Number 43

In El Gordo de la Primitiva under the 5/54 + 1/9 · since Jan 2010 rules — 868 draws, 5 from 1–54.

68times drawn · chance expected 80 −1.45σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

12.8average wait between appearances · chance says 10.8

89longest completed wait · 1% chance of one at least that long

43 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 68 times in 868 draws against 80.4 expected, −1.45σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 43, draw by draw

Drawn 68 times in 868 draws · average wait 12.8 draws · longest completed wait 89 · drawn in the most recent draw

a completed wait — darker is longer the wait still running — a lower bound, not a finished gap

Where it lands in a sorted draw

Sort a draw and 43 has a favourite seat — chance gives a large number the high positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

1st smallest0 · chance 0.1
2nd smallest1 · chance 1.6
3rd smallest15 · chance 11.0
4th smallest31 · chance 29.3
5th smallest21 · chance 26.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 5.1 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

34 9 2 24 27 37

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 53 numbers; chance expected about 0.3 still unmet by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 43 is picked about 0.86× as often as an indifferent choice — 34th most popular of 54. That changes nothing about whether it comes up, and everything about how many ways a jackpot on it would be shared.

Numbers above 31 ×0.86

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 43 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-25	2	4th	9 26 41 43 46
2026-10-11	22	3rd	5 27 43 49 52
2026-05-10	17	4th	17 34 42 43 53
2026-01-11	12	4th	7 12

What this cannot tell you

Nothing here predicts the next draw. A number’s history is a record of a fair machine’s past, and the machine keeps none of it: 43 is drawn with probability 5/54 tonight whatever it did last week.

2020-09-06	7	5th	8 10 26 40 43
2020-07-19	16	3rd	24 30 43 49 50
2020-01-19	9	4th	15 18 39 43 54
2019-11-17	15	4th	1 12 24 43 47
2019-08-04	2	3rd	37 39 43 48 49
2019-07-21	3	5th	3 17 21 37 43
2019-06-30	2	5th	11 13 26 28 43
2019-06-16	2	4th	9 24 27 43 45
2019-06-02	5	5th	10 14 31 42 43
2019-04-28	37	5th	2 4 5 24 43
2018-08-12	2	3rd	19 34 43 44 53
2018-07-29	12	4th	22 25 34 43 48
2018-05-06	9	4th	21 33 39 43 50
2018-03-04	19	4th	1 23 41 43 50
2017-10-22	3	5th	6 9 20 27 43
2017-10-01	16	3rd	19 34 43 48 53
2017-06-11	22	5th	2 3 13 29 43
2017-01-08	5	4th	12 38 41 43 53
2016-12-04	44	4th	5 10 27 43 52
2016-01-31	3	5th	6 16 33 42 43
2016-01-10	9	4th	13 21 28 43 51
2015-11-08	18	3rd	6 9 43 47 51
2015-07-05	39	5th	2 13 15 17 43
2014-10-05	7	3rd	7 24 43 44 50
2014-08-17	19	4th	2 19 32 43 49
2014-04-06	10	4th	11 30 37 43 46
2014-01-26	5	4th	34 39 41 43 54
2013-12-22	15	4th	11 24 36 43 47
2013-09-08	13	4th	34 39 40 43 44
2013-06-09	19	5th	16 25 37 38 43
2013-01-27	13	4th	9 27 30 43 46
2012-10-28	1	4th	23 34 42 43 45
2012-10-21	12	3rd	21 34 43 53 54
2012-07-29	22	4th	9 11 39 43 45
2012-02-26	7	4th	18 23 37 43 49
2012-01-08	9	5th	2 18 19 24 43
2011-11-06	17	4th	15 22 42 43 47
2011-07-10	9	5th	9 16 29 33 43
2011-05-08	1	3rd	18 21 43 48 50
2011-05-01	1	4th	5 29 35 43 47
2011-04-24	18	3rd	14 27 43 45 54
2010-12-19	20	5th	9 10 12 14 43
2010-08-01	20	5th	7 21 35 37 43
2010-03-14	—	5th	15 30 36 40 43