Around 1,800,000 citizens are called today to vote in the Basque elections. They can choose from the 14 parties participating in the elections, four less than in 2020. The majority (10) are running in the three territories. 729 polling stations have been opened with 2,695 tables (ballot boxes) made up of 8,085 people (51 more), to which must be added the 16,170 substitutes. The counting will begin at 8 p.m. and it is estimated that it will end at 10:30 p.m., at which time the name of the winner of the elections will be official.
Each of the three Basque provinces will elect 25 of the 75 deputies of Parliament. And all this despite its demographic asymmetry, given that only 261,623 people will be able to vote in Álava, compared to 945,878 in Vizcaya and 587,711 in Guipúzcoa.
Regarding the census of almost 80,000 residents abroad, the CERA, 8,219 have voted, approximately 10% of those who could have done so, almost tripling the 3.5% of 2020, thanks to the change in the law that suppressed the vote begged Of the residents in the Basque Country, 57,726 requested to vote by mail, 10% more than in 2016, the last elections with which they can be compared, given that the 2020 elections took place in the middle of the covid pandemic.
The Basque Government has launched a new computer application for the collection, processing and dissemination of participation data and scrutiny of election results called HautesData.
A total of 75,634 young people have the right to vote for the first time after turning 18 since 2020: 38,271 in Bizkaia, 26,332 in Gipuzkoa and 11,031 in Álava.
The counting will begin at 8 p.m., when the voting centers close, and the first data will be offered at 9 p.m., from which point the counting can be followed online, which will end, according to calculations, around 10:30 p.m.
At that time, with 100% of the votes counted, the HautesData application will generate a file with the results of the so-called “provisional scrutiny”. The general scrutiny will be carried out at the headquarters (court palaces) of the three electoral boards next Friday, April 26.
Once these results are obtained and if there are no new claims, they will become final and the electoral boards will proclaim the elected people. The proclamation must be published within a maximum of seven days, both in the Official Gazette of the Basque Country and in the bulletins of each territory.
