Spain election results, 29 November 2026: when they come out and how the count works

Results of Spain's general election of Sunday 29 November 2026 start to come in after polling stations close at 20:00, as the polling tables are counted. Those first figures are the Ministry of the Interior's provisional count: they are for information, and the official result comes weeks later, in the official gazette (BOE).

The timeline on the night and after

Where to follow the official results

They come from the Spanish Ministry of the Interior, which opens its own results website and app for each election. For the July 2023 election it announced them three days before. For 29 November it has not done so yet (checked on 24 October 2026).

On 20 October the ministry presented 29neleccionesgenerales.es as the official website of this election, but it has not said whether results will be published there. Until it does, the reference is that site and the 29-N page on Infoelectoral, the ministry's election portal. The Catalan government does not publish its own count for general elections; its open data comes later.

Where the figures come from

When the polling station closes, each polling table counts the ballots and draws up a return. A copy goes to a government representative, who sends it to the ministry's tallying centre. The ministry adds up the returns and applies the seat formulas as they arrive.

The law says why this count exists: the government must give provisional information on the results. It is not the official result.

How to read the provisional count

• Always check the share of polling tables counted. With 30 % counted, the figures can still change a lot, because not every area sends its returns at the same pace.
• It leaves out votes from Spaniards living abroad (CERA). Those are counted in the general count a few days later, which is why turnout on the night and final turnout differ.
• Seats on the night are provisional. CERA votes can change them, and the electoral boards can correct returns and settle complaints.

When results become official

From 4 to 7 December the provincial electoral boards carry out the general count: they check the returns and add the CERA votes. They then settle complaints and declare who is elected, between 8 and 16 December under the official calendar. The Central Electoral Board publishes the results in the BOE within the following 40 days. As the ministry puts it, the official results are the ones published in the BOE.

The final data, as open data, is published by the ministry on Infoelectoral (CC BY 4.0 licence). Once it is there, we will add it to our page of past general election results in Catalonia.

For 30 towns, the largest and the main resorts, the 29 November results will also be added to our election results by town, beside the 2023 local election.

What Catalonia elects

Catalonia elects 48 members of Congress: 32 for Barcelona, 6 for Girona, 4 for Lleida and 6 for Tarragona. It also elects 16 senators, four per province.

Who is standing in each province: the 29 November candidate lists in Catalonia.

Polls and the day of reflection

From 24 to 28 November it is illegal to publish, broadcast or reproduce election polls in any medium. The campaign runs from 13 to 27 November, and 28 November is the day of reflection.

Keep reading

• How to vote in Catalonia
• General election results in Catalonia
• Polling-station duty in Spain
• Catalan Parliament election results