Seville and Cádiz are the Andalusian cities that have been favored the most times by the Extraordinary Christmas Draw of the National Lottery, since the ‘Gordo’ has fallen on them 17 and 12 times, respectively, in the entire history of the draw, according to data from State Lotteries and Gambling consulted by Europa Press. After these capitals is Málaga, 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 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 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).
Of 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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