United and Alternative Left explained

United and Alternative Left
Native Name:	Esquerra Unida i Alternativa
General Secretary:	Joan Josep Nuet
Headquarters:	C/Doctor Aiguader,10 08003 Barcelona
Country:	Catalonia
Position:	Far-left
Colours:	Crimson
National:	United Left (1998–2019)
Regional:	ICV–EUiA (2003–2015) Catalunya Sí que es Pot (2015–2017) En Comú Podem (2015–2019) Catalunya en Comú (2017–2019) Republican Left of Catalonia (since 2023)
Seats2 Title:	Congress of Deputies
Seats1 Title:	Parliament of Catalonia

United and Alternative Left (Catalan; Valencian: Esquerra Unida i Alternativa, 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).

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.

Electoral performance

Parliament of Catalonia

Date	Votes				Status	Size
Date		%	±pp	±	Status	Size
1999	44,454	1.4%	—	—	N/A	6th
2003	241,163	7.3%	+5.9	1	Government
2006	282,693	9.5%	+2.2	1	Government
2010	230,824	7.4%	–2.1	0	Opposition
2012	359,705	9.9%	+2.5	1	Opposition
2015	367,613	8.9%	–1.0	2	Opposition
2017	326,360	7.5%	–1.4	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				Size
Date		%	±pp	±	Size
2000	75,019	2.2%	—	–	6th
2004	234,790	5.8%	+3.6	0
2008	183,338	4.9%	–0.9	0
2011	280,152	8.1%	+3.2	1
2015	929,880	24.7%	+16.6	1
2016	853,102	24.5%	–0.2	0

Senate
Date		Size
Date	±	Size
2000	—	4th
2004	0
2008	0
2011	0
2015	0
2016	0

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

European Parliament

Spain
Date	Votes				Size
Date		%	±pp	±	Size
1999	1,221,565	5.8%	–	–
2004	643,136	4.1%	–1.7	0
2009	588,241	3.7%	–0.4	0
2014	1,575,308	10.0%	+6.3	0

Catalonia
Date	Votes			Size
Date		%	±pp	Size
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.