Murcian regional election, 1983

8 May 1983

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All 43 seats in the Regional Assembly of Murcia
22 seats needed for a majority

Registered

675,082

Turnout

462,212 (68.5%)

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Andrés Hernández Ros	José Lucas	Pedro Antonio Ríos
Party	PSOE	AP–PDP–UL	PCE
Leader since	1978	1983	1983
Seats won	26	16	1
Popular vote	238,968	162,074	32,113
Percentage	52.2%	35.4%	7.0%

Constituency results map for the Regional Assembly of Murcia

President before election

Andrés Hernández Ros
PSOE

Elected President

Andrés Hernández Ros
PSOE

The 1983 Murcian regional election was held on Sunday, 8 May 1983, to elect the 1st Regional Assembly of the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia. All 43 seats in the Regional 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) went on to win a comfortable absolute majority of both seats and votes, emerging as the largest party in the Region. 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), became the second political force and the main opposition party, whereas the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) also entered the Assembly, obtaining 1 seat.

As a result of the election, Socialist Andrés Hernández Ros, who since 1979 had been the President of the Regional Council of Murcia (the pre-autonomic regional government), became the first democratically elected President of the region.

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