The electoral roll for 29 November can be checked until 19 October: 22.5% of the Valley’s voters live abroad
The electoral roll for the 29 November general election can be checked until 19 October. The Almanzora Valley has 44,993 voters, and 10,130 of them live abroad.
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Residents of the Almanzora Valley have until 19 October to check that they are correctly registered on the electoral roll for the general election on 29 November. The period for checking the roll and lodging claims opened on Monday 12, according to the Electoral Census Office of the INE, Spain’s National Statistics Institute.
It is worth a look, especially if you have moved house or are voting for the first time, like the 26,028 young people in the province who will be casting their first vote in a general election.
More than 10,000 voters abroad
The roll also reveals a figure that says a lot about our land: of the 44,993 voters in the Valley’s 27 towns and villages, 10,130 live abroad. That is 22.5%, more than one in five, and more than double the figure for the province as a whole (9.8%).
In Bacares (319 out of 521) and Albánchez (489 out of 873) there are more voters outside Spain than in the village itself. Taberno is close to half (47%), Arboleas is approaching 40% and in Serón and Cantoria the figure is around one in three. At the other end of the scale, Olula del Río, Macael and Fines do not reach 10%. Albox, with 9,586 voters, has 2,205 abroad.
Behind every figure there are people who live far away but are still registered on the roll in their home town.
How to check your details
- At your town hall. The period includes a public holiday and a weekend: best not to leave it until the last day.
- Online, on the INE’s electronic portal (sede electrónica), with Cl@ve. You will also see your polling table and your polling station.
- If there is an error, you can submit a claim within the same period, at the town hall or online (in the latter case, with a valid certificate of registration on the padrón, the municipal register).
- If you do not want to receive election campaign material at home, you can also request this until 19 October.
If you cannot vote in person
Postal votes can be requested until 19 November at any Correos post office or online. According to the INE, the documents will arrive between 9 and 22 November and votes can be sent until 25 November. If you are living outside Spain only temporarily, your deadline to request one ends on 31 October.
If you have family abroad
Spanish citizens who live abroad do not have to request a vote: they will receive the documents in two mailings, the first between 24 and 30 October, and they will be able to send their vote by post to the consulate or place it in a ballot box from 21 to 26 November. Their details are checked at the consulate, within the same period.
The poll cards (tarjetas censales), showing each voter’s polling table and polling station, will be sent out from 2 November.
