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| Spanish election: Sánchez set to fall short of majority – live updates | Spanish election: Sánchez set to fall short of majority – live updates |
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| All the news, reaction and comment from Spain’s fourth general election in as many years | All the news, reaction and comment from Spain’s fourth general election in as many years |
| The RTVE poll suggests the left (the PSOE party and anti-austerity Podemos) are on set to lose seats compared to April’s vote, with the conservative People’s party and far-right VOx making big gains. | |
| The big loser of the night looks set to be the liberal Ciudadanos (Citizens) party, which seems to be paying the electoral price for refusing to even contemplate entering a coalition with the PSOE seven months ago. | |
| Polls are now closed. | |
| This isn’t an exit poll, but a survey conducted in the days immediately before the election which could not be published during the run-up to the vote. | |
| If it’s borne out it looks like being an uncomfortable night for the centre-left prime minister Pedro Sanchez - it gives the right wing parties the most votes, although well short of a majority. | |
| The poll, for Spanish state broadcaster RTVE, was of 13,000 people, conducted between 25 October and 10 November. | |
| Perhaps as a consequence of voter apathy, turnout at 6pm was 56.8%, nearly four points down on the same figure in the April 28 poll - but this is pretty much in line with recent November elections, so may not be significant. | |
| The Guardian’s Madrid correspondent, Sam Jones, has an evocative scene-setter for today’s elections from Guadalajara, about 60km north-east of Madrid, where he found voters feeling “fed up and defrauded” after four elections in as many years: | |
| You can read Sam’s full report here. | |
| One thing to watch out for this evening will be the performance of the anti-immigrant, far-right Vox party. | |
| After entering the national parliament for the first time in April with 24 seats, Vox, which favours a radical recentralisation of Spain, has seen its popularity soar, largely on the re-eruption of the Catalan crisis, and could well double its previous score. | |
| The parliamentary spokeswoman for the centre-left PSOE party, Adriana Lastra, made clear that this was an election in which everyone’s vote would count: “We have to stop them,” she tweeted, none too subtly. “Go and vote.” | |
| Good evening and welcome to the Guardian’s live coverage of the Spanish general election. | Good evening and welcome to the Guardian’s live coverage of the Spanish general election. |
| Polls close soon in Spain’s fourth general elections in less than four years, with the centre-left PSOE of prime minister Pedro Sánchez on course to remain the largest party. | Polls close soon in Spain’s fourth general elections in less than four years, with the centre-left PSOE of prime minister Pedro Sánchez on course to remain the largest party. |
| But after an inconclusive result in April and unsuccessful coalition talks with the anti-austerity Podemos, which now seems to be shedding support, Sánchez again looks unlikely to win enough seats to be able to form a left-leaning government. | But after an inconclusive result in April and unsuccessful coalition talks with the anti-austerity Podemos, which now seems to be shedding support, Sánchez again looks unlikely to win enough seats to be able to form a left-leaning government. |
| The right, too, seems set to fall short of a majority, with pre-election polling suggesting the conservative People’s party (PP) will do well and the far-right Vox could surge to become the country’s third-largest party, but support for the liberal Cuidadanos is in freefall. | The right, too, seems set to fall short of a majority, with pre-election polling suggesting the conservative People’s party (PP) will do well and the far-right Vox could surge to become the country’s third-largest party, but support for the liberal Cuidadanos is in freefall. |
| Is Europe’s fifth-largest economy heading for more months of deadlock and uncertainty? Stay with us for all the news, reaction and comment as latest pre-election polls come in and we await final results due around 10pm CET. | Is Europe’s fifth-largest economy heading for more months of deadlock and uncertainty? Stay with us for all the news, reaction and comment as latest pre-election polls come in and we await final results due around 10pm CET. |