The data from the Canary Islands Sociobarometer, prepared by the National University of Distance Education (UNED) between June 7 and July 7, reveal that Lanzarote residents do not have a great interest in politics in general.
The majority of the 400 people surveyed in the framework of this study on the island of Lanzarote say that they are "little or not at all" interested in politics in general. In total, 66.8% of the residents of Lanzarote surveyed indicate that they are not interested in politics, compared to 62.3% in the rest of the Archipelago.
Likewise, 15.7% of the population interviewed stated that they have a "regular" interest in political life and only 12% add "a lot or quite a bit." This attitude is also reflected in abstaining from voting. Lanzarote was the Canary Island where more people decided not to go to the polls in the municipal and island elections on May 28. The Canary Islands Sociobarometer reflects among 3,195 respondents throughout the Archipelago that abstention rates are more frequent between the ages of 18 and 29, and as age increases, voters remain above 50%.
In addition, the majority of those interviewed in Lanzarote (65%) were little or not at all interested in the electoral campaign, the highest rate in the Archipelago. In this sense, 24.9% do not remember what was the most mentioned topic by the parties; 22.5% said it was unemployment; 24.3% the economy; 14.5% healthcare; and 11.7% housing.
In this sense, among the population that decided not to go to the polls in Lanzarote and was surveyed, 31.6% never vote; 28.9% decided before the campaign, 13.2% at the beginning of the campaign, and 26.3% in the last week of the campaign.
Likewise, of those surveyed, the majority of the population considers themselves to have a center ideology and places Vox towards the extreme right (seven out of ten), the Popular Party to the right (six out of ten), the Canary Coalition to the center (five out of ten), and PSOE to the left (four out of ten).