A DYM barometer prepared for 20minutos found that 76% support an early general election on 29 November 2026, while 10.4% oppose it. The poll shows broad public backing for the vote, called after the Government lost the support needed to pass its housing decrees.
Support is also shifting toward PSOE on the left. Voters who previously backed Sumar and Podemos are moving to the governing party, while PP and VOX are holding their position as the dominant force on the right.
The two housing decrees were defeated by different margins: the first vote ended 172 to 178 and the second 166 to 184. The opposition parties voted against the Government's initiatives.
The figures are strongest among people who backed the opposition in the last general election. Some 86.3% of PP voters support bringing the vote forward, as do 81.9% of VOX voters. Among PSOE voters, support reaches 80.5%.
That cross-party backing followed an unusually damaging defeat. Congress rejected the Government's two housing decrees three days before the announcement, leaving Pedro Sánchez without the parliamentary support needed to proceed. He then called the election for 29 November.
The measures targeted the housing crisis through tenant protections. They also covered eviction-related safeguards and sought to curb market speculation. The defeat came after nationwide housing protests, which intensified following the forced eviction of an 87-year-old woman in Madrid.
Junts joined the opposition in rejecting the decrees despite negotiations with Sánchez's team over their contents. The vote exposed how little room the minority Government has with its parliamentary alliances.
The Spanish Government said Sánchez announced the dissolution after consulting the head of state and convening an extraordinary Council of Ministers. Spanish electoral rules require a vote 54 days after an early dissolution, setting the date for 29 November 2026.
The election comes more than six months before the vote originally expected in the summer of 2027. The ideological breakdown follows the party pattern, though the gap is narrower. Support reaches 80.6% among centre-right respondents and 80.5% among those identifying with the right. It stands at 78.1% in the centre. Among centre-left voters, support falls to 73.5%, and on the left it is 69.8%.
The 13.6% who did not know or declined to answer form the only sizeable group outside the clear majority. Supporters outnumber opponents by more than seven to one.
PP and VOX voters show the strongest appetite for an immediate contest. PSOE retains enough backing among its own electorate to defend the decision within the governing camp, while support on the left remains above two thirds.
The housing issue now carries the campaign's basic political weight. Sánchez is seeking to turn the failed decrees into an advantage for the Socialists, even as the parliamentary defeat highlights the fragility of his alliances.
The BBC reported that most published polls projected the conservative People's Party to win the largest number of seats. That gives PSOE a difficult starting position ahead of the 29 November vote.
