After the closure of the vast majority of polling stations in Andalusia, the first polls on what was voted on this March 17 began to be known at 8 p.m. Three polling stations close later, so official channels will not provide data until 8:43 p.m.
The absolute majority in the Andalusian Parliament is 55 seats, as the Chamber has 109 deputies. That is precisely what Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla is pursuing this May 17: to revalidate an absolute majority that he already achieved in 2022 with 58 deputies, something unprecedented for the PP-A in Andalusia. The Andalusian president aspires to consolidate the change of cycle initiated in 2018, when the PSOE lost the Junta for the first time after almost four decades; to govern alone and without depending on VOX, avoiding pacts or concessions to the hard right; to turn Andalusia into the great territorial bastion of the PP against the central government of Pedro Sánchez and to reinforce his own profile within the party as a moderate leader, capable of attracting socialist and center votes, something that already happened in 2022 after absorbing a large part of Ciudadanos' space.
Polls published during the campaign have repeatedly placed the PP between 53 and 57 seats, with the threshold of the absolute majority —55— as the great symbolic reference of election night.