1979 Spanish local elections
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{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2018}}
{{Infobox election
| election_name = 1979 Spanish local elections
| country = Spain
| flag_year = 1977
| type = parliamentary
| ongoing = no
| previous_election = 1976 Spanish local elections
| previous_year = 1976
| next_election = 1983 Spanish local elections
| next_year = 1983
| seats_for_election = 67,505 councillors in 7,870 municipal councils
1,152 seats in 43 provincial deputations
| opinion_polls =
| registered = 26,591,013
| turnout = 16,621,868 (62.5%)
| election_date = 3 April 1979
| image1 = 170x170px
| leader1 = Adolfo Suárez
| party1 = Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)
| leader_since1 = 3 May 1977
| last_election1 =
| seats1 = 29,288
| seat_change1 =
| popular_vote1 = 5,067,634
| percentage1 = 30.9%
| swing1 =
| image2 = 170x170px
| leader2 = Felipe González
| party2 = Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
| leader_since2 = 13 October 1974
| last_election2 =
| seats2 = 12,069
| seat_change2 =
| popular_vote2 = 4,621,672
| percentage2 = 28.2%
| swing2 =
| image3 = 170x170px
| leader3 = Santiago Carrillo
| party3 = Communist Party of Spain
| leader_since3 = 3 July 1960
| last_election3 =
| seats3 = 3,725
| seat_change3 =
| popular_vote3 = 2,142,049
| percentage3 = 13.0%
| swing3 =
| image4 = 170x170px
| leader4 = Jordi Pujol
| party4 = Convergence and Union
| leader_since4 = 19 September 1978
| last_election4 =
| seats4 = 1,782
| seat_change4 =
| popular_vote4 = 509,128
| percentage4 = 3.1%
| swing4 =
| image5 = 170x170px
| leader5 = Manuel Fraga
| party5 = Democratic Coalition (Spain)
| leader_since5 = 9 October 1976
| last_election5 =
| seats5 = 2,383
| seat_change5 =
| popular_vote5 = 504,780
| percentage5 = 3.1%
| swing5 =
| image6 = 170x170px
| leader6 = Carlos Garaikoetxea
| party6 = Basque Nationalist Party
| leader_since6 = 1977
| last_election6 =
| seats6 = 1,093
| seat_change6 =
| popular_vote6 = 361,160
| percentage6 = 2.2%
| swing6 =
| map_image = SpainProvinceMapMunicipal1979.png
| map_size = 435px
| map_caption = Provincial results map for municipal elections
}}
The 1979 Spanish local elections were held on Tuesday, 3 April 1979, to elect all 67,505 councillors in the 7,870 municipalities of Spain and all 1,152 seats in 43 provincial deputations.{{cite web |url=http://www.interior.gob.es/documents/642317/1201381/Elecciones_municipales_en_Espa%C3%B1a_1979-2011_126141495.pdf/f1dec2dd-164e-46df-94d9-502dafc43a54 |title=Municipal elections in Spain 1979-2011 |website=interior.gob.es |publisher=Ministry of the Interior |language=es |access-date=12 August 2017}}{{cite web |url=http://www.historiaelectoral.com/diputacions83.html |title=Provincial deputation elections since 1979 |language=es |publisher=historiaelectoral.com |access-date=24 September 2017}}{{cite web |url=http://www.historiaelectoral.com/diputacions.html |title=Provincial deputation elections 1979 |language=es |publisher=historiaelectoral.com |access-date=24 September 2017}} The elections were held simultaneously with local elections in the four foral deputations of the Basque Country and Navarre and the ten island councils in the Balearic and Canary Islands.
While the national ruling Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) emerged as the largest party overall, an alliance between the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) and the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) saw municipal control over the main urban areas switching to left-wing parties.{{cite news |author= |date=5 April 1979 |title=Pacto PSOE-PCE para lograr ayuntamientos con mayoría de la izquierda |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1979/04/05/espana/292111208_850215.html |language=es |work=El País |location= |access-date=31 August 2017}}{{cite news |author= |date=3 April 1979 |title=Primeras elecciones municipales |url=http://canalhistoria.es/hoy-en-la-historia/primeras-elecciones-municipales/ |language=es |work=Canal Historia |location= |access-date=31 August 2017}}
Electoral system
;Municipal elections
Municipalities in Spain were local corporations with independent legal personality. They had a governing body, the municipal council or corporation, composed of a mayor, deputy mayors and a plenary assembly of councillors. Voting for the local assemblies was on the basis of universal suffrage, with all nationals over eighteen, registered in the corresponding municipality and in full enjoyment of all political rights entitled to vote. The mayor was in turn elected by the plenary assembly, with a legal clause providing for the candidate of the most-voted party to be automatically elected to the post in the event no other candidate was to gather an absolute majority of votes.
