Valladolid, Jul (EFE).- A total of 170,670 voters have already voted by mail in Castilla y León for the general elections this Sunday, with data from this midnight and in the absence of those that can be added until two this afternoon, which represent 95.42 percent of the 178,846 who had requested it in that Community.
In a statement, Correos has detailed that at 12 midnight yesterday, 2,461,284 citizens had already sent their votes by mail for the elections on July 23, which represent 93.8% of the applications admitted, “the highest ratio reached in general elections since 2008, the first year with approved statistical records.”
“Pending the final data, this number of postal votes already represents the highest number of postal votes recorded in the history of Spanish democracy and demonstrates the success in managing postal voting,” according to the same sources.
In Castilla y León, 136,702 requests to vote by mail in person and 42,144 electronically were submitted.
Between 97 percent in Palencia and 94.26 in Zamora
And according to the data up to that midnight, in Ávila 8,499 of the 8,945 who had requested it have already voted by mail, 95 percent; in Burgos 28,052 of 29,466, 95.2 percent; and in León 29,662 of 31,015, 95.63 percent.
In Palencia, 12,014 of the 12,479 who requested it have already voted, 96.27 percent; in Salamanca 23,324 of 24,524, 95.1 percent; and in Segovia 8,819 of 9,280 applicants, 95 percent.
In Soria, 6,298 voters have already delivered their vote by mail, 95.16 percent; in Valladolid 43,812 of 45,709, 95.84 percent; and in Zamora 10,190 of 10,810, 94.26 percent.
A total of 2,083,717 Castilian-Leonese are called to vote in Castilla y León in the general elections on July 23, 1,922,163 residents in the Community and 161,554 abroad, of which 71,744 will do so for the first time in this type of election after turning 18 since the previous call in November 2019.
Castilla y León: 31 deputies and 36 senators
In the general elections on Sunday in Castilla y León, 31 deputies of the 350 that make up Congress and 36 senators are elected, without a fixed number since 208 are elected by universal, free, equal, direct and secret suffrage, and there is another group that corresponds to the autonomous parliaments, with one per community and another per million inhabitants.
There are four senators for each province of Castilla y León and, as for the deputies, Valladolid elects five; Burgos, León and Salamanca choose four; Zamora, Palencia, Ávila and Segovia choose three, and Soria chooses two.
In Castilla y León, 107 candidacies for Congress have been proclaimed: 14 in Valladolid and Palencia; 12 in Zamora, Salamanca and León; 11 in Ávila, Burgos and Segovia, and 10 in Soria.
In the Senate there are 98 candidacies: 9 in Soria; 10 in Ávila, Burgos and Segovia; 11 in León and Zamora; 12 in Salamanca and Valladolid, and 13 in Palencia. EFE
