Mérida (EFE).- Although the PSOE has been the force with the most votes in Extremadura in these general elections, with 39% of the votes cast, the Socialists have lost one deputy and are left with four, while the PP, which has touched 38% and has risen almost twelve points, gains one representative and rises to four deputies, and Vox loses one of the two it had.
The increase in votes for the PP, which goes from 26 to 38%, with almost more than 80,000 votes compared to 2019, has not been enough to break the PSOE, but it does achieve a tie of representatives, since socialists and popular will have two deputies both in the province of Cáceres and in Badajoz.
The PSOE maintains a percentage of support very similar to that achieved four years ago despite growing by some 14,000 votes, but loses one of the three deputies it obtained in the province of Badajoz, where the PP maintains its two deputies.
In these general elections, the province of Badajoz elects five representatives, one less than in the 2019 elections, as a result of a drop in its population.
Vox, which loses around 16,000 votes in the whole of Extremadura compared to 2019, has obtained 13.6% of the votes and loses the only deputy it had for the province of Cáceres, although it maintains the one achieved four years ago in the province of Badajoz.