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. Councillors were allocated to municipal councils based on the following scale:
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left; font-size:95%;" |
| width="100"| Population
! width="265"| Councillors |
|---|
| <250
| 5 |
| 251–1,000
| 7 |
| 1,001–2,000
| 9 |
| 2,001–5,000
| 11 |
| 5,001–10,000
| 13 |
| 10,001–20,000
| 17 |
| 20,001–50,000
| 21 |
| 50,001–100,000
| 25 |
| >100,001
| +1 per each 100,000 inhabitants or fraction |
Additionally, municipalities below 25 inhabitants, as well as those having traditionally adopted it, were to be organized through the open council system ({{langx|es|régimen de concejo abierto}}), in which electors would directly vote for the local major.{{cite act |title=Local Elections Law of 1978 |type=Law |work=Official State Gazette |language=es |date=17 July 1978 |url=https://www.boe.es/buscar/doc.php?id=BOE-A-1978-18636 |access-date=12 August 2017}}
The electoral law provided that parties, federations, coalitions and groupings of electors were allowed to present lists of candidates. However, groupings of electors were required to secure the signature of at least 0.1 percent of the electors registered in the municipality for which they sought election—needing to secure, in any case, the signature of 500 electors—. Electors were barred from signing for more than one list of candidates.{{cite act |title=Electoral Rules Decree of 1977 |type=Royal Decree-Law |number=20 |work=Official State Gazette |language=es |date=18 March 1977 |url=https://www.boe.es/buscar/doc.php?id=BOE-A-1977-7445 |access-date=27 December 2016}} Concurrently, parties and federations intending to enter in coalition to take part jointly at an election were required to inform the relevant Electoral Commission within ten days of the election being called.
;Deputations and island councils
Provincial deputations were the governing bodies of provinces in Spain, having an administration role of municipal activities and composed of a provincial president, an administrative body, and a plenary. Basque provinces and Navarre had foral deputations instead—called Juntas Generales in the Basque Country—. For insular provinces, such as the Balearic and Canary Islands, deputations were replaced by island councils in each of the islands or group of islands. For Majorca, Menorca and Ibiza–Formentera this figure was referred to in Spanish as consejo insular ({{langx|ca|consell insular}}), whereas for Gran Canaria, Tenerife, Fuerteventura, La Gomera, El Hierro, Lanzarote and La Palma its name was cabildo insular.
Most deputations were indirectly elected by local councillors from municipalities in each judicial district. Seats were allocated to provincial deputations based on the following scale:
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left; font-size:95%;" |
| width="135"| Population
! width="35"| Seats |
|---|
| <500,000
| 24 |
| 500,001–1,000,000
| 27 |
| >1,000,001
| 30 |
| Madrid and Barcelona
| 51 |
Island councils and the foral deputations of Biscay, Gipuzkoa and Navarre were elected directly by electors under their own, specific electoral regulations.
Municipal elections
=Overall=
{{Pie chart
|caption = Councillor share for different parties in the elections.
|other = yes
|value1 = 43.39
|label1 = UCD
|color1 = {{party color|Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)}}
|value2 = 17.88
|label2 = PSOE
|color2 = {{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party}}
|value3 = 5.51
|label3 = PCE
|color3 = {{party color|Communist Party of Spain}}
|value4 = 3.53
|label4 = CD
|color4 = {{party color|Democratic Coalition (Spain)}}
|value5 = 2.64
|label5 = CiU
|color5 = {{party color|Convergence and Union}}
|value6 = 1.62
|label6 = EAJ/PNV
|color6 = {{party color|Basque Nationalist Party}}
|value7 = 0.41
|label7 = PAR
|color7 = {{party color|Regionalist Aragonese Party}}
|value8 = 0.40
|label8 = HB
|color8 = {{party color|Herri Batasuna}}
|value9 = 0.38
|label9 = PSA–PA
|color9 = {{party color|Andalusian Party}}
|value10 = 0.38
|label10 = BNPG
|color10 = {{party color|Galician National-Popular Bloc}}
|value11 = 0.34
|label11 = PTE
|color11 = {{party color|Party of Labour of Spain}}
|value12 = 0.31
|color12 = {{party color|Republican Left of Catalonia}}
}}
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:right; font-size:95%;"
|+ Summary of the 3 April 1979 municipal election results in Spain → | |||
| style="text-align:left;" rowspan="2" colspan="2" width="500"| Parties and coalitions
! colspan="3"| Popular vote ! colspan="2"| Councillors | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| width="75"| Votes
! width="45"| % ! width="45"| ±pp ! width="45"| Total ! width="45"| +/− | |||
