Four candidates compete for Fuerteventura’s Senate seat
Fuerteventura voters will choose from four candidates for the island’s Senate seat on 29 November, down from nine at the 2023 election.
Four candidates are standing for Fuerteventura’s single seat in Spain’s Senate at the general election on 29 November, compared with nine at the previous election in July 2023.
The field includes the sitting senator, PSOE’s Paloma Hernández Cerezo, who has held the seat since 2019. Her challengers are Esther Hernández Marrero for the Partido Popular (PP), Nuria Cabrera Méndez for the Coalición Canaria–Municipalistas Primero Canarias alliance, and Rubén Reyes Gutiérrez for Unidad del Pueblo Canario.
Hernández Marrero is a former mayor of Tuineje and a former senator. Cabrera Méndez is the Fuerteventura Cabildo’s finance councillor. Unidad del Pueblo Canario brings together NC-BC, Podemos, IU and Sumar.
A smaller field than in 2023
Vox is not standing for the Senate in the Canary Islands following a pact with the PP. Nueva Canarias has joined an alliance with parties on the alternative left, while Drago has chosen not to contest the Senate seat.
In July 2023, Hernández Cerezo won the island’s seat with 10,737 votes, or 27.8%. The PP’s Jorge Marante Martín came second with 8,848 votes, followed by Coalición Canaria’s Isaí Blanco with around 7,980. Vox candidate Miguel Felipe Rastrero received 4,341 votes.
Hernández Cerezo also won the seat in November 2019, with 9,336 votes. Coalición Canaria’s Lola García came second with 6,941, narrowly ahead of the PP’s Jéssica de León on 6,716.