Natalia Puga Pontevedra

Pontevedra

Updated Monday, February 26, 2024-20:52

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The vote cast since emigration has not moved the electoral table in Galicia and confirms the comfortable absolute majority of the PP that came out of the polls on

February 18

.

After the regional elections, all attention was focused on Ourense due to the counting of the ballots issued by the

Electoral Census of Absent Residents

(CERA), since the PSOE was left in this province with only 112 votes to obtain a seat and there was a real possibility that those votes could change the distribution.

However, in the end, nothing has changed.

In Ourense, the PP won eight deputies on 18-F, the BNG four and

Democracia Ourensana

and the PSOE one each.

This single representative was a setback for the socialists of this province, as they saw how their representation was reduced from three to one, which is why they focused all their attention on the vote from abroad to try to recover it, but the

popular

ones have quadrupled their votes and they protect their last seat.

The PP was the party with the most votes in the province, with 2,547 votes, while the PSOE obtained 617 and the BNG, 463. In this way, the distribution of forces is not the same in emigration as among the voter of Galicia, since that the nationalists were second force on February 18 and among voters residing abroad they were relegated to third.

Vox added 354;

DO, 130;

Sumar, 124 and Podemos, 72.

In the rest of Galicia there was, a priori, no possibility of changes and it was finally confirmed.

The foreign vote skyrocketed in these elections after the suppression of the requested vote in 2022. According to data from the Electoral Board, 22,960 Galicians cast their vote since emigration, 6.15% of Galician voters abroad.

This is five times more than in the 2020 regional elections. In total, there are 476,544 voters registered in CERA and finally 10,924 votes by mail arrived in A Coruña, 8,826 destined for Pontevedra, 6,150 to Ourense and 3,300 to Lugo.

The count of those 29,300 ballots was carried out this Monday in the four Galician provincial hearings and confirms the 75 seats: 40 for the PP, 25 for the BNG, 9 for the PSOE and 1 for DO.

As happened with the votes cast in the ballot box in Galicia, those sent from abroad endorsed the majority of the 'popular' ones, who obtained 49.8% of the ballots.

Once the 247 votes declared invalid were removed, of the valid votes, they achieved 11,308.

As in Ourense, but different from the final electoral table of 18-F, the PSOE was the second force among diaspora voters, with 3,627 ballots, 15.9% of the total;

and the BNG was third, with 3,583, 15.7%).

The fourth force was Vox, with 1,567;

the fifth, Sumar, with 838;

and the sixth, Podemos, with 563.

The majority of those votes came from

Argentina

, 7,900.

The second voting ground was

Switzerland

, with 4,476 people.

The third country from which the most Galicians decided to vote was

France

, where 2,331 people cast their ballots.

2,300 arrived

from

Uruguay and 1,840 from

Venezuela

.