Galicia did not fail Feijóo. At least in his fiefdom, the results clearly favored the PP in the first elections, with his successor Alfonso Rueda leading the Xunta and the party. The popular ones snatched three deputies from the socialists, so that from the tie at 10 in November 2019 it has gone to a 13-7 in favor of the party that governs Galicia. Add endorses the two deputies that Podemos had, although the Galician Yolanda Díaz does not improve the percentage of votes of the last generals in her territory. The BNG maintains the deputy it had in A Coruña and Vox continues to be excluded from the Galician constituencies.
The PP won in three of the provinces, A Coruña, Lugo and Ourense, but not in Pontevedra, where the three deputies tied with the Socialists.. The distribution is 4-2 in A Coruña and 3-1 in Lugo and Ourense in favor of the PP. Regarding the last generals, the transfer was from a PSdeG deputy in each of those three provinces that has gone to the sack of the popular. It is a very discreet result for the new general secretary of the Galician socialists, Valentín González Formoso, with less than a year to go before the regional elections, the first in which the PP will run with Alfonso Rueda as a candidate.
The PSdeG had come to achieve a historic event in April 2019: the first victory in votes, which it would lose by a few points in the electoral repetition of November of the same year. Formoso arrives, therefore, weakened for the next appointment of the regional. But in the Galician PP optimism is not triggered either, given the expectations that had been generated. The result distances, although it does not rule out, the possibility of an electoral advance, which was counted on in political circles in the event of a large majority that took the Galician Feijóo to La Moncloa.
The PP has returned in Galicia to percentages above 40%. With 98% scrutinized, it reaches 43.54% of support, which is almost 12 points more than in November 2019. The punishment in seats is especially strong for the PSOE if it is considered that it has lost three deputies with a drop in votes of just 1.40 points, up to 29.84%. Yolanda Díaz's party, meanwhile, loses one point, going from 12.64% of Podemos-EU to 10.93%. Even in his province, A Coruña, he dropped from 12.71% to 12.16% on 23-J, although he raised his percentage to 17.01% in Ferrol, his hometown, compared to 15.95% added by Podemos. In A Coruña it adds one of its two Galician seats, while the other falls in Pontevedra, the only province where there is a tie between socialists and popular.
The polarization of the campaign frustrated the expectations of the BNG, which has to settle for the deputy it had in the province of A Coruña. His most optimistic calculations, backed by some survey, pointed to the achievement of representation in Pontevedra and even in Ourense, but finally the Galician nationalists were left with 9.48% of votes, 1.39% less than in the last general elections.. The national spokesperson of the BNG, Ana Pontón, has already offered that deputy to the left-wing bloc.
The distribution between blocks is favorable in Galicia for the PP, with its 13 deputies compared to the 10 that PSdeG, Díaz's party and the BNG add up to.. It is not a bad result for Rueda, if one takes into account that the regional elections are traditionally the elections in which the popular ones are the strongest in Galicia. However, in those elections initially scheduled for next summer, he will play with the handicap of an electoral poster in which Feijóo will no longer be part of, the architect of the last four absolute majorities of the PP in Galicia.
Where tradition has not failed is the massive support of the provinces of Ourense and Lugo for the Popular Party. In the first elections without José Manuel Baltar in the Provincial Council, that province gave practically half of the votes to Rueda and Feijóo's party: 49.87%. The 50% barrier was exceeded in Lugo, where the PP swept 50.28%, almost 12 points more than in the last general elections