Extremaduran regional election, 1983

8 May 1983

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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	Third party

Leader	Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra	Adolfo Díaz-Ambrona	Pedro Cañada
Party	PSOE	AP–PDP–UL	EU
Leader since	20 December 1982	1976	10 December 1980
Leader's seat	Badajoz	Badajoz	Cáceres
Seats won	35	20	6
Popular vote	296,939	168,606	47,504
Percentage	53.0%	30.1%	8.5%

	Fourth party

Leader	Manuel Pareja
Party	PCE
Leader since	1983
Leader's seat	Badajoz
Seats won	4
Popular vote	36,294
Percentage	6.5%

Constituency results map for the Assembly of Extremadura

President before election

Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra
PSOE

Elected President

Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra
PSOE

The 1983 Extremaduran regional election was held on Sunday, 8 May 1983, to elect the 1st Assembly of the Autonomous Community of Extremadura. All 65 seats in the Assembly were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in twelve other autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain.

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.

The Assembly of Extremadura was the devolved, unicameral legislature of the autonomous community of Extremadura, having legislative power in regional matters as defined by the Spanish Constitution and the Extremaduran Statute of Autonomy, as well as the ability to grant or revoke confidence from a President of the Junta. Voting for the Assembly was on the basis of universal suffrage, with all nationals over eighteen, registered in Extremadura and in full enjoyment of all political rights entitled to vote.