Extremaduran parliamentary election, 1983

Extremaduran parliamentary election, 1983
Extremadura
8 May 1983

All 65 seats in the Assembly of Extremadura
33 seats needed for a majority
Registered 786,200
Turnout 565,244 (71.9%)
  First party Second party
 
Leader Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra Adolfo Díaz-Ambrona
Party PSOE CP
Leader since 20 December 1982 1976
Seats won 35 20
Popular vote 296,939 168,606
Percentage 53.0% 30.1%

  Third party Fourth party
 
Leader Pedro Cañada Manuel Pareja
Party EU PCE
Leader since 10 December 1980 1983
Seats won 6 4
Popular vote 47,504 36,294
Percentage 8.5% 6.5%

President before election

Juan Carlos
Rodríguez Ibarra

PSOE

Elected President

Juan Carlos
Rodríguez Ibarra

PSOE

The 1983 Extremaduran parliamentary election was held on Sunday, 8 May 1983, to elect the 1st Assembly of Extremadura, the unicameral regional legislature of the Spanish autonomous community of Extremadura. At stake were all 65 seats in the Assembly, determining the President of Extremadura.

The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) under pre-autonomic President Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra won the election with an absolute majority of seats. The People's Coalition, an electoral alliance led by the People's Alliance (AP) and including the People's Democratic Party (PDP) and the Liberal Union (UL), emerged as the second largest force obtaining 20 seats, with United Extremadura (EU) and the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) also entering the Assembly, winning 6 and 4 seats respectively.

Electoral system

The number of seats in the Extremaduran Assembly was set to a fixed-number of 65. All Assembly members were elected in 2 multi-member districts, corresponding to Extremadura's two provinces, using the D'Hondt method and a closed-list proportional representation system. As the community had not passed an electoral law of its own at the time, the electoral system came regulated under the community's Statute of Autonomy, which distributed the Assembly seats as follows: Badajoz (35) and Cáceres (30).

Voting was on the basis of universal suffrage in a secret ballot. Only lists polling above 3% of valid votes in each district (which include blank ballotsfor none of the above) were entitled to enter the seat distribution.[1]

Results

Overall

Summary of the 8 May 1983 Extremaduran Assembly election results
Party Vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Won +/−
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) 296,939 53.02 35
People's Coalition (AP-PDP-UL) 168,606 30.10 20
United Extremadura (EU) 47,504 8.48 6
Communist Party of Spain (PCE) 36,294 6.48 4
Democratic and Social Centre (CDS) 4,414 0.79 0
People's Bloc of Extremadura (BPEx) 2,249 0.40 0
Spanish Communist Workers' Party-PCEU (PCOE-PCEU) 1,463 0.26 0
Blank ballots 2,622 0.47
Total 560,091 100.00 65
Valid votes 560,091 99.09
Invalid votes 5,153 0.91
Votes cast / turnout 565,244 71.90
Abstentions 220,956 28.10
Registered voters 786,200
Source: Argos Information Portal
Vote share
PSOE
 
53.02%
AP-PDP-UL
 
30.10%
EU
 
8.48%
PCE
 
6.48%
Others
 
1.45%
Blank ballots
 
0.47%
Parliamentary seats
PSOE
 
53.85%
AP-PDP-UL
 
30.77%
EU
 
9.23%
PCE
 
6.15%

Results by province

Election results by province.

References