The votes needed to get a seat in Congress They vary depending on the electoral constituency (the province) and the number of deputies that are elected in each of them, according to the electoral system, which in the case of the general election 2023 is governed by the Organic Law of the General Electoral Regime (LOREG). Remember that on our website you can follow live all the last hour of 23J and Consult the result of the general elections by provinces and know which game has won in each of them.
This 23J we must be aware of the results by provinces, since some of them will be key when determining who will be the new president of the Government: Pedro Sánchez or Alberto Núñez Feijóo.
Here you can check how the map looks by provinces of the results of the general elections in 2023:
He electoral system in Spain states that each province has a minimum of two deputies, plus one for the autonomous city of Ceuta and another for that of Melilla. In this way, 102 seats are already allocated. Meanwhile, the remaining 248 representatives of the Lower House are assigned based on parameters that are established from the population with the right to vote in these provinces. It is a different distribution of seats in each electoral call.
One of the keys of our electoral law is that he uses the d’Hondt system, a proportional calculation method created at the end of the 19th century by the Belgian jurist Victor d’Hondt. Pursuant to this, in each constituency, candidacies that have not obtained at least 3 percent of the valid votes cast are first excluded.
For the distribution of seats among the parties that do exceed this threshold, divide the total number of votes which has been trained by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc. until you reach the number of elected officials that are disputed in each constituency. Of all the results obtained, the ‘armchairs’ are assigned to the candidates who have obtained the highest numbers, regardless of the party they are.
How many people vote in the elections?
In total, they are summoned to the polls 37,469,142 voters, who will elect 350 deputies and 208 senators through 60,314 tables deployed in 22,562 polling stations throughout the territory, in which 210,000 ballot boxes and 59,000 voting booths have been distributed.
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Of the total number of voters, 35,140,881 reside in Spain, 2,328,261 abroad and 1,639,363 will vote for the first time in general elections.
He July 23th you can consult the results of the general election 2023 and Follow the latest news on the 23J general elections live.