Seville and Cadiz are the Andalusian cities that have repeatedly been favored by the Extraordinary Christmas Drawing of the National Lottery, for they have fallen back into them the ‘Gordo’ on 17 and 12 occasions, respectively, throughout the history of the draw. Behind these capitals is located Malaga, ten times awarded with the biggest prize of the Christmas lottery.
In this framework, Malaga accumulates 26 “Gordos” in its province in 14 cities, highlighting Malaga with ten and Alora, Marbella and Ronda with two each; Seville has 23 in seven municipalities, 17 in the capital; Cadiz, 22 in nine locations, including 12 in the capital and three in Algeciras; Granada, 16 in eight locations, including nine in the capital and two in Almuñécar, and Córdoba, with 12 “Gordos” in nine locations, including four in the capital.
In Jaén he fell ten times in nine locations, none in the capital and twice in Linares; Almería has been embellished seven times in five localities, two in Almería and two more in El Ejido, while Huelva has six “Gordos” in five municipalities, one in the capital and two in Ayamonte. Last year, this municipality in Huelva was the only one in Andalusia to receive this award.
In the national framework, the ranking of the luckiest places continues to be led for another year by the city of Madrid, where the ‘Gordo’ fell 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 Cadiz (12). Of all, only in Madrid “Gordo” fell in last year’s draw.
Similarly, in Malaga the top prize fell 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 fell 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, awarded 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, Lleida, Vilalba (Lugo), Alcorcón (Madrid), Collado Villalba (Madrid), Leganés (Madrid) and San Sebastián de los Reyes (Madrid).
The first prize also fell 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).
AVERAGE EXPENDITURE OF EACH ANDALUSIAN
Every 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 data of shipments per inhabitant of state lotteries and gambling, the amount that will be spent on average in Andalusia this year is 4.34 euros more than that recorded last year, when it reached 52.98 euros. This figure also exceeds that of 2021 (52.07 euros).
In this frame, The citizens of Granada are those who buy the most tenths, with an average of 73.42 euros per person. The inhabitants of Jaen follow with 71.21 euros per inhabitant, of Almeria with 69.07 euros, of Cordoba with 61.41 euros, of Malaga with 57.65 euros, of Seville with 51.88 euros, of Cadiz with 45, 50 euros and Huelva with 37.23 euros per inhabitant.
In fact, the citizens of Huelva are the lowest-spending rooms in the tie in the entire country, surpassed only by Ceuta, Melilla and Las Palmas.
In national and community figures, Castilla y León leads with a shipment 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.
For their part, those with the lowest shipment 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 euros.
