In 2011, Spain witnessed a radical change in the political cycle, with the Popular Party (PP) accumulating a much greater portion of power than at any other time since the return to democracy and the Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE) suffering an unprecedented electoral debacle. An analysis of the circumstances of this change (the vote loss/gain in various types of elections) leads to the conclusion that there has been a collapse of the left rather than a substantial increase of support for the right.