● Election night · Sunday 29 November 2026
— days to polling day
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The Interior Ministry has not yet put its provisional-results site for this election online, and its data format has never been published, so we have not wired a live count (our data plan). We check for it from Madrid and link it here as soon as it appears. The official count reaches the BOE within forty days, and we load it from there.
The night and after
Polling day to the official results, under the electoral law.
Step 1 of 7 · Polling stations · 9:00
Each station's president and members are drawn by public lot from its own voters (LOREG art. 26). Voting runs without interruption from 9:00 to 20:00 (LOREG art. 84). The Canary Islands keep their own clock, an hour behind the peninsula.
Step 2 of 7 · 20:00 local time
Voters already inside the station or at its entrance at 20:00 may still vote; then the postal ballots go into the urns (art. 88). On the peninsula, the Balearics, Ceuta and Melilla that is 20:00; in the Canaries, 21:00 Madrid time.
Step 3 of 7 · Each polling station
Counting begins as soon as voting ends, in public (art. 95). The station posts its result at the door and sends a copy of its record to the Government (art. 98).
Step 4 of 7 · Ministry of the Interior
From those copies the Government publishes provisional results through the night, constituency by constituency. They are not official: no seat is final until the provincial boards proclaim it.
Step 5 of 7 · Provincial electoral boards · 4 December
On the fifth day after the vote each provincial board makes the official count of its constituency in a single public session (art. 103), hears complaints, and proclaims the deputies and senators elected.
Step 6 of 7 · Junta Electoral Central
Within forty days the Junta Electoral Central publishes the general and constituency results in the BOE (art. 108.6). For 2023 that was BOE-A-2023-18907, the source of our results data.
Step 7 of 7 · 23 December 2026
The Congress and Senate hold their constituent sessions at 10:00 (decree art. 5). Then the King consults the parties and proposes a candidate for investiture.
The number that matters
An absolute majority of the Congress invests a President of the Government on the first vote. Short of that, a candidate needs more yes than no votes 48 hours later, so abstentions matter as much as allies (Constitution art. 99).
Build a majority →The 2026 seat map · Real Decreto 806/2026
Seats are counted province by province, each by D'Hondt among lists with at least 3% of the valid vote there (LOREG art. 163). A deputy for Madrid represents 137,488 electors; one for Teruel, 35,451.
Electors per seat use the 2023 electoral roll (BOE-A-2023-18907, Cuadro I) and the 2026 seat allocation.
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| Province | Seats 2026 | 2023 | Electors per seat |
|---|---|---|---|
| Madrid | 38 | 37 | 137,488 |
| Barcelona | 32 | 32 | 132,609 |
| Valencia | 16 | 16 | 124,959 |
| Alicante | 12 | 12 | 108,859 |
| Seville | 12 | 12 | 130,340 |
| Málaga | 11 | 11 | 112,713 |
| Murcia | 10 | 10 | 109,970 |
| A Coruña | 8 | 8 | 135,709 |
| Balearic Islands | 8 | 8 | 103,594 |
| Biscay | 8 | 8 | 117,873 |
| Cádiz | 8 | 9 | 127,245 |
| Las Palmas | 8 | 8 | 112,360 |
| Asturias | 7 | 7 | 137,003 |
| Granada | 7 | 7 | 109,354 |
| Pontevedra | 7 | 7 | 129,919 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | 7 | 7 | 125,888 |
| Zaragoza | 7 | 7 | 105,723 |
| Almería | 6 | 6 | 86,019 |
| Córdoba | 6 | 6 | 107,548 |
| Gipuzkoa | 6 | 6 | 97,646 |
| Girona | 6 | 6 | 91,062 |
| Tarragona | 6 | 6 | 99,448 |
| Toledo | 6 | 6 | 90,428 |
| Badajoz | 5 | 5 | 110,140 |
| Cantabria | 5 | 5 | 101,564 |
| Castellón | 5 | 5 | 86,166 |
| Ciudad Real | 5 | 5 | 78,299 |
| Huelva | 5 | 5 | 80,501 |
| Jaén | 5 | 5 | 103,674 |
| Navarre | 5 | 5 | 103,984 |
| Valladolid | 5 | 5 | 86,276 |
| Álava | 4 | 4 | 65,054 |
| Albacete | 4 | 4 | 76,997 |
| Burgos | 4 | 4 | 74,100 |
| Cáceres | 4 | 4 | 84,873 |
| La Rioja | 4 | 4 | 63,023 |
| León | 4 | 4 | 105,729 |
| Lleida | 4 | 4 | 79,306 |
| Lugo | 4 | 4 | 84,439 |
| Ourense | 4 | 4 | 88,941 |
| Salamanca | 4 | 4 | 75,127 |
| Ávila | 3 | 3 | 45,556 |
| Cuenca | 3 | 3 | 50,898 |
| Guadalajara | 3 | 3 | 65,661 |
| Huesca | 3 | 3 | 57,797 |
| Palencia | 3 | 3 | 45,881 |
| Segovia | 3 | 3 | 39,818 |
| Teruel | 3 | 3 | 35,451 |
| Zamora | 3 | 3 | 54,333 |
| Soria | 2 | 2 | 37,884 |
| Ceuta | 1 | 1 | 63,310 |
| Melilla | 1 | 1 | 61,118 |
The other ballot
Senators are elected the same night on a separate, open ballot. Voters tick individual candidates, from any list: up to three of the four in each of the 47 mainland provinces, two in the three-seat islands and in Ceuta and Melilla, one in each single-seat island (LOREG art. 165–166). Since 2026 Formentera elects its own senator.
The regional parliaments appoint more senators afterwards: one per community plus one per million inhabitants (Constitution art. 69.5).