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Voter turnout reaches 41.48 percent after midday in Spain's general election
Last Updated: 2019-04-29 00:28 | Xinhua
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Voter turnout in Spain's general election reached 41.48 percent on Sunday at 14:30 p.m. local time (1230 GTM), 4.61 percentage points higher than the 36.87 percent of 2016 general election, the Government of Spain reported.

This is the second highest provisional participation since 1978, only behind 1993 elections when at 14:30 p.m. 41.83 percent of voters had already cast their ballots.

"We have seen a general increase in all the autonomous communities (Spanish regions) in the context of a significant rise at a national level," said the Secretary of State for Communication, Miguel Angel Oliver, at a press conference.

The increase in participation has been especially noticeable in Catalonia, northeast of Spain, where it reached 43.5 percent, 11.2 percentage points more than the 32.3 percent registered in 2016.

According to the government, no incidents have been reported so far with the voting in "absolute normality".

"We have no record of any significant incident, just the most absolute democratic normality," the undersecretary of the Interior Ministry Isabel Goicoechea stated.

Nearly 36.9 million Spaniards are called to the polls on Sunday, and according to recent data, the election is expected to be one of the busiest in the recent history of the country.

Spain's voter turnout has seen decline since 1975 when 80 percent of voters casted their ballots. The turnout of the last general election in 2016 was 66.5 percent.

Voter turnout, which did not reach 70 percent in the last three general elections, may break the trend today if this high rate continues.

So far, voters are meeting the expectations of the five main candidates, the socialist Pedro Sanchez (PSOE), the conservative Pablo Casado (PP), the liberal Albert Rivera (Citizens), the leftist Pablo Iglesias (United We Can) and the extreme right-wing Santiago Abascal (VOX).

After casting their respective ballots, they all agreed to encourage citizens to leave home and exercise their right to vote.

(Editor:王苏)

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Voter turnout reaches 41.48 percent after midday in Spain's general election
Source:Xinhua | 2019-04-29 00:28
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