Spain General Election (29N)

The election was called on Monday, October 5, 2026, from Moncloa, three days after the Congress rejected the housing decrees, and the dissolution decree was published in the BOE on October 6.

The campaign opens on November 13 and ends at midnight between November 27 and 28; Saturday the 28th is the Day of Reflection, when campaigning is banned by law.

Spain uses the D'Hondt method of proportional representation to allocate the 400 Congress seats across its 52 constituencies, guaranteeing at least two deputies per province.

Citizens staffing the polling stations (mesas electorales) are drawn by public lottery from municipal census records and are under 70 years old; accepting the role is mandatory.

Mainland polling stations operate from 09:00 to 20:00 CET with no breaks, and the first tallies are released after polls close one hour earlier in the Canary Islands time zone.