Glossari
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Electoral process
It is equivalent to the term elections in the broad sense. It includes a series of actions that take place in the time period from the calling of the elections until the announcement of candidates and the publication of final results.
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Electoral roll
Set of individuals eligible to vote and who are not deprived of the right to vote. The electoral roll is unique for all kinds of elections.
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Electoral roll certificate
Document issued by the electoral administration to prove that a person can vote even though they are not registered for the polling station committee where they want to vote. It amends the committee’s electoral roll.
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Electoral roll district
Geographical grouping of electoral roll sections. It is an intermediate unit between the section and the municipality. The different electoral levels are (from largest to smallest): constituency, municipality, district, section and polling station committee.
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Electoral roll office
Body responsible for drawing up the electoral roll. It is an administrative organisation coming under the National Statistics Institute (INE) which has offices in every province.
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Electoral roll section
Electoral roll unit into which a constituency is divided and which contains at most 2,000 voters and at least 500. Under no circumstances may it have less than 200 voters. Each section may have one or more polling station committees. In the same way the sections are grouped into electoral roll districts.
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Electoral system
Set of interrelated and legally established principles, norms, rules and technical procedures through which voters express their political preferences through their ballots, which in turn are converted into seats or political power. The main features that make up an electoral system are: the establishment and the size of constituencies, the form of lists, the voting procedure, the threshold and the electoral formula. Electoral systems can be classified into two broad categories: majority systems and proportional systems. Our current system is a proportional representation one and the electoral formula used is the d’Hondt method or system.
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Eligible candidate
Person who stands in an election. All Spanish adults who are voters and are not in any of the cases provided by law that make them ineligible may stand in elections.
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Final results
Results announced by the electoral commissions based on review of the provisional results. Once the election has been completed, they are the only valid data for all purposes and override the provisional results from the day of the election.
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General count
A public act carried out by the electoral commissions on the third day following the vote to announce the final official results. It is done on the basis of provisional results and includes reviewing the records for any errors and correcting them if they are found.
