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Six in Ten Islanders to Skip Voting in Elections

June 10, 2024
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It was expected and the forecast came true. Abstention won the elections. Despite candidates putting all their efforts into emphasizing the importance of these European elections for the Islands. In fact, 70% of the legislation adopted in the European Parliament affects the Archipelago, such as aid to agriculture, fisheries, discounts on travel between islands and the Peninsula… But neither that argument nor any other, like the repeated phrase that “Canary Islands are at stake,” managed to reach the hearts of the islanders.

Almost six out of every ten Canarians stayed at home, went to the beach, or took the opportunity on Sunday to go for a countryside walk, while the ballot boxes remained half-empty, and Spain was dyed blue yesterday (the PSOE only won in Canary Islands, Catalonia, and Navarre).

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Updated 10 Jun 2024 2:27

JUN, 2:27

Abstention Prevails in Canary Islands: Six out of Ten Islanders Not Voting

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It was expected and the forecast came true. Abstention won the elections. Despite candidates putting all their efforts into emphasizing the importance of these European elections for the Islands. In fact, 70% of the legislation adopted in the European Parliament affects the Archipelago, such as aid to agriculture, fisheries, discounts on travel between islands and the Peninsula… But neither that argument nor any other, like the repeated phrase that “Canary Islands are at stake,” managed to reach the hearts of the islanders.

Almost six out of every ten Canarians stayed at home, went to the beach, or took the opportunity on Sunday to go for a countryside walk, while the ballot boxes remained half-empty, and Spain was dyed blue yesterday (the PSOE only won in Canary Islands, Catalonia, and Navarre).

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JUN, 2:25

PSOE Maintains Lead in Canary Islands and Achieves Another Victory

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The PSOE resists and remains the leading force in the Archipelago. With the results for the European Parliament, the party continues its winning streak in the Islands, which began with the 2019 general elections. The ballot boxes painted Spain almost entirely blue yesterday, with red only gaining ground in three communities. Canary Islands being one of them. It was the only positive note of an electoral day that ended with a bittersweet taste for the island’s socialists. The party saved face in the Islands by staying above the popular party, but lost 80,834 votes in the Islands compared to the last European elections in 2019, resulting in a 1.52 percentage point decrease.

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JUN, 2:23

Left Alternative Division Costs Podemos Dearly

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The division of the left penalizes Podemos, also in the Canary Islands. The party led by Irene Montero in these European Parliament elections dropped from fourth to seventh place in the Archipelago by running solo and not in coalition with other parties, as was the case in 2019. With about 23,203 votes, or in other words, 3.43% of the votes, the purple party fell almost 4,000 ballots behind Sumar Canarias, where other forces they were in coalition with five years ago were represented Read more.

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JUN, 2:21

The Canarian PP contributes to the national victory

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“The PP has once again won the elections and Canarias has had a lot to do with it,” declared the president of the party in the Islands, Manuel Domínguez, to the few supporters who came out to support their leaders on election night. The populares gained 60,000 votes in the Archipelago compared to the 2014 results. In total, 197,871 Canarians supported their proposals, placing the party as the second most voted force in two provinces, just 7,721 votes behind the PSOE.

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JUN, 1:05

Vox climbs to third place in Canarias

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Vox makes gains in Canarias. The party led by Santiago Abascal has improved its results in the two provinces of the Archipelago and has gone from being the seventh option in the Islands to becoming the third force, behind the PSOE and the PP. The far-right party went this Sunday from 23,683 votes to 81,202 votes, more than double the support obtained in the previous European Parliament elections. This figure raises the party’s results to 12% of the votes counted, also representing an increase of almost nine points (8.69%) compared to five years ago when it barely reached 3.31%, placing Vox ahead of formations like Coalición Canaria.

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However, compared to 2014, an increase in voters has occurred. Back then, the abstention rate was as much as 62.26%, three points higher than in the current elections, but Canarias was the second region with the lowest voter turnout in the country, just behind the 63.54% in the Balearic Islands.

Las Palmas with the highest abstention rate

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Provincially, there was a higher abstention rate in Las Palmas, with 59.92% (517, 549 people did not vote), but not much difference from Santa Cruz de Tenerife, where 58.61% (474, 297 people) chose not to go to the polls.

In the whole of Spain

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The participation in the European Parliament elections held yesterday in Spain as a whole was 49.2%, 10 points lower than in Canarias but also recorded a decline of 11.5 points compared to the 2019 Euro Parliament elections, which coincided with the municipal and regional elections, but 5.4% higher than in 2014, held separately.

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