The 425 polling stations in the 102 municipalities of Cantabria are open this morning, after having constituted the 831 polling stations that the Autonomous Community has in this election day.
The government delegate in Cantabria, Ainoa Quiñones, has detailed this in a hearing before the media in which she has indicated that there have been no incidents in the opening of the electoral colleges, although two of the 831 tables have been constituted late due to two incidents.
Quiñones has detailed that one of these tables is in an electoral college in Santander. “The president of the table had a health problem, the deputies had already left and members of the Zone Electoral Board had to attend to resolve the incident,” he said.
The delegate pointed out that the problem has occurred “by having to become a board member to one of the first people who have come to vote”. “The former have not been able to be elderly people and the Electoral Board has determined that a 33-year-old man remains, who has become aggressive with the officials, which has forced the National Police to intervene,” he said.
This man has been arrested for a crime covered by the Organic Law of the General Electoral Regime.
On the other hand, the delegate of the Government has reported that there has also been an incident in the constitution of a table of a school in Santa Cruz de Bezana, where the first member of the Board was not presented and the two alternates had already left. “Also, members of the Electoral Board of the Zone have had to attend, who have called the deputies, locating one of them by telephone, but it has been slow to arrive because he had already left the municipality, being more than 50 kilometers away,” he said.
These have been the only incidents that have been recorded at the beginning of this electoral day in which local and regional elections are held in Cantabria, being the device of the Local Elections that is managed by the General Administration of the State and that has a device of more than 9,000 people.
Quiñones has thanked the work that will be carried out throughout the day this Sunday that the 2,493 members of the tables, the 424 representatives of the Administration and the support staff, the almost hundred people who work today in the Government Delegation, as well as the more than 1,300 members of the State Security Forces, the National Police and the Civil Guard, and the local police of Cantabria.
He recalled that a total of 510,834 Cantabrians are called to vote in the Local Elections on May 28, of which 18,383 are young people who will vote for the first time. In these municipal elections, 1,040 councillors and 102 mayors are elected in Cantabria.
The delegate of the Government has hoped that the day will pass with total normality and that the Cantabrians and the Cantabrians will be able to vote with freedom and security.
The progress of participation and the provisional results of these elections can be consulted through the website https://resultados.locales2023.es/ , which has been in operation since 9 a.m. today.
In addition, Quiñones has indicated that the Government Delegation will inform of the participation until 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. The polling stations will close at 8 p.m. and, from that moment, the counting of the votes will begin.
As for the ballot, the votes of the Municipal Elections will be counted first, and then those of the entities with a territorial scope lower than the municipality (EATIMs) and, finally, those of the Elections to the Parliament of Cantabria.
From 9:00 p.m., the first data of the count corresponding to the municipal elections of those tables that have completed the ballot will begin to be offered in real time through the website: https://resultados.locales2023.es/
The data of the elections in the entities of territorial scope lower than the municipality and of the Elections to the Parliament of Cantabria will be offered by the Government of Cantabria.