Castile-La Mancha parliamentary election, 1983

Castile-La Mancha parliamentary
election, 1983
Castilla-La Mancha
8 May 1983
All 44 seats in the Courts of Castile-La Mancha
23 seats needed for a majority
Registered 1,230,011
Turnout 901,872 (73.3%)
  First party Second party
 
Leader José Bono José Lara
Party PSOE AP–PDP–PL
Leader since 25 March 1983 1983
Seats won 23 21
Popular vote 416,177 364,676
Percentage 46.7% 40.9%
President before election

Jesús Fuentes Lázaro
PSOE

 Elected President

José Bono
PSOE

The 1983 Castile-La Mancha parliamentary election was held on Sunday, 8 May 1983, to elect the 1st Courts of Castile-La Mancha, the regional legislature of the Spanish autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha. At stake were all 44 seats in the Courts, determining the President of the Junta of Communities of Castile-La Mancha.

Only two political parties were able to enter the Courts: the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) under MP José Bono, which won an absolute majority of seats (23 out of 44 seats), and the People's Coalition, an electoral alliance led by the right-wing People's Alliance (AP), which included the People's Democratic Party (PDP) and the Liberal Union (UL).

As a result of the election, José Bono became the first democratically-elected President of Castile-La Mancha.

Electoral system

The number of seats in the Castile-La Mancha Courts was set to a fixed-number of 44. All Courts members were elected in 5 multi-member districts, corresponding to Castile-La Mancha's five 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 55/1983, which distributed the Courts seats as follows: Albacete (9), Ciudad Real (10), Cuenca (8), Guadalajara (7) and Toledo (10).

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 Castile-La Mancha Courts election results →
Party Vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Won +/−
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) 416,177 46.70 − 23 −
People's Coalition (AP-PDP-UL) 364,676 40.92 − 21 −
Communist Party of Spain (PCE) 61,132 6.86 − 0 −
Democratic and Social Centre (CDS) 26,911 3.02 − 0 −
Liberal Democratic Party (PDL) 15,890 1.78 − 0 −
Spanish Communist Workers' Party-Unified Communist Party (PCOE-PCEU) 579 0.06 − 0 −
Blank ballots 5,823 0.65 −
Total 891,188 100.00 44 −
Valid votes 891,188 98.82 −
Invalid votes 10,684 1.18 −
Votes cast / turnout 901,872 73.32 −
Abstentions 328,139 26.68 −
Registered voters 1,230,011
Source(s):
Vote share
PSOE
  
 46.70%
AP-PDP-UL
  
 40.92%
PCE
  
 6.86%
CDS
  
 3.02%
PDL
  
 1.78%
PCOE-PCEU
  
 0.06%
Blank ballots
  
 0.65%
Parliamentary seats
PSOE
  
 52.27%
AP-PDP-UL
  
 47.73%

Results by province

References

  1. ↑ "Decree 55/1983, of 9 March, of the Presidency of the Junta of Communities of Castile-La Mancha, by which Elections to the Courts of Castile-La Mancha are called." (PDF).
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