Catalan parliamentary election, 1984

Catalan parliamentary election, 1984
Catalonia
29 April 1984

All 135 seats in the Parliament of Catalonia
68 seats needed for a majority
Turnout 2,892,486 (64.4%)
Increase3.0 pp
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Jordi Pujol Raimon Obiols Eduard Bueno
Party CiU PSC AP
Leader since 19 September 1978 12 July 1983 1983
Last election 43 seats, 27.8% 33 seats, 22.4% Did not contest
Seats won 72 41 11
Seat change Increase29 Increase8 Increase11
Popular vote 1,346,729 866,281 221,601
Percentage 46.8% 30.1% 7.7%
Swing Increase19.0 pp Increase7.7 pp New party

  Fourth party Fifth party
 
Leader Antoni Gutiérrez Heribert Barrera
Party PSUC ERC
Leader since 1982 1980
Last election 25 seats, 18.8% 14 seats, 8.9%
Seats won 6 5
Seat change Decrease19 Decrease9
Popular vote 160,581 126,943
Percentage 5.6% 4.4%
Swing Decrease13.2 pp Decrease4.5 pp

Graphic of the results in the Catalan Parliament election, 1984, based in seats and constituencies.

President before election

Jordi Pujol
CiU

Elected President

Jordi Pujol
CiU

The 1984 Catalan parliamentary election was held on Sunday, 29 April 1984, to elect the 2nd Parliament of Catalonia, the regional legislature of the Spanish autonomous community of Catalonia. At stake were all 135 seats in the Parliament, determining the President of Catalonia.

Electoral system

The 135 members of the Parliament of Catalonia were elected in 4 multi-member districts, corresponding to Catalonia's four provinces, using the D'Hondt method and a closed-list proportional representation. As the community did not have an electoral law of its own passed into law at the time of the 1984 election, the electoral system came regulated under the community's Statute of Autonomy rules, and subsidiarily, under the Spanish general electoral law (Organic Law 5/1985, of the General Electoral Regime). As a result of the lack of an autonomous electoral law, seats were allocated to districts through specific Laws or Decrees for each election. For the 1984 election, seats were distributed as follows: Barcelona (85), Girona (17), Lleida (15) and Tarragona (18).

Voting was on the basis of universal suffrage in a secret ballot. Only lists polling above 3% of valid votes in each district (which includes blank ballots—for none of the above) were entitled to enter the seat distribution.

Background

After of 4 years of a Convergence and Union government, these elections consolidated the nationalist party, which remained in power until 2003.

In the past 1980 elections, Convergence and Union's leader, Jordi Pujol, governed in minority after an agreement with Union of the Democratic Centre.

Parties

Results

← Summary of the 29 May 1984 Catalan Parliament election results
Party Vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Won +/−
Convergence and Union (CiU) 1,346,729 46.80 Increase18.97 72 Increase29
Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC-PSOE) 866,281 30.11 Increase7.68 41 Increase8
People's Alliance-People's Democratic Party-Liberal Union (AP) 221,601 7.70 New 11 Increase11
Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSUC) 160,581 5.58 Decrease13.19 6 Decrease19
Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) 126,943 4.41 Decrease4.49 5 Decrease9
Party of the Communists of Catalonia (PCC) 68,836 2.39 New 0 ±0
The Entesa of the Left Nationalists (CEEEC) 35,937 1.25 New 0 ±0
Spanish Vertex Ecological Development Revindication (VERDE) 8,714 0.30 New 0 ±0
Social Democratic Party of Catalonia (PSDC) 6,768 0.24 New 0 ±0
Workers' Socialist Party (PST) 5,381 0.19 New 0 ±0
Internationalist Socialist Workers' Party (POSI) 3,533 0.12 New 0 ±0
Revolutionary Workers' Party (POR) 2,694 0.09 New 0 ±0
Communist Workers Party of Catalonia (PCOC) 2,593 0.09 Decrease0.39 0 ±0
Revolutionary Communist League (LCR) 1,861 0.06 New 0 ±0
Communist Party of Spain (Marxist-Leninist) (PCE (m-l)) 1,834 0.06 New 0 ±0
Spanish Democratic Party (PDE) 1,110 0.04 New 0 ±0
Partit Lleidatà (PLL) 856 0.03 New 0 ±0
Unity of Aran (UA) 787 0.03 New 0 ±0
Communist Movement of Catalonia (MCC) 164 0.01 New 0 ±0
Blank ballots 14,313 0.49 Decrease0.17
Total 2,877,516 100.00 135 ±0
Valid votes 2,877,516 99.48 Decrease0.02
Invalid votes 14,970 0.52 Increase0.02
Votes cast / turnout 2,892,486 64.36 Increase3.02
Abstentions 1,601,854 35.64 Decrease3.02
Registered voters 4.494.340
Source(s):
Vote share
CiU
 
46.80%
PSC-PSOE
 
30.11%
AP
 
7.70%
PSUC
 
5.58%
ERC
 
4.41%
Others
 
4.91%
Blank ballots
 
0.49%
Parliamentary seats
CiU
 
53.33%
PSC-PSOE
 
30.37%
AP
 
8.15%
PSUC
 
4.45%
ERC
 
3.70%

Results by district

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