Aragonese parliamentary election, 1983

Aragonese parliamentary election, 1983

8 May 1983

All 66 seats in the Courts of Aragon 34 seats needed for a majority Registered 919,295 Turnout 613,304 (66.7%)   First party Second party Third party   Leader Santiago Marraco Rafael Zapatero Hipólito Gómez de las Roces Party PSOE AP–PDP–PL PAR Leader since November 1979 1983 December 1977 Seats won 33 18 13 Popular vote 283,226 136,853 124,018 Percentage 46.8% 22.6% 20.5%   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader Miguel Galindo José Luis Merino Party PCE CDS Leader since 1980 1983 Seats won 1 1 Popular vote 23,960 19,902 Percentage 4.0% 3.3%

President before election Juan Antonio de Andrés UCD Elected President Santiago Marraco PSOE

The 1983 Aragonese parliamentary election was held on Sunday, 8 May 1983, to elect the 1st democratically-elected Courts of Aragon, the regional legislature of the Spanish autonomous community of Aragon. At stake were all 66 seats in the Courts, determining the President of the Government of Aragon.

The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) came first in the election by winning exactly half the seats (33 out of 66), 1 short of an absolute majority, with 46.8% of the vote. The People's Coalition, a coalition of centre-right parties including the People's Alliance (AP), the People's Democratic Party (PDP) and the Liberal Union (UL) came second with 18 seats and 22.6%, while the Regionalist Aragonese Party (PAR) finished third with 20.5% and 13 seats. The Communist Party of Spain (PCE) and the Democratic and Social Centre (CDS) both obtained 1 seat each with between 3-4% of the vote.

As a result of the election, Socialist Santiago Marraco was elected by the Courts as the first democratically-elected President of Aragon.

Electoral system

The number of seats in the Aragonese Courts was set to 66 for the 1983-1987 period. All Courts members were elected in 3 multi-member districts, corresponding to Aragon'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 Decree 24/1983, which distributed the Courts seats as follows: Huesca (18), Teruel (16) and Zaragoza (32).

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 Aragonese Courts election results →

Party		Vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Won	+/−
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	283,226	46.84	−	33	−
	People's Coalition (AP-PDP-UL)	136,853	22.63	−	18	−
	Regionalist Aragonese Party (PAR)	124,018	20.51	−	13	−
	Communist Party of Spain (PCE)	23,960	3.96	−	1	−
	Democratic and Social Centre (CDS)	19,902	3.29	−	1	−
	Workers' Socialist Party (PST)	4,747	0.78	−	0	−
	United Left of Aragon (IUA)	4,645	0.77	−	0	−
	Communist Party of Aragon (PCA)	1,381	0.23	−	0	−
	Social Aragonese Movement (MAS)	1,285	0.21	−	0	−
	Liberal Democratic Party (PDL)	883	0.15	−	0	−
	Blank ballots	3,830	0.63	−
Total		604,730	100.00		66	−
Valid votes		604,730	98.60	−
Invalid votes		8,574	1.40	−
Votes cast / turnout		613,304	66.71	−
Abstentions		305,991	33.29	−
Registered voters		919,295
Source: Argos Information Portal

Results by province

References

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