Madrilenian regional election, 1983

8 May 1983

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All 94 seats in the Assembly of Madrid
48 seats needed for a majority

Opinion polls

Registered

3,381,610

Turnout

2,357,425 (69.7%)

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Joaquín Leguina	Luis Guillermo Perinat	Lorenzo Hernández
Party	PSOE	AP–PDP–UL	PCE
Leader since	14 December 1979	25 January 1983	1983
Leader's seat	Madrid	Madrid	Madrid
Seats won	51	34	9
Popular vote	1,181,277	798,853	207,058
Percentage	50.5%	34.1%	8.8%

Elected President

Joaquín Leguina
PSOE

The 1983 Madrilenian regional election was held on Sunday, 8 May 1983, to elect the 1st Assembly of the Autonomous Community of Madrid. All 94 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 election was won by the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), who won an absolute majority of seats and votes, the only occasion on which the party has achieved this in a Madrid Assembly election. In total the PSOE won 51 seats.

The People's Coalition, an electoral alliance led by the People's Alliance (AP), which also included the People's Democratic Party (PDP) and the Liberal Union (UL), emerged as the second largest grouping in the Assembly.

The Communist Party of Spain was the only other party to win seats in the Assembly. In 1986, the party joined with other left-wing movements to form the current United Left.

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

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