Non-judicial members of the seven zonal electoral boards have been appointed

The Provincial Electoral Board of A Coruña has agreed on the designation of the fourteen non-judicial members who make up the seven zone electoral boards of the province, for the elections to the Congress of Deputies and the Senate called for November 29, 2026. The decision is detailed in a certification from the secretary of the Provincial Board, Lourdes Villegas Castrillo, which the Official Gazette of the Province of A Coruña publishes this Friday, November 13, in issue number 218, with the official reference 2026/7418.

Framework of general elections already underway

The call stems from Royal Decree 806/2026, of October 5, for the dissolution of the Congress of Deputies and the Senate and the calling of elections, published in the Official State Gazette number 248 on October 6. The voting will take place on November 29, 2026, once the legal period of fifty-four days provided for in the electoral regulations has closed.

The electoral structure of the province was completed in recent weeks. The zone boards were constituted with their members of judicial origin, according to the certifications published by the provincial gazette on October 14, and the Provincial Electoral Board did the same with magistrate Ángel Judel Prieto as president, magistrates María del Carmen Taboada Caseiro and Rafael-Jesús Fernández-Porto García as members, and Lourdes Villegas Castrillo herself as secretary. To these judicial bases, the non-judicial members are now added, completing the composition of each zone body.

The entire procedure is based on Organic Law 5/1985, of June 19, on the General Electoral Regime, which assigns to the zone boards the guardianship of the electoral process within their territorial scope and the resolution of claims and appeals presented during the campaign and the voting day.

Two members for each of the seven districts

The agreement distributes two people per board, for a total of fourteen appointments:

• Betanzos: Lucía Romay Roldán and Luis Sánchez Presedo.
• Carballo: Juan Carlos Castro Pombo and María Carmen Vila Blanco.
• Corcubión: María Manuela Leis Caruncho and Humberto Creus Andrade.
• A Coruña: Jorge López Abad and María de la Flor Lago Méndez.
• Ferrol: Cristóbal Pintado González and Julio Barros Casal.
• Noia: Carlos Atán Castro and Marta Díaz Paz.
• Santiago: Manuel Silva Constenla and Fernando Martínez Arribas.

The list thus covers the seven zone boards mentioned in the announcement, from the regional headquarters of Betanzos, Carballo, and Corcubión to the two large urban areas of the province, A Coruña and Ferrol, as well as Noia and Santiago de Compostela.

From the agreement of November 11 to the gazette

The certification states that the Provincial Electoral Board adopted the agreement “on this day” and that the document was signed in A Coruña on November 11, 2026, two days before its publication in the provincial bulletin. The announcement, which occupies a single page, is inserted in the Electoral Administration section, under the Electoral Boards heading, titled “General Elections November 2026.”

The publication in the Official Bulletin of the Province of A Coruña number 218 of November 13 provides formal publicity to the appointments and opens the framework for eventual substitutions or challenges, which should be channeled through the electoral bodies themselves.

Campaign and propaganda, already published

In the preceding weeks, the zone boards had already released the lists of official locations and sites for electoral propaganda, in accordance with article 57.2 of the electoral regulations. The provincial bulletin includes the lists of the Zone Electoral Board of Santiago de Compostela, the Zone Electoral Board of Noia, and the Zone Electoral Board of Corcubión, among others, with hundreds of spaces provided by the city councils for campaign events, posters, banners, and flags.

With this data, the parties running in the A Coruña constituencies already have the complete reference to request spaces and file claims before the competent zone bodies.

Relevance for the provincial census

The designation completes the composition of the zone electoral boards of A Coruña two weeks before the electoral date and directly affects the entire census of the province, called to the polls on November 29. These bodies are the first recipients of complaints from parties, candidacies, and voters during the campaign, and those who will rule on the validity of ballots, propaganda, and incidents of the election day before the results are proclaimed.

Source: Official Bulletin of the Province of A Coruña, number 218, November 13, 2026, Electoral Administration, p. 1 (official reference: 2026/7418).