Each Andalusian will spend an average of 57.32 euros this year in the Extraordinary Draw of the 2022 Christmas Lottery, which places the region 12.04 euros below the national average, estimated at 69.36 euros per person.
According to the consignment data per inhabitant of State Lotteries and Gambling, the figure that this year will be spent on average in Andalusia is 4.34 euros higher than that registered last year, when it reached 52.98 euros. This figure also exceeds that of 2021 (52.07 euros).
In this frame, Granada residents are the ones who buy the most tenths, with an average of 73.42 euros per person. Next are the people from Jaen with 71.21 euros per inhabitant, from Almeria with 69.07 euros, from Cordoba with 61.41 euros, from Malaga with 57.65 euros, from Seville with 51.88 euros, from Cádiz with 45.50 euros and from Huelva with 37.23 euros per inhabitant.
In fact, the citizens of Huelva are the rooms that spend the least in the draw in the entire country, only surpassed by Ceuta, Melilla and Las Palmas.
In national figures and by communities, Castilla y León is in the lead with a consignment of 109.62 euros per inhabitant, followed by La Rioja with 102.54 euros per inhabitant, Asturias with 100.95 euros and Aragón with 94.20 euros .
On their side, those with the lowest consignment per inhabitant are Ceuta, with 16.03 euros, Melilla with 16.28 euros, the Balearic Islands with 39.63 euros, the Canary Islands with 43.70 euros, Catalonia with 54.74 euros and Andalusia with 57. €32.
Andalucía, with 485,638,400 euros, is the second autonomous community that will play the most money in the Extraordinary Draw, a figure that has risen by more than 37 million euros compared to last year, set at 448.4 million.
According to data provided by State Lotteries and Gambling, a total of 2,428,192 tickets have been consigned in the autonomous community, which means that each Andalusian will play an average of 57.32 euros.
By provinces, Seville is in the lead in terms of the amount consigned for this draw, with 101,056,000 euros, which means 505,280 tickets, closely followed by Malaga with 97,754,800 euros and 488,774 tickets.
They are followed in order by Granada with more than 67.6 million euros and 338,241 tickets, Cádiz with 56.6 million and 283,444 tickets, Almería with 50.5 million and 252,741 tickets, Córdoba with 47.7 million and 238,519 tenths, Jaén with 44.6 million and 223,309 tickets, and in
last place, Huelva with 19.5 million euros and 97,884 tickets consigned.
THE MOST GRACEFUL BY “EL GORDO”
Seville and Cádiz are the Andalusian cities that have been favored the most times by the Extraordinary Christmas Draw of the National Lottery, since in them they have relapsed the ‘Gordo’ on 17 and 12 occasions, respectively, throughout the history of the draw. Behind these capitals lies Malaga, ten times graced with the biggest prize in the Christmas Lottery.
Within this framework, Malaga accumulates 26 ‘Gordos’ in its province in 14 towns, highlighting Malaga with ten and Alora, Marbella and Ronda with two each; Seville has 23 in seven municipalities, 17 in the capital; Cádiz, 22 in nine locations, with 12 in the capital and three in Algeciras; Granada, 16 in eight locations, with nine in the capital and two in Almuñécar, and Córdoba, with 12 ‘Gordos’ in nine locations, with four in the capital.
In Jaén it has fallen ten times in nine locations, none in the capital and twice in Linares; Almería has been graced seven times in five locations, twice in Almería and another two in El Ejido, while Huelva has six ‘Gordos’ in five municipalities, one in the capital and two in Ayamonte. Last year, this Huelva municipality was the only one awarded this award in Andalusia.
In the national framework, the ranking of the luckiest places continues to be led for yet another year by the city of Madrid, where the ‘Gordo’ has fallen a total of 82 times in the more than 200-year history of the traditional draw. Behind her is Barcelona with 42, Seville with 17, Bilbao (14), Valencia (13), Zaragoza (13) and Cádiz (12). Of all of them, only in Madrid did the ‘Gordo’ fall in last year’s draw.
Likewise, in Malaga the first prize has fallen on ten occasions; Santander, Alicante and Granada, nine times; La Coruña, San Sebastián and Gijón, in seven; Palma de Mallorca, in six; Badajoz, Lugo and Manises (Valencia), in five, and Murcia, Vic (Barcelona), Sort (Lérida), Córdoba, Valladolid, Burgos, Pamplona, Salamanca and Teruel, in four.
The first prize has fallen three times in Algeciras (Cádiz), as well as in Albacete, Casas Ibáñez (Albacete), Benidorm (Alicante), Oviedo, Sabadell (Barcelona), Carballo (La Coruña), Huesca, Torrejón de Ardoz (Madrid) , Palencia, Logroño, Segovia, San Bartolomé de Tirajana (Las Palmas), Puerto de la Cruz (Santa Cruz de Tenerife), Telde (Las Palmas), Boñar (León), San Pedro del Pinatar (Murcia), Granadilla de Abona ( Tenerife), Vigo, Cáceres, Teruel and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, graced in 2021.
On two occasions, ‘El Gordo’ was distributed in Almería, El Ejido (Almería), Almuñécar (Granada), Ayamonte (Huelva) and Linares (Jaén), as well as in Vitoria, Elche (Alicante), Avilés, Nava (Asturias) , Granollers (Barcelona), Sant Quirze del Vallés (Barcelona), Coria (Cáceres), Castellón, Ciudad Real, Santiago de Compostela, Cuenca, Belmonte (Cuenca), León, Lérida, Vilalba (Lugo), Alcorcón (Madrid), Collado Villalba (Madrid), Leganés (Madrid) and San Sebastián de los Reyes (Madrid).
The first prize has also fallen twice in Alora (Málaga), Marbella (Málaga) and Ronda (Málaga), as well as in Cartagena (Murcia), Yecla (Murcia), Pontevedra, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Arrecife (Las Palmas) , Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Los Realejos (Tenerife), Soria, Talavera de la Reina (Toledo), O Porriño (Pontevedra), Alcira (Valencia), Zamora, San Vicente del Raspeig (Alicante) and Derio (Vizcaya).
