Union Delegates (Articles 8 et seq. of Organic Law 11/1985 of 2 August on Trade Union Freedom).