According to the Spanish Interior Ministry, turnout in Spain’s election at 6pm local time (5pm in Lisbon) was 53.12%, lower than the 56.85% turnout in the last general election on November 10, 2019.
The data, preliminary and released on the Ministry’s website on the Internet, indicates that until then 3.73% fewer voters had voted this Sunday than in previous elections.
This number excludes mail-in voting, which reached historic levels in this election, with 2.7 million voters resorting to mail-in voting.
Spain votes in parliamentary elections with the latest polls showing the victory of the right and the defeat of the current prime minister, the socialist Pedro Sánchez.
This is the sixteenth general election in Spain since the end of the dictatorship, in 1977, and 37,469,142 voters are invited to vote, to elect 350 deputies and 208 senators.
Elections were scheduled for December, at the end of the legislature, but were brought forward by Sánchez after the defeat of the left in municipal and regional elections on May 28.
Four parties presented national lists and plan to reach the government: Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE), People’s Party (PP, right), Somar (far left) and VOX (far right).
Source: DN
