The progressive voter exercised a strategic and dual vote last Sunday 28-M in the two ballot boxes he faced in the city of Valencia. His behavior was different when it came to choosing the sepia ballot (autonomous elections) and the white one (local) leaving some quite relevant data. A behavior that was not so significant in the conservative forces.
The mayor of Valencia and CompromÃs candidate for re-election, Joan Ribó, achieved 99,122 votes in the municipal elections, while his partner and candidate for the Generalitat, Joan BaldovÃ, remained with 66,987 ballots in the ballot box next door. There were 32,135 fewer votes that did not vanish from the left-wing bloc and that found accommodation in other regional lists.
The great beneficiary of this transfer of voters was Ximo Puig. The still president of the Generalitat obtained 20,158 more votes than the Socialist candidate for mayor, Sandra Gómez. The regional list of the PSPV in the city of Valencia reached 98,657 votes, while the one headed by the vice mayor remained at 78,499.
There was also a strategic vote by the Unides Podem voter. It seemed much more feasible for the coalition to enter Parliament than in the City Council of the Valencian capital and this was understood by the voter who left the local candidacy of Pilar Lima with 9,677 votes and gave the one headed by Héctor Illueca 8,744 more supports. With the 18,421 votes obtained by the vice president of the Government, the coalition would have been on the verge of having representation in the consistory of the cap i casal.
These numbers and the redistribution of support show the pull of Joan Ribó, that of President Ximo Puig and the strategic vote of the Unides Podem voter.
A difference that does not occur so abruptly in the rows on the right. It is true that the future mayoress, MarÃa José Catalá, wins Carlos Mazón’s list by 6,300 votes (in a much fuller bag of voters) but in the case of Vox the difference is less than 2,000 ballots in favor of the regional candidacy .
