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The influence of the media in electoral processes and decisions of citizens has motivated numerous studies since the mid-twentieth century. However, there are specific stereotypes such as the direct correlation between consumption of newspapers and electoral participation. This article shows through autonomous communities that in Spain there is not a direct subordination and very different situations are given. It highlights that Castilla-La Mancha is the region with a higher overall rate of participation, and yet with the lowest percentage of voters who buy a newspaper. The study underlines as well other issues, such as the weight of ideological factors when voting. In any case, there is increasingly difficulties to establish a relationship of influence of the media in the decision of the voters, because of the general increase in information sources.