THE the right was the big winner of this election evening in Extremadura. He PP of Maria Guardiola won the regional elections of December 21 with 43.2% of the votes and 29 seats, one more … than during the last elections of 2023. For its part, Vox with Óscar Fernández at the helmgains significant momentum in the community and remains the third force in the Extremadura assembly with a 17% of votes (nine points more than in previous elections) which translates to 11 seatsmore than double what it had in 2023.
Both forces succeed rise through sinking which he notes PSOE by Miguel Ángel Gallardothe big loser of the evening, who although he remains the second force with 18 seats, loses 10 compared to 2023 and it is at its historic minimum in the regional chamber.
United for Extremadura, the electoral coalition that makes up We can–IU–AV, led by Irene de Miguel, It also benefits from the fall of the Socialists, reaching 10.3% of the votes, which gives it seven seats, three more than in 2023.
In 2023, the The PSOE was the first force in 254 municipalities of Extremadura while on this occasion he lost his head in 137-in 134 of them that The first place was taken by Guardiola’s party-. The most symbolic fall was that of Meridawhere the PSOE lost 20.6% of the vote and remained with 21.4% of the vote.
For his part, the People’s Party He gained a significant share of this electorate as he recorded an increase in the Roman city of 10%, obtaining 42.1% of the vote.
In Don Benito, the PSOE, also suffered the surprise of the PP: he lost 17% of the votes, placing his result at almost 22%, while the PP managed to improve its vote in the city by more than five percentage points compared to 2023 (43.8%) and Vox recorded an increase of more than 11 points (20.3%), thus remaining less than two points behind Gallardo’s formation.
Other large cities in Extremadura where the PP was able to capitalize on the fall of the PSOE and take first place were Almendralejo, Villanueva de la Serena, Villafranca de los Barros, Olivenza or Guareña.
The training of Guardiola manages to double the number of municipalities in which it positions itself as the leading force: from 133 in 2023, to 266 in 2025. Among the localities where the PP obtains the most votes are those of Badajoz Carmonita (68.44% of the votes), Higuera de Llerena (62.98%) and Casa de Reina (62.74%).
Likewise, it positions itself as the leading force in the two provincial capitals. The popular formation only lost its direction compared to the previous elections in three municipalities of Cáceres.
In Strike (where it lost almost 20 percentage points), it is the PSOE which captures part of this electorate, recording one of its rare increases in a city of more than nine points.
The same thing happens in DownloadMaria where Guardiola’s party loses more than 12% of its electorate, which places the PSOE as the first force in the city thanks to an increase of 3%.
Finally, in Valdehuncardespite the fact that its vote improves compared to 2023, Vox is able to benefit more from the fall of the PSOE in the city (-8.4%) and positions itself as the first force with 43.5% of the votes, wresting the leadership from the PP (31.3%).
Voice is the training that makes the failure of the PSOE largely profitableimproving its results across practically the entire territory (376 municipalities). In 2023 it has not managed to be the first force in any municipality while this time it is in four Cáceres, yes, all with less than 1,000 inhabitants.
This has been the preferred option in the cases already mentioned. Valdehuncarin addition to Fresnedoso de Ibor, Garvín and Pueblonuevo de Miramontes, cities which, in previous elections, had chosen the PSOE as the first force. Abascal’s formation surpasses the PSOE in 29 municipalities, including the city of Badajoz where it won more than 8% of the votes, compared to a drop of almost 13% for the PSOE.
In AlmendralejoVox also knows how to take advantage of the decline of more than 18% of Gallardo’s party, managing to position itself as the second force with an increase of more than 10 vote points (23.6%). The formation also manages to surpass the PSOE in percentage of votes in the municipalities of Almaraz nuclear power plant areawhere he received 24.5% of the votes, against 24.2% for Gallardo’s party.
United by Extremadurathe electoral coalition that makes up Podemos-IU-AV, led by Irene de Miguel, also sees its results increase, improving its vote in up to 357 localities.
The purple party manages to be the second force in three municipalities of Badajoz: La Coronada, Atalaya and El Carrascalejorelegating the PSOE to third position in the latter.
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