1983 Barcelona City Council election

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1983 Barcelona City Council election
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  1979 8 May 1983 1987  

All 43 seats in the City Council of Barcelona
22 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered1,359,589 Red Arrow Down.svg 8.2%
Turnout916,684 (67.4%)
Green Arrow Up Darker.svg 13.1 pp
 First partySecond partyThird party
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Leader Pasqual Maragall Ramon Trias Alexandre Pedrós
Party PSC–PSOE CiU AP–PDP–PL
Leader since2 December 198219831983
Last election16 seats, 34.0%8 seats, 18.6%0 seats, 3.0% [lower-alpha 1]
Seats won21136
Seat change Green Arrow Up Darker.svg 5 Green Arrow Up Darker.svg 5 Green Arrow Up Darker.svg 6
Popular vote412,991246,780117,052
Percentage45.8%27.4%13.0%
Swing Green Arrow Up Darker.svg 11.8 pp Green Arrow Up Darker.svg 8.8 pp Green Arrow Up Darker.svg 10.0 pp

 Fourth party
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Leader Jordi Solé Tura
Party PSUC
Leader since1983
Last election9 seats, 18.9%
Seats won3
Seat change Red Arrow Down.svg 6
Popular vote62,421
Percentage6.9%
Swing Red Arrow Down.svg 12.0 pp

Mayor before election

Pasqual Maragall
PSC

Elected Mayor

Pasqual Maragall
PSC

The 1983 Barcelona City Council election, also the 1983 Barcelona municipal election, was held on Sunday, 8 May 1983, to elect the 2nd City Council of the municipality of Barcelona. All 43 seats in the City Council were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in thirteen autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain.

Contents

Electoral system

The City Council of Barcelona (Catalan : Ajuntament de Barcelona, Spanish : Ayuntamiento de Barcelona) was the top-tier administrative and governing body of the municipality of Barcelona, composed of the mayor, the government council and the elected plenary assembly. [1] [2] [3] Voting for the local assembly was on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprised all nationals over 18 years of age, registered in the municipality of Barcelona and in full enjoyment of their civil and political rights.

Local councillors were elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with an electoral threshold of five percent of valid votes—which included blank ballots—being applied in each local council. [1] [2] [3] Councillors were allocated to municipal councils based on the following scale:

PopulationCouncillors
<2505
251–1,0007
1,001–2,0009
2,001–5,00011
5,001–10,00013
10,001–20,00017
20,001–50,00021
50,001–100,00025
>100,001+1 per each 100,000 inhabitants or fraction
+1 if total is an even number

The mayor was indirectly elected by the plenary assembly. A legal clause required that mayoral candidates earned the vote of an absolute majority of councillors, or else the candidate of the most-voted party in the assembly was to be automatically appointed to the post. In the event of a tie, the eldest one would be elected. [1] [2]

The electoral law allowed for parties and federations registered in the interior ministry, coalitions and groupings of electors to present lists of candidates. Parties and federations intending to form a coalition ahead of an election were required to inform the relevant Electoral Commission within fifteen days of the election call, whereas groupings of electors needed to secure the signature of at least one-thousandth of the electorate in the constituencies for which they sought election—with a compulsory minimum of 500 signatures—disallowing electors from signing for more than one list of candidates. [3]

Opinion polls

The tables below list opinion polling results in reverse chronological order, showing the most recent first and using the dates when the survey fieldwork was done, as opposed to the date of publication. Where the fieldwork dates are unknown, the date of publication is given instead. The highest percentage figure in each polling survey is displayed with its background shaded in the leading party's colour. If a tie ensues, this is applied to the figures with the highest percentages. The "Lead" column on the right shows the percentage-point difference between the parties with the highest percentages in a poll.

Voting intention estimates

The table below lists weighted voting intention estimates. Refusals are generally excluded from the party vote percentages, while question wording and the treatment of "don't know" responses and those not intending to vote may vary between polling organisations. When available, seat projections determined by the polling organisations are also displayed below (or in place of) the voting estimates in a smaller font; 22 seats were required for an absolute majority in the City Council of Barcelona.

Voting preferences

The table below lists raw, unweighted voting preferences.

Results

Summary of the 8 May 1983 City Council of Barcelona election results
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Parties and alliancesPopular voteSeats
Votes %±pp Total+/−
Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC–PSOE)412,99145.80+11.7521+5
Convergence and Union (CiU)246,78027.37+8.7813+5
People's Coalition (APPDPUL)1117,05212.98+9.986+6
Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSUC)62,4216.92–11.983–6
Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC)34,7773.86–1.370–2
Party of the Communists of Catalonia (PCC)9,6531.07New0±0
Democratic and Social Centre (CDS)8,5180.94New0±0
Workers' Socialist Party (PST)2,6990.30New0±0
Spanish Phalanx of the CNSO (FE–JONS)1,1940.13New0±0
Revolutionary Workers' Party of Spain (PORE)8640.10New0±0
Popular Struggle Coalition (CLP)8480.09New0±0
Conservatives of Catalonia (CiC)00.00New0±0
Centrists of Catalonia (CC–UCD) n/a n/a–16.730–8
Blank ballots3,8470.43+0.11
Total901,64443±0
Valid votes901,64498.36–1.27
Invalid votes15,0401.64+1.27
Votes cast / turnout916,68467.42+13.15
Abstentions442,90532.58–13.15
Registered voters1,359,589
Sources [6] [7] [8]
Footnotes:
Popular vote
PSC–PSOE
45.80%
CiU
27.37%
AP–PDP–UL
12.98%
PSUC
6.92%
ERC
3.86%
PCC
1.07%
Others
1.57%
Blank ballots
0.43%
Seats
PSC–PSOE
48.84%
CiU
30.23%
AP–PDP–UL
13.95%
PSUC
6.98%

Notes

  1. Data for CD in the 1979 election.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Results for CD (1979), SC (1980) and AP–PDP (1982).

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References

Opinion poll sources
  1. "El PSC-PSOE gana en Cataluña, y en Barcelona con coalición". El País (in Spanish). 1 May 1983.
  2. "Ficha técnica de los sondeos". El País (in Spanish). 1 May 1983.
  3. "Preelectoral municipales y autonómicas 1983 (III). Barcelona capital (Estudio nº 1351. Marzo 1983)" (PDF). CIS (in Spanish). 25 March 1983.
Other
  1. 1 2 3 Ley 39/1978, de 17 de julio, de elecciones locales (Law 39) (in Spanish). 17 July 1978. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
  2. 1 2 3 Ley Orgánica 6/1983, de 2 de marzo, por la que se modifican determinados artículos de la Ley 39/1978, de 17 de julio, de Elecciones Locales (Organic Law 6) (in Spanish). 2 March 1983. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
  3. 1 2 3 Real Decreto-ley 20/1977, de 18 de marzo, sobre Normas Electorales (Royal Decree-Law 20) (in Spanish). 18 March 1977. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
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