More than 300,000 foreigners will be able to vote in the elections to the European Parliament that will be held in our country on June 9, half of them nationals of Romania and Italy. According to data from the Electoral Census Office, in these elections specifically a total of 302,991 people from other countries of the European Union, well below the 365,000 foreigners in 2019, the last time the British participated.
The largest group are Romanian nationals, with 85,281, which represent 28.14% of the total of this group of foreign voters, and they are followed by Italians, who are 61,802, 20.39%. The third position is for the 34,735 originating from Germany (11.46%), while there are also 30,713 French people with the right to vote (10.13%). Already below 20,000, 18,477 Portuguese, 13,903 Bulgarians and 13,511 from the Netherlands appear on the INE list.
The countries with the fewest foreign voters in Spain are Cyprus, with 64 people; Malta, with 43; Luxembourg, with 168; Slovenia, with 314 and Croatia, with 359. The community with the most foreign residents with the right to vote on June 9 is Andalusia, with a total of 43,292 voters, mostly Romanians. It is followed by the Canary Islands, with 38,411 registered, led in this case by Italians, who are also the majority nationality group among the 53,709 people who can vote in the European elections in Catalonia.
Romanians are also the majority among voters from outside Spain who live in the Valencian Community (where there are a total of 48,055 foreigners with the option to vote) and in the Madrid Community, where there are 48,509, a quarter of which are almost 21,000 people from Romania.
By provinces, Madrid is the one with the most non-Spanish European censuses (the already mentioned 48,509) and in second place is Barcelona, with 32,703. They are followed by Santa Cruz de Tenerife, with 25,777 and Alicante, with 25,749 people.
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