Extremaduran parliamentary election, 1983

Extremaduran parliamentary election, 1983

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 ballots—for 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-Unified Communist Party (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

1. "Organic Law 1/1983, of 25 February, of the Statute of Autonomy of Extremadura.".