After the Spanish elections, there could be a change of government: All information on forecasts, projections and the result.
Update from July 24, 7:20 a.m.: After the parliamentary elections, Spain is heading towards a stalemate between the right and left camps. The expected shift to the right did not materialize on Sunday. Neither the left camp around Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez nor the right camp around challenger Alberto Nuñez Feijoo achieved an absolute majority in parliament.
Feijoo’s conservative People’s Party (PP) gained significantly and became the strongest party, but together with the right-wing populist party Vox, which was considered a possible partner, and another party, it did not achieve a majority in parliament. After counting almost all the votes, these parties together receive 170 of the 350 seats. According to polls, it was expected that Vox, as a supporter of the PP, would be the first right-wing party since the end of the Franco dictatorship in 1975 to gain direct influence on government action. Feijoo declared himself the winner of the election. He is ready for dialogue to set up a government.
Sanchez’ Socialists (PSOE) became the second strongest force with slight gains. They too would need the support of other parties to form a government. However, with a total of 172 mandates, there was no majority for this either. Sanchez was nevertheless relieved. “The reactionary bloc has failed,” he told jubilant supporters in Madrid that evening. Vox is in favor of deporting illegal immigrants and wants to repeal laws on abortion and transgender rights, among other things.
Conservative People’s Party PP wins Spanish elections
Update from July 23, 11:50 p.m.: The opposition conservative People’s Party (PP) clearly won the early parliamentary elections in Spain. After counting 98 percent of the votes, the PP of top candidate Alberto Núñez Feijóo will receive 136 seats in the lower house “Congreso de los Diputados”, as the electoral authority announced late Sunday evening. There are 47 more than before. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s Socialists (PSOE) came second with 122 seats. The PSOE has had 120 MPs so far.
For the Conservatives, however, it will be a bittersweet victory. Having missed out on an absolute majority (176 seats), they will have to rely on controversial collaboration with right-wing populists from Vox if they try to form a government. But even with the 33 seats of the party of top candidate Santiago Abascal, Núñez Feijóo is not enough for a secure move into Madrid’s Palacio de la Moncloa. The votes (or abstentions) of other groups will therefore be needed.
Update from July 23, 9:05 p.m.: The television station RTVE has published new figures for the Spanish elections. The Ministry of the Interior has published the first projections. After 6.19 percent of the votes counted, the Socialists of the PSOE are ahead with 129 seats. The PP has 124 mandates. Vox follows in third place with 31 seats, with Sumar in fourth place. However, it should be noted that only a few votes have been counted so far.
Update from July 23, 8:15 p.m.: The conservative People’s Party PP led by opposition leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo has won the early parliamentary elections in Spain, according to media forecasts. According to the survey by the TV broadcaster RTVE, which is considered very reliable, the PP won on Sunday with around 145 to 150 seats ahead of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s Socialists, who came up with 113 to 118 seats
Spain election: Information on polling stations, heat and forecast
Madrid – “Historical without exaggeration” – this is how the upcoming Spanish elections are described in the media. Today, Sunday (July 23), it will be decided whether there will be a change of power. Concerns that Spain are drifting to the right are high. But it is not only the concern about the shift to the right that makes the election exciting. It is the first time a national election will be held at the height of the summer holidays, with extreme heat expected in eastern, central and southern Spain.
Extreme heat in Spain election: when do the polling stations open?
Already during the opening hours of the polling stations from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., high summer temperatures can be expected during the Spanish election. In many regions it can be from 35 to 40 degrees. Both the civil defense and the ambulance service 112 are set to work because of heat stroke. Spain’s Interior Ministry has also seconded 28,792 National Police officers and 41,054 Guardia Civil officers to the Spanish elections.
The heat may also require polling stations to be remodeled. In some of the 22,562 polling stations such as schools or libraries in the 8131 municipalities in Spain, the 60,314 polling tables could not be set up in reading rooms or classrooms as usual, but in strategically more favorable locations in a shady location and with favorable air conditioning.
Spain Election: The first forecasts and extrapolations will be available later in the evening
Get loud on election day CNN 37 million Spaniards go to the polls. This includes 1.6 million first-time voters who have turned 18 since 2019. A record number of 2.5 million postal voters cast their votes in advance.
As expected, more citizens than usual could cast their votes in the parliamentary elections in the cooler mornings and evenings than in the hot mornings and afternoons. Shortly after polling stations close, forecasts based on post-election polls are released and are generally reliable. Extrapolations based on the votes counted can only be expected later in the evening.
Election in Spain was surprisingly brought forward to July
The elections actually planned for December were brought forward by the governing Social Democrats after they failed in the Local and regional elections in May saw a significant loss of votes. After the regional elections, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, chairman of the social democratic party PSOE, announced that he would dissolve parliament and hold parliamentary elections.
Polls suggest that Sánchez’s ruling party may not emerge as the strongest force. So far, the conservative Spanish People’s Party (Partido Popular, PP), led by favorite Alberto Nuñez Feijóo, has been at the top of the polls.
Spain is currently governed by a minority government made up of the Social Democrats PSOE and left-wing coalition partner Unidas Podemos (UP). Both parties do not have their own majority in the House of Representatives and are tolerated by small parties such as the left-wing Catalan regional party Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC). (bohy)
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