“Guadalajara’s Population Increases Before Elections: Third Province in Spain with Most Cases”

Guadalajara is the third province in Spain with the most cases

A total of seventeen towns in the province of Guadalajara have increased “in a significant and unjustified way” its number of residents six months before the call for municipal and regional elections. Is about Algora, Anquela del Ducado, Aranzueque, Brihuega, Budia, Campisábalos, Driebes, Jirueque, Mazuecos, Mirabueno, El Olivar, El Recuenco, Sacecorbo, Salmerón, Tarabilla, Zaorejas and Torre del Burgo.

This is how it is collected by the Electoral Census Office, dependent on the National Institute of Statistics (INE). The website of the latter body publishes an extensive list of 237 municipalities or minor local entities where these have occurred. “significant increases” population (Enlace INE)

They belong to 22 provinces throughout Spain and precisely Guadalajara, after Burgos and León, is the third where there have been more cases of this type. In Castilla-La Mancha the localities where these census variations occur are almost forty and they belong to all the provinces, except Toledo.

The table records each case according to the response given by the City Council to the Electoral Census Office (OCE): having obtained a response “unjustified” about that increase or, directly, not having responded to the requirement.

In the case of the towns of Alcarria, a total of thirteen have unjustifiably responded to the OCE while another four (Algora, Budia, El Olivar and Torre del Burgo) have not directly deigned to respond to the Census Office. “within the established deadlines”. Now, according to instruction 1/2011, of March 24, of the Central Electoral Board, the representatives of the different candidacies can present challenges to this census; They have until April 17 to do so.