The parties face this Monday the last day to register their electoral lists for the general elections on November 29. The deadline ends at midnight and includes the candidacies for Congress and the Senate. The next step will be their publication in the Official State Bulletin, scheduled for Wednesday, October 28.
The voters will then be able to consult the lists of candidates presented in each constituency. It will be necessary to distinguish two moments: the first publication includes the registered candidacies; the subsequent one includes those that have been proclaimed after the review by the electoral boards.
When the electoral lists for 29N are published
The first date that voters must keep in mind is October 28, when the BOE will publish the presented candidacies.
This procedure allows knowing the names registered by the parties, but the electoral review still needs to be completed. The proclamation is scheduled for November 2 and the proclaimed candidacies will appear in the BOE on November 3.
Therefore, anyone consulting the lists this Wednesday will have to check the November publication afterwards to know the candidacies that have passed that procedure.
Where to consult candidates by provinces
Demócrata has a candidate search engine for the Congress by provinces, which gathers the candidacies of the parties for the 29N. The tool allows locating the names according to the province in which they are running.
The official reference will be the publication of the Official State Bulletin corresponding to each phase. When consulting a candidacy, one must pay attention to the chamber to which it is presented, the constituency, and the name of the party.
The coverage of the elections is also gathered in the special of the general elections of Demócrata.
What is the difference between presented and proclaimed lists
Presenting a candidacy does not equate to obtaining its proclamation. The Organic Law of the General Electoral Regime assigns to the provincial electoral boards the presentation and proclamation of candidates for Congress and the Senate.
After the initial publication, the boards review the candidacies and communicate the irregularities detected. The law establishes a period of 48 hours to rectify them and requires that the candidacies meet the legal requirements to be proclaimed.
This difference explains the two publications in the BOE: one allows knowing what has been registered; the other includes the result of the review.
Can candidates change after registration
The deadline limits changes in the lists. Article 48 of the LOREG allows modifications during the rectification process due to the death or resignation of the holder, or as a consequence of the correction of irregularities.
After the proclamation, the vacancies in the lists are filled with the successive candidates and, when applicable, with the substitutes. The proclamation agreements can also be appealed to the contentious-administrative jurisdiction within the period established by law.