El Hierro (Senate constituency)

El Hierro
Senate of Spain
Electoral constituency
Location of El Hierro within Spain
IslandEl Hierro
Autonomous communityCanary Islands
Population10,968 (2019)[1]
Electorate10,850 (Nov 2019)
Major settlementsValverde
Current constituency
Created1979
Seats1
Member(s)
  •   IHG (1)

El Hierro is one of the 59 constituencies (Spanish: circunscripciones) represented in the Senate of Spain, the upper chamber of the Spanish parliament, the Cortes Generales. The constituency elects one senator. Its boundaries correspond to those of the island of El Hierro. The electoral system employs open list partial block voting, allowing electors to vote for individual candidates rather than parties.

  1. ^ "Cifras oficiales de población resultantes de la revisión del Padrón municipal a 1 de enero. Población por islas y por sexo". ine.es (in Spanish). National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 10 August 2020.