How to check your electoral roll to vote in the 2023 general elections in Spain?

SPAIN / By Cruz Ramiro
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Crucial moment in the future of the country with the general elections that are held in Spain this Sunday, July 23. Citizens go to the polls to exercise their right to vote for the first time in the middle of summer after Pedro Sánchez's decision to advance the elections after the results of the municipal and regional votes that took place at the end of last May.

They will be elections that are very even, with the PSOE trying to maintain the Government with the support of Sumar and the nationalist bloc, but with the PP and Vox indicated as possible winners after the counts. If that were the case, the right would return to power after the last time it occurred in the twelfth legislature of democracy, with Mariano Rajoy as president, ending a motion of censure in June 2018 headed by the socialist leader and current president of the Spanish Government.

Before reaching July 23, citizens can make sure that their name appears on the electoral roll, as well as check 100% in which polling station and table they can exercise their right to vote in the general elections.. All this can be done through a simple and fast procedure.

How to check your electoral roll?

The decision that the date of the elections to decide the new Government of the country should be July 23 upset the plans of some citizens, who were forced to request the vote by mail. As far as being members of polling stations is concerned, yes, the Executive gave a break to people who had already paid for their summer vacations, allowing them to get rid of being at the polling station that day.

Anyone who is going to go to the polling station normally and wants to make sure online where to do it must follow the following steps. It can be checked through the website of the National Institute of Statistics (ine.es). There appears the option to access the 'Electoral Census', located in one of the tabs at the top of the screen, which will lead to a new one.

After that, you will have to click on 'Consult registration data in the electoral roll'. Once inside, it will be specified that the search is for the July 23 elections, having to click on 'Consult the registration in the Electoral Census' and, later, on 'Authenticate in Cl@ve', for which it is necessary to have the electronic ID, the digital certificate, or the Cl@ve PIN available on the computer. When choosing the option with which to access, each and every one of the citizen's data and the details to carry out the vote at the corresponding polling station will come out.