This year, each Navarrese will spend on average 58.38 euros to buy tenths for the Extraordinary draw for the Christmas lottery which will be held on December 22, below the national average of 73.84 euros, according to the amount allocated per inhabitant of the National Lottery and Betting Company (SELAE).
This amount is an estimate since the data will be final once the returns of unsold tickets have been received during the campaign for this traditional raffle. whose advertising campaign was presented this Thursday November 14 during a press conference at the Royal Mint in Madrid.
In this way, the approximately 74 euros of expenses per person correspond to the sales estimates that SELAE makes when sending the tickets to the lottery administrations, even if subsequently there always remains a proportion of tenths which remain unsold.
By region, the autonomous community which predictably Castile and León will spend the most per capita this year, with an average of 117.76 euros, followed by Asturias (115.43 euros), La Rioja (112.84 euros), Aragon (100.28 euros ), Cantabria (99.4 euros), Basque Country (84.33 euros), Community of Madrid (83.83 euros), Castile-La Mancha (82.78 euros), the Valencian Community (81.82 euros) and Galicia (79.79 euros).
Meanwhile, according to the data collected According to Europa Press, those who will spend the least this year are still the inhabitants of the autonomous cities of Melilla (16.75 euros) and Ceuta (18.55 euros), followed by those of the Balearic Islands (42.62 euros), the islands Canaries. Islands (46.19 euros), Catalonia (56.41 euros), Navarre (58.38 euros), Andalusia (61.01 euros), Extremadura (66.76 euros) and Murcia (71.41 euros).
Concerning the different autonomous communitieswhere the largest number of Christmas lotteries expected to be sold is in Madrid (575.08 million euros recorded), followed by Andalusia (522.7 million euros), Catalonia (446.1 million euros ‘euros), the Valencian Community (426.3 million euros), Castile and León. (280.2 million euros), Galicia (215.1 million euros), the Basque Country (187.1 million euros), Castile-La Mancha (172 million euros) and Aragon (134 .3 million euros).
On the contrary, those who least Christmas lottery were allocated are Melilla with 1.4 million euros and Ceuta with 1.5 million euros, respectively, La Rioja (36.39 million euros), Navarre (39.2 million euros), the Balearic Islands (51 million euros), Cantabria (58.4 million euros), Extremadura. (70.2 million euros), the Canary Islands (101.7 million euros), Murcia (110.8 million euros) and Asturias (116 million euros).
The president of State lotteries and betting (LAE)Jesús Huerta, indicated that the sales rate is “very similar to last year, perhaps slightly higher”, with 15% of sales. This was stated during the press conference presenting the traditional advertising campaign for the extraordinary Christmas draw, organized at the Royal Mint of Madrid.
He Extraordinary draw for the Christmas lottery In 2024, it will distribute a total of 2.702 million euros in prizes, or 112 million more than last year. In the raffle prize program, the Christmas “Gordo” or first prize stands out, of 4,000,000 euros for the series; second prize, 1,250,000 euros for the series; or the third, 500,000 euros for the series.
