1983 Valencia City Council election

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1983 Valencia City Council election
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  1979 8 May 1983 1987  

All 33 seats in the City Council of Valencia
17 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered553,067 Green Arrow Up Darker.svg 0.2%
Turnout386,699 (69.9%)
Green Arrow Up Darker.svg 7.6 pp
 First partySecond partyThird party
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Leader Ricard Pérez Casado Martín Luis Quirós Pedro Zamora
Party PSOE AP–PDPUVUL PCE–PCPV
Leader since5 October 197919831979
Last election13 seats, 36.1%Did not contest6 seats, 16.0%
Seats won18132
Seat change Green Arrow Up Darker.svg 5 Green Arrow Up Darker.svg 13 Red Arrow Down.svg 4
Popular vote186,445141,68928,863
Percentage48.8%37.1%7.6%
Swing Green Arrow Up Darker.svg 12.7 pp New party Red Arrow Down.svg 8.4 pp

Mayor before election

Ricard Pérez Casado
PSOE

Elected mayor

Ricard Pérez Casado
PSOE

The 1983 Valencia City Council election, also the 1983 Valencia municipal election, was held on Sunday, 8 May 1983, to elect the 2nd City Council of the municipality of Valencia. All 33 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 Valencia (Valencian : Ajuntament de València, Spanish : Ayuntamiento de Valencia) was the top-tier administrative and governing body of the municipality of Valencia, 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 Valencia 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; 17 seats were required for an absolute majority in the City Council of Valencia.

Voting preferences

The table below lists raw, unweighted voting preferences.

Results

Summary of the 8 May 1983 City Council of Valencia election results
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Parties and alliancesPopular voteSeats
Votes %±pp Total+/−
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)186,44548.83+12.7218+5
People's CoalitionValencian Union (APPDPUVUL)141,68937.11New13+13
Communist Party of the Valencian Country (PCE–PCPV)28,8637.56–8.402–4
Democratic and Social Centre (CDS)7,3601.93New0±0
Valencian People's Union (UPV)15,6851.49+0.310±0
Valencian Regional Union (URV)4,7171.24–3.870–1
Liberal Democratic Party (PDL)3,2250.84New0±0
Valencian Independent Organization (OIV)1,6510.43New0±0
Popular Struggle Coalition (CLP)5230.14New0±0
Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) n/a n/a–36.760–13
Blank ballots1,6560.43+0.11
Total381,81433±0
Valid votes381,81498.74+0.18
Invalid votes4,8851.26–0.18
Votes cast / turnout386,69969.92+7.58
Abstentions166,36830.08–7.58
Registered voters553,067
Sources [5] [6] [7]
Footnotes:
Popular vote
PSOE
48.83%
AP–PDPUVUL
37.11%
PCE–PCPV
7.56%
CDS
1.93%
UPV
1.49%
URV
1.24%
Others
1.41%
Blank ballots
0.43%
Seats
PSOE
54.55%
AP–PDPUVUL
39.39%
PCE–PCPV
6.06%

Notes

  1. 1 2 Results for AP–PDP.

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References

Opinion poll sources
  1. "Los socialistas pueden alcanzar los dos tercios del Parlamento autónomo". 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). Valencia 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.
  4. 1 2 "Electoral Results Consultation. Congress. October 1982. Valencia Municipality". Ministry of the Interior (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 November 2017.
  5. "Municipal Elections. Valencia" (PDF). www.valencia.es (in Spanish). City Council of Valencia. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  6. "Electoral Results Consultation. Municipal. May 1983. Valencia Municipality". Ministry of the Interior (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 November 2017.
  7. "Eleccions municipals a València (1979 - 2015)". Historia Electoral.com (in Catalan). Retrieved 30 September 2017.