Valencian regional election, 1983

8 May 1983

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All 89 seats in the Corts Valencianes
45 seats needed for a majority

Opinion polls

Registered

2,654,967

Turnout

1,931,142 (72.7%)

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Joan Lerma	Manuel Giner Miralles	José Galán
Party	PSOE	AP–PDP–UL–UV	PCE–PCPV
Leader since	31 July 1979	December 1981	23 September 1980
Leader's seat	Valencia	Valencia	Alicante
Seats won	51	32	6
Popular vote	982,567	609,519	142,570
Percentage	51.4%	31.9%	7.5%

Constituency results map for the Corts Valencianes

President before election

Joan Lerma
PSOE

Elected President

Joan Lerma
PSOE

The 1983 Valencian regional election was held on Sunday, 8 May 1983, to elect the 1st Corts of the Valencian Community. All 89 seats in the Corts were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in 12 other autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain.

The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) won the election with an absolute majority of 51 out of 89 seats and almost 1 million votes (51.4% of the vote). The People's Coalition, headed by the conservative People's Alliance, became the second political force and the main opposition party in the Corts Valencianes with 32 seats. The Communist Party of Spain (PCE) managed to surpass the 5% autonomic threshold and entered the Courts with 6 seats.

As a result of the election, PSPV-PSOE leader Joan Lerma became the first democratically elected President of the Valencian Community.

The 89 members of the Corts Valencianes were elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with a threshold of 5 per 100 of valid votes—which included blank ballots—being applied regionally. Parties not reaching the threshold were not taken into consideration for seat distribution. Seats were allocated to constituencies, corresponding to the provinces of Alicante, Castellón and Valencia. Each constituency was allocated a fixed number of seats: 29 for Alicante, 25 for Castellón and 35 for Valencia. Voting was on the basis of universal suffrage, with all nationals over eighteen, registered in the Valencian Community and in full enjoyment of all political rights entitled to vote.

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