Everything ready for the extraordinary draw of the Christmas Lottery in which the province of Malaga almost 81 million euros is ‘played’, which is eight percent more than in 2020. They had been consigned for the province 91 million in tenths.
Malaga accumulates in its province 26 ‘Gordos’ in 14 towns, highlighting Malaga with ten and Álora, 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 places, with nine in the capital and two in Almuñécar, and Córdoba, with 12 ‘Gordos’ in nine locations, with four in the capital.
Seville and Cadiz are the Andalusian cities that have been favored the most times by the Extraordinary Christmas Draw of the National Lottery, since they have received the ‘Gordo’ on 17 and 12 occasions, respectively, throughout the history of the draw, according to Lottery data and State Betting consulted by Europa Press.
In Jaén it has fallen ten times in nine locations, none in the capital and twice in Linares; Almería has been honored seven times in five localities, with twice in Almería and another two in El Ejido, while Huelva has five ‘Gordos’ in five municipalities, one in the capital.
The ‘Gordo’ fell last year in Granada, Córdoba, Punta Umbría (Huelva) and El Puerto de Santa María (Cádiz).
In the national framework, the ranking of the luckiest places is still led one more year by the city of Madrid, where the ‘Gordo’ has fallen a total of 81 times in more than 200 years history of the traditional draw. Behind her are Barcelona with 42, Seville with 17, Bilbao (14), Valencia (13), Zaragoza (13) and Cádiz (12). Of all of them, only in Madrid and Bilbao did the ‘Gordo’ fall in last year’s draw.
Also, in Malaga has received the first prize ten times; Santander, Alicante and Granada, on nine occasions; 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 and Teruel, in four.
The first prize has fallen three times in Algeciras (Cádiz), in addition to 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 and Teruel. In these last six the ‘Gordo’ of last year also fell.
On two occasions, ‘El Gordo’ was distributed in Almería, El Ejido (Almería), Almuñécar (Granada) 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), in addition to 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 and Derio (Vizcaya).
From provincial capital cities, it has only fallen once in Guadalajara, Huelva and Orense, although it has also fallen in other large towns at some time in history, such as Salou (Tarragona) in 2019.
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