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Teguise picks its 2027 Carnival theme with 412 votes
Teguise embedded a GloboPoll poll on its website to choose its 2027 Carnival theme. How it was set up, what happened and what we learned.
· Cibernatural · 2 min read
Every year, the Carnival of Teguise (Lanzarote, Canary Islands) is built around an allegory: the theme that the floats, costumes and posters of La Graciosa, Costa Teguise and La Villa all share. For 2027, the town council wanted residents to choose it, and they did it with a GloboPoll poll embedded on the council's own website.
The vote
- Question: "2027 Teguise Carnival allegory".
- Four proposals, each with its own image: Tropicalia, a taste of carnival; Heartbeats of Africa; Steampunk, the time factory; and A crazy carnival, Teguise in Wonderland.
- 21 September to 2 October 2026, twelve days.
- One vote per person, no sign-up: by connection and browser.
- Results visible while the vote was open.
Vote in the poll: «Alegoría del Carnaval 2027 de Teguise»
How it was set up
The council installed nothing. In the GloboPoll dashboard the site teguise.es was authorised and two lines of code were pasted into the voting page. The poll matches the site's look, people vote without leaving it, and the page adjusts to the widget's height on its own, on mobile too.
Before going live, the poll went through the review every poll gets: checking that the text and images are correct and that the question doesn't lead the answer.
What happened
- 412 votes in twelve days.
- 177 in the first three and a half hours on opening day: most participation arrives as soon as the vote is announced.
- 72 clicks from the widget to GloboPoll, almost all from
teguise.es: 31 to see the full poll and 41 to the detailed results. Roughly one for every six votes. - Close until the end: Tropicalia, a taste of carnival won with 125 votes (30.3%), three more than A crazy carnival, Teguise in Wonderland (122). Behind them, Heartbeats of Africa (102) and Steampunk, the time factory (63).
What we learned
- One vote per person without sign-up means knowing where each vote really comes from. Before opening, we fixed how we read the voter's address behind Cloudflare; without that, "one vote per connection" wouldn't have limited anything.
- On an island, many neighbours share a connection. Mobile carriers put thousands of people behind a few addresses, so the per-connection limit is combined with the browser so nobody voting in good faith is left out.
- The vote lives on the council's website, where residents already go. GloboPoll provides the count, the review and the duplicate-vote control; the council keeps its page, its messaging and the announcement of the result.
For other councils
The widget is free, with no vote limit and up to three active polls at a time. For consultations that shouldn't appear in the public catalogue, the Pro plan lets a poll be shown only inside the council's website, and invitation voting gives each person on the register a single-use code.
Want to do something similar in your town? Get in touch or try creating a poll without an account.