| width="1" style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)}}"|
| align="left"| Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) | 5,067,634 | 30.87 | n/a
| 29,288 | n/a |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party}}"|
| align="left"| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) | 4,621,672 | 28.15 | n/a
| 12,069 | n/a |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Communist Party of Spain}}"|
| align="left"| Communist Party of Spain (PCE) | 2,142,049 | 13.05 | n/a
| 3,725 | n/a |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Convergence and Union}}"|
| align="left"| Convergence and Union (CiU) | 509,128 | 3.10 | n/a
| 1,782 | n/a |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Democratic Coalition (Spain)}}"|
| align="left"| Democratic Coalition (CD) | 504,780 | 3.07 | n/a
| 2,383 | n/a |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Basque Nationalist Party}}"|
| align="left"| Basque Nationalist Party (EAJ/PNV) | 361,160 | 2.20 | n/a
| 1,093 | n/a |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Andalusian Party}}"|
| align="left"| Socialist Party of Andalusia–Andalusian Party (PSA–PA) | 245,507 | 1.50 | n/a
| 259 | n/a |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Herri Batasuna}}"|
| align="left"| Popular Unity (HB) | 164,516 | 1.00 | n/a
| 267 | n/a |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Party of Labour of Spain}}"|
| align="left"| Party of Labour of Spain (PTE) | 148,083 | 0.90 | n/a
| 229 | n/a |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Workers' Revolutionary Organization (Spain)}}"|
| align="left"| Workers' Revolutionary Organization (ORT) | 114,539 | 0.70 | n/a
| 107 | n/a |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Republican Left of Catalonia}}"|
| align="left"| Republican Left of Catalonia–National Front of Catalonia (ERC–FNC) | 103,547 | 0.63 | n/a
| 210 | n/a |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Communist Movement (Spain)}}"|
| align="left"| Communist Movement–Organization of Communist Left (MC–OIC) | 86,792 | 0.53 | n/a
| 59 | n/a |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Galician National-Popular Bloc}}"|
| align="left"| Galician National-Popular Bloc (BNPG) | 78,216 | 0.48 | n/a
| 258 | n/a |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Galician Unity}}"|
| align="left"| Galician Unity (PG–POG–PSG) | 69,060 | 0.42 | n/a
| 141 | n/a |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|National Union (Spain)}}"|
| align="left"| National Union (UN) | 61,889 | 0.38 | n/a
| 122 | n/a |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Euskadiko Ezkerra}}"|
| align="left"| Basque Country Left (EE) | 59,332 | 0.36 | n/a
| 84 | n/a |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Regionalist Aragonese Party}}"|
| align="left"| Regionalist Aragonese Party (PAR) | 58,661 | 0.36 | n/a
| 276 | n/a |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Canarian People's Union}}"|
| align="left"| Canarian People's Union (UPC) | 55,779 | 0.34 | n/a
| 30 | n/a |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Socialist Action Party (Spain)}}"|
| align="left"| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (historical) (PSOEh) | 26,585 | 0.16 | n/a
| 45 | n/a |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Regionalist Party of Cantabria}}"|
| align="left"| Regionalist Party of Cantabria (PRC) | 23,870 | 0.15 | n/a
| 81 | n/a |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Revolutionary Communist League (Spain)}}"|
| align="left"| Revolutionary Communist League (LCR) | 18,390 | 0.11 | n/a
| 7 | n/a |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Valencian Regional Union}}"|
| align="left"| Valencian Regional Union (URV) | 18,015 | 0.11 | n/a
| 2 | n/a |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Cantonal Party}}"|
| align="left"| Cantonal Party (PCAN) | 14,753 | 0.09 | n/a
| 7 | n/a |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Communist Collective of Catalonia}}"|
| align="left"| Communists of Catalonia (ComC) | 14,529 | 0.09 | n/a
| 0 | n/a |
| bgcolor="white"|
| align="left"| Independent Councillors for La Rioja (CIR) | 13,580 | 0.08 | n/a
| 147 | n/a |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Navarrese People's Union}}"|
| align="left"| Navarrese People's Union (UPN) | 12,305 | 0.07 | n/a
| 10 | n/a |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Socialist Party of National Liberation}}"|
| align="left"| Socialist Party of National Liberation (PSAN) | 10,907 | 0.07 | n/a
| 5 | n/a |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Nationalist Party of the Valencian Country}}"|
| align="left"| Nationalist Party of the Valencian Country (