Catalan parliamentary election, 1980

Catalan regional election, 1980

20 March 1980 1984 →
All 135 seats in the Parliament of Catalonia 68 seats needed for a majority
Registered	4,432,776
Turnout	2,718,888 (61.3%)
First party Second party Third party   Leader Jordi Pujol Joan Reventós Josep Benet Party CiU PSC–PSOE PSUC Leader since 17 November 1974 16 July 1978 1980 Leader's seat Barcelona Barcelona Barcelona Seats won 43 33 25 Popular vote 752,943 606,717 507,753 Percentage 27.8% 22.4% 18.8%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Anton Cañellas Heribert Barrera Francisco Hidalgo Party CC–UCD ERC PSA–PA Leader since 1980 1976 1980 Leader's seat Barcelona Barcelona Barcelona Seats won 18 14 2 Popular vote 286,922 240,871 71,841 Percentage 10.6% 8.9% 2.7%
Constituency results map for the Parliament of Catalonia
President before election Josep Tarradellas ERC Elected President Jordi Pujol CiU

Josep Tarradellas
ERC

Jordi Pujol
CiU

The 1980 Catalan regional election was held on Thursday, 9 March 1980, to elect the 1st Parliament of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia. All 135 seats in the Parliament were up for election.

No electoral law was in force at the time, with election rules for the Parliament regulated under the electoral system for the Congress of Deputies and special provisions within the regional Statute of Autonomy. The Parliament of Catalonia was elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation. Under the Statute, the Parliament size was provisionally set to 135. All seats were allocated to four multi-member districts—each corresponding to a province, with allocation awarding 85 seats to Barcelona, 17 to Girona, 15 to Lleida and 18 to Tarragona—. A threshold of 3% of valid votes—which included blank ballots—was applied in each constituency, with parties not reaching the threshold not taken into consideration for seat distribution.

Voting was on the basis of universal suffrage, with all residents over eighteen and in the full enjoyment of all political rights entitled to vote. Concurrently, residents meeting the previous criteria and not involved in any cause of ineligibility were eligible for the Parliament. Groups of electors were required to obtain the signatures of at least 1/1000 of registered electors—provided that this amount did exceed of 500—in a particular district in order to be able to field candidates.