The National Electoral Council (CEN) highlighted the majority participation of the Cuban people in the national elections of last March 26, when 6 167 605 voters exercised their right to vote, which represented 75.87% of an updated total of 8 129 321 voters.
Alina Balseiro Gutiérrez, president of the CEN, informed in a press conference, in this capital, that the number of voters who went to the polls was higher than the two electoral processes that preceded it: the referendum of the Family Code and the municipal elections.
"All the deputies were elected with more than 61 % of the valid votes cast, by the free, equal, direct and secret vote of the voters", whom he congratulated for their participation in the elections.
Of the total number of ballots deposited in the ballot boxes, 90.28 % were valid, 6.22 % were blank and 3.50 % were annulled.
Balseiro Gutiérrez expressed that, although the candidates for deputies received the majority of the votes, since the vote for all (72.10 %) prevailed, the selective vote also constituted an option of the voters (27.90 %).
He added that the elections took place in a favorable electoral environment. Likewise, transparency and adherence to the Law by the authorities, collaborators, supervisors, processing groups and other personnel prevailed.
He specified that these results are offered with total transparency and adherence to the truth, and assured that the electoral steps were complied with, a process in which systematic, public and truthful information to all the people prevailed.
The process was developed in 12,427 districts and 23,648 polling stations were determined. Eighty districts were created in 27 municipalities and more than 200,000 electoral authorities were involved, including more than 62,000 constituency authorities and more than 118,000 polling station authorities, who carried out their work on a voluntary basis.
The President of the Electoral Council highlighted the work of the pioneers of all ages in these elections, in the custody of the ballot boxes, in addition to the support personnel, officials, directors and workers of the agencies, organizations and institutions that, in one way or another, collaborated with the electoral councils at their different levels in this exercise of democratic participation.