After five hours of voting on a sweltering Sunday in Spain, the turnout in the snap general election has risen significantly in the totality of Spain but has fallen by an even greater percentage in Catalonia.
In Spain at 2pm, the proportion of voters that had cast their votes was 40.46%. In the last elections, held on November 10th, 2019, at the same time, the official turnout was 37.92%, so it has risen by 2.55 points. A total of 14,009,216​ of people have cast their vote across the Spanish state in the five hours of polling since 9am.
