Elections to the Basque Parliament on 21 April 2024

Next 21 April 2024, 1,795,206 voters will be eligible to vote in the elections to the Basque Parliament. Of them, 1,712,324 reside in the Basque Country and 82,882 abroad.

Among the readers resident in the Basque Country, 75,634 will be able to participate for the first time in elections to the Basque Parliament, having turned 18 years old since the previous vote held on 12 July 2020.

Voters residing abroad may vote in the Basque Parliament elections without the need for prior request.

The Electoral Census Office (ECO) will send all voters the necessary documentation for voting in two separate mailings, which can also be obtained directly from the voting centres established by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation from 13 to 18 April, which are the days for depositing the vote in the ballot box.

The electoral census of residents in Spain can be consulted from 4 to 11 March in the city councils and in the provincial delegations of the OCE. Voters living abroad will be able to check their registration details at consular offices on these same dates.

Also available at the INE Electronic office is a service for consultation of registration data in the electoral census, after accreditation of the voter's identity, with the Cl@ve system (electronic DNI, among others). And, in the case of voters residing in Spain, it also shows the electoral board and address of the polling station.

Voters may present claims to their registration data in the city councils, consulates or provincial delegations of the OCE within the same period, from 4 to 11 March.

Voters living in Spain may also submit claims through the INE Electronic Office with the Cl@ve system and providing a valid certificate of registration in the Municipal Register of their residence.

Those who make the request to refuse to receive election propaganda until 11 March will not receive it from political parties in the election campaign of these elections, in accordance with the provisions of the legislative change carried out in December 2018.

Requests after 11 March will take effect in the following elections to be held.

The request for exclusion can be made online, with the Cl@ve system, at the INE Electronic office or in the town halls, consular offices and provincial delegations of the ECO.

In these elections, the procedure for delivering copies of the electoral roll to the representatives of the proclaimed candidacies who request them will be by downloading them from an INE portal.

As a requirement, when requesting the copies, two email accounts must be provided that will be used to send the portal candidature information and passwords for accessing the files and opening them.

Polling cards with information of the polling station and the polling place where the voter votes will be sent from 27 March.

On the INE website there is information of interest on the activities of the OCE in these elections: counting of voters, telematic procedures that require an electronic certificate, consultation of the polling station and the place where the vote is to be held, information on how to vote by post, deadlines and legal regulations.

In addition, the INE Electronic office offers the following procedures that do not require accreditation with an electronic certificate:

• General consultation of polling stations and polling stations.
• Consult the status of the postal vote and the registered mailing number when it has been sent to the Post Office.
• Completion of the request to vote by post for subsequent delivery to the Post Office.

In addition, the provincial delegations of the OCE deal with consultations on the actions within their competence (registration in the census, complaints, polling stations and premises, postal voting, etc.) at their offices and on the free telephone number 900.343.232.