The surprise came this Monday, when the results of the European Elections on June 9th were known street by street. In one of the population sections of Schamann, a neighbourhood of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Junts managed to win, surpassing the rest of the candidates. Has this Canarian corner become a ‘Gaulish village’ of the Catalan independence process? The answer is no, at least not at first, and the explanation for what happened is simpler than it might seem.
The ‘dissected’ data on the electoral count that we have been publishing in recent days are provisional results, according to sources from the Government Delegation in the Canary Islands consulted by LA PROVINCIA/DLP. The information, therefore, may contain some transcription errors, but that does not mean that this situation will be definitively accepted.
To know the final results of the European Parliament elections from last Sunday, we will still have to wait a bit. Throughout Spain, the provincial electoral boards meet five days after the election to open the records received from each polling station. It will be from there, and with the data meticulously added up, that the final count can be known.
Also in Tenerife, Madrid or Zaragoza
The situation in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria is not unique. Throughout this Monday, several users on the social network Twitter (now X) posted similar results in other population sections of Spain. This has also occurred, for example, in the neighborhood of Ofra, in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, in an area of the Madrid neighbourhood of Lavapiés, and in other polling stations of the capital of Aragon, Zaragoza, where the party of Carles Puigdemont – who was not running as a candidate on this occasion – seems to have triumphed.
Clipping of the Excel table where Junts UE appears next to the PSOE in a population section of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. / LP/DLP
Although there is no official clarification on this coincidence, the Excel tables distributed by the Ministry of the Interior seem to have the key. In them, the column of results achieved by Junts in each polling station is located just to the left of the column with the results of the PSOE, so the confusion may have occurred when reproducing the data in this document.
