The PP would win between 190 and 195 seats in the lower house, compared with the 176 needed for a full majority. The Socialists would win 116 to 121 seats, the survey by the government’s Center for Sociological Research (CIS) said.
Those figures are the equivalent of 46.6 percent of votes for the PP, giving it a lead of nearly 17 points.
Voters are angry at the ruling Socialists’ failure to deal with a stagnant economy and the EU’s highest unemployment rate of 21.5 pct, and consider the PP is more likely to create jobs than its rival.
The widely respected CIS poll held face-to-face interviews from Oct. 6-23 with more than 17,000 adults with a margin of error of plus or minus 0.76 percent.
The survey compares with a Sigma Dos poll published in right-leaning daily El Mundo last weekend giving the PP a lead of 14.8 percentage points.
Pollster Metroscopia estimated the PP were 15 points ahead in a separate survey published in center-left daily El Pais.
