Madrilenian regional election, 1983

Madrilenian regional election, 1983
Community of Madrid
8 May 1983
All 94 seats in the Assembly of Madrid
48 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered 3,381,610
Turnout 2,357,425 (69.7%)

  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Joaquín Leguina Luis Guillermo Perinat Lorenzo Hernández
Party PSOE AP–PDP–UL PCE
Leader since 14 December 1979 25 January 1983 1983
Leader's seat Madrid Madrid Madrid
Seats won 51 34 9
Popular vote 1,181,277 798,853 207,058
Percentage 50.5% 34.1% 8.8%
Elected President

Joaquín Leguina
PSOE

The 1983 Madrilenian regional election was held on Sunday, 8 May 1983, to elect the 1st Assembly of the Autonomous Community of Madrid. All 94 seats in the Assembly were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in 12 other autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain.

The election was won by the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), who won an absolute majority of seats and votes, the only occasion on which the party has achieved this in a Madrid Assembly election.[1] In total the PSOE won 51 seats.

The People's Coalition, an electoral alliance led by the People's Alliance (AP), which also included the People's Democratic Party (PDP) and the Liberal Union (UL), emerged as the second largest grouping in the Assembly.

The Communist Party of Spain was the only other party to win seats in the Assembly. In 1986, the party joined with other left-wing movements to form the current United Left.

Electoral system

The 94 members of the Assembly of Madrid were elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with a threshold of 5 per 100 of valid votes—which included blank ballots—being applied regionally. Parties not reaching the threshold were not taken into consideration for seat distribution. The Assembly was entitled to one member per each 50,000 inhabitants or fraction greater than 25,000, according to the updated data of the population census.[n 1][2] Voting was on the basis of universal suffrage, with all nationals over eighteen, registered in the Community of Madrid and in full enjoyment of all political rights entitled to vote.

The electoral law provided that parties, federations, coalitions and groupings of electors were allowed to present lists of candidates. However, groupings of electors were required to secure at least the signature of 0.1 per 100 of the electors entered in electoral register of the constituency for which they were seeking election—needing to secure, in any case, the signature of 500 electors—. Electors were barred from signing for more than one list of candidates. Concurrently, parties and federations intending to enter in coalition to take part jointly at an election were required to inform the relevant Electoral Commission within fifteen days from the election call.[3]

The regional Statute required for the first regional election to be held before 31 May 1983. Additionally, the chamber was to be automatically dissolved and a snap election called if an investiture process failed to elect a regional President within a two-month period from the first ballot, with elected deputies merely serving out what remained of their four-year terms.[2][3]

Opinion polls

Individual poll results are listed in the table below in reverse chronological order, showing the most recent first, and using the date the survey's fieldwork was done, as opposed to the date of publication. If that date is unknown, the date of publication is given instead. The highest percentage figure in each polling survey is displayed with its background shaded in the leading party's colour. In the instance of a tie, the figures with the highest percentages are shaded. in the case of seat projections, they are displayed in bold and in a different font. The lead column on the right shows the percentage-point difference between the two parties with the highest figures. 48 seats were required for an absolute majority in the Assembly of Madrid.

Results

Summary of the 8 May 1983 Assembly of Madrid election results →
Parties and coalitions Popular vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Won +/−
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) 1,181,277 50.47 — 51 —
People's Coalition (AP–PDP–UL) 798,853 34.13 — 34 —
Communist Party of Spain (PCE) 207,058 8.85 — 9 —
Democratic and Social Centre (CDS) 73,124 3.12 — 0 —
Liberal Democratic Party (PDL) 43,309 1.85 — 0 —
Blank ballots 13,735 0.59 —
Total 2,340,625 100.00 94 —
Valid votes 2,340,625 99.29 —
Invalid votes 16,800 0.71 —
Votes cast / turnout 2,357,425 69.71 —
Abstentions 1,024,185 30.29 —
Registered voters 3,381,610
Source(s): Assembly of Madrid, historiaelectoral.com
Popular vote
PSOE
  
 50.47%
AP–PDP–UL
  
 34.13%
PCE
  
 8.85%
CDS
  
 3.12%
PDL
  
 1.85%
Others
  
 0.99%
Blank ballots
  
 0.59%
Seats
PSOE
  
 54.26%
AP–PDP–UL
  
 36.17%
PCE
  
 9.57%

Aftermath

Investiture

Investiture processes to elect the President of the Community of Madrid required for an absolute majority—more than half the votes cast—to be obtained in the first ballot. If unsuccessful, a new ballot would be held 48 hours later requiring only of a simple majority—more affirmative than negative votes—to succeed. If such majorities were not achieved, successive candidate proposals would be processed under the same procedure. In the event of the investiture process failing to elect a regional President within a two-month period from the first ballot, the Assembly would be automatically dissolved and a snap election called.[2]

Investiture of
Joaquín Leguina (PSOE)		 Yes No Abstentions
14 June 1983 (1st ballot)
(48/94 required)		 51 • PSOE (51) 33 • AP–PDP–UL (33) 8 • PCE (8)
Source: historiaelectoral.com

Notes

  1. ↑ As no specific electoral law was in force at the time, the electoral system was regulated under the general rules of the Electoral Rules Decree of 1977 and Additional Provision Two of the regional Statute of Autonomy.

Opinion poll sources

  1. ↑ "El PSOE repite y AP rompe el techo alcanzado en las elecciones del 28-O". ABC (in Spanish). 2 May 1983.
  2. ↑ "El PSOE tendrá tres veces más votos que AP en las dos elecciones". El País (in Spanish). 1 May 1983.
  3. ↑ "Ficha técnica de los sondeos". El País (in Spanish). 1 May 1983.

References

  1. ↑ Madrid election results Historiaelectoral.com. Retrieved 23 July 2011
  2. 1 2 3 Statute of Autonomy of the Community of Madrid of 1983, Organic Law No. 3 of February 25, 1983 Official State Gazette (in Spanish). Retrieved on 22 February 2017.
  3. 1 2 Electoral Rules Decree of 1977, Royal Decree-Law No. 20 of March 18, 1977 Official State Gazette (in Spanish). Retrieved on 27 December 2016.
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