La mesa electoral llevó la urna al local electoral.

Yes — mesa normally means table. But in election language in Spain, mesa electoral is a fixed expression.

It can refer to:

• the polling board / election board (the people in charge at a polling station), and sometimes by extension
• the polling table/station itself

So in this sentence, La mesa electoral is best understood as a single official body or board, which is why the verb is singular: llevó.

Because la mesa electoral is grammatically singular. Spanish often treats this kind of collective or institutional noun as one unit.

So:

• La mesa electoral llevó... = singular verb
• not llevaron, unless you were talking about the individual people directly

This is similar to how English might say The committee decided... rather than The committee decideds....

Llevó is the preterite (simple past), third person singular, from llevar.

• yo llevé
• tú llevaste
• él/ella/usted llevó

The accent mark is important because it distinguishes:

• llevó = he/she/it carried / took
• llevo = I carry / I am carrying

So the accent changes both the pronunciation and the meaning.

Because al is the contraction of a + el.

Here:

• a = to
• el local electoral = the polling place / electoral premises

So:

• a el local electoral → al local electoral

This contraction is mandatory in standard Spanish whenever a is followed by el (except when El is part of a proper name).

In Spain, local electoral refers to the place/building/room used for voting. Depending on context, English might translate it as:

• polling place
• polling station
• voting premises

A useful distinction is:

• mesa electoral = the board/table responsible for voting procedures
• local electoral = the physical place where voting happens

So they are related, but not the same thing.

No — urna is a regular feminine noun:

• la urna
• una urna

In election contexts, urna means ballot box. In other contexts, it can also mean urn.

There’s nothing especially irregular here; it simply takes feminine articles and adjectives.

Spanish often uses definite articles more freely than English, especially when referring to specific, known things in a particular situation.

Here the sentence refers to specific entities:

• La mesa electoral = the particular election board
• la urna = the ballot box involved
• al local electoral = to the specific polling place

Even if English might sometimes drop an article or phrase things differently, Spanish normally keeps them here.

Yes, grammatically you could, but llevó is much more natural and everyday.

• llevó = took / carried
• transportó = transported

Transportó sounds more formal, technical, or logistical. In an ordinary sentence like this, llevó is the usual choice.

Because with verbs like llevar, Spanish uses a to mark the destination: take/carry something to somewhere.

Pattern:

• llevar algo a algún sitio

So:

• llevó la urna al local electoral

This is very common:

• Llevó los libros a casa.
• Llevaron al niño al médico.

This is the most neutral word order in Spanish:

• Subject: La mesa electoral
• Verb: llevó
• Direct object: la urna
• Destination/complement: al local electoral

Spanish is more flexible than English, so other orders are possible for emphasis, for example:

• La urna la llevó la mesa electoral al local electoral.
• Al local electoral llevó la urna la mesa electoral.

But the original sentence is the most straightforward and natural for a learner.

Because each noun needs to be specified separately.

• mesa electoral = the election board / polling table
• local electoral = the polling place / voting premises

Without electoral, the meanings would be much less clear:

• mesa = table
• local = premises / venue / local shop/business, depending on context

So the repetition may sound bureaucratic, but it is perfectly normal in official or administrative Spanish.

No. In this sentence, local is a noun, not the adjective local meaning nearby.

Here el local means:

• premises
• venue
• room/building used for something

So el local electoral is not the local electoral... in the English sense. It means the electoral premises / polling place.

Yes, it sounds very compatible with election-related Spanish in Spain.

In Spain, terms like these are very common:

• mesa electoral
• urna
• local electoral
• colegio electoral

The exact English translation may vary depending on context, but the Spanish wording feels normal and recognisable in a Spain election context.