Basque parliamentary election, 1980

Basque parliamentary election, 1980
Basque Country (autonomous community)
9 March 1980

All 60 seats in the Basque Parliament
31 seats needed for a majority
Registered 1,554,527
Turnout 929,051 (59.8%)
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Carlos Garaikoetxea No candidate Txiki Benegas
Party EAJ-PNV HB PSE-PSOE
Leader since 1977 N/A 1977
Seats won 25 11 9
Popular vote 349,102 151,636 130,221
Percentage 38.0% 16.5% 14.2%

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Juan María Bandrés Jesús María Viana Florencio Aróstegui
Party EE UCD AP
Leader since 1979 1980 1980
Seats won 6 6 2
Popular vote 89,953 78,095 43,751
Percentage 9.8% 8.5% 4.8%

Lehendakari before election

Carlos Garaikoetxea
EAJ-PNV

Elected Lehendakari

Carlos Garaikoetxea
EAJ-PNV

The 1980 Basque parliamentary election was held on Sunday, 9 March 1980, to elect the 1st Basque Parliament, the regional legislature of the Spanish autonomous community of the Basque Country. At stake were all 60 seats in the Parliament, determining the Lehendakari (President of the Basque Country).

The Basque Nationalist Party (EAJ-PNV) won 25 seats, People's Unity (HB) came second with 11 seats, the Socialist Party of the Basque Country (PSE-PSOE) came third with 9 seats. The Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) and Nasque Country Left (EE) won 6 seats each.

Electoral system

The 60 members of the Basque Parliament were elected in 3 multi-member districts, corresponding to the Basque Country's three 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 regional Decree of 12 January 1980, which distributed the Parliament seats as follows: Alava (20), Biscay (20) and Gipuzkoa (20).

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 9 March 1980 Basque Parliament election results
Party Vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Won +/−
Basque Nationalist Party (EAJ-PNV) 349,102 37.95 25
People's Unity (HB) 151,636 16.48 11
Socialist Party of the Basque Country (PSE-PSOE) 130,221 14.16 9
Basque Country Left (EE) 89,953 9.78 6
Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) 78,095 8.49 6
People's Alliance (AP) 43,751 4.76 2
Communist Party of the Basque Country (PCE-EPK) 36,845 4.01 1
Communist Movement of the Basque Country (EMK-MCE) 10,959 1.19 0
Basque Socialists' Unity Force (ESEI) 6,280 0.68 0
Revolutionary Communist League (LKI-LCR) 5,182 0.56 0
Workers' Party of the Basque Country (ORT-PTE) 3,448 0.37 0
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (historical) (PSOE (h)) 2,760 0.30 0
Carlist Party (EKA-PC) 2,434 0.26 0
Workers' Socialist Party (PST) 2,099 0.23 0
Communist Unity (UC) 2,044 0.22 0
Blank ballots 3,570 0.39
Total 919,845 100.00 60
Valid votes 919,845 99.01
Invalid votes 9,206 0.99
Votes cast / turnout 929,051 59.76
Abstentions 625,476 40.24
Registered voters 1,554,527
Source: Argos Information Portal
Vote share
EAJ-PNV
 
37.95%
HB
 
16.48%
PSE-PSOE
 
14.16%
EE
 
9.78%
UCD
 
8.49%
AP
 
4.76%
PCE-EPK
 
4.01%
EMK-MCE
 
1.19%
Others
 
2.80%
Blank ballots
 
0.39%
Parliamentary seats
EAJ-PNV
 
41.67%
HB
 
18.33%
PSE-PSOE
 
15.00%
EE
 
10.00%
UCD
 
10.00%
AP
 
3.33%
PCE-EPK
 
1.67%

Results by province

References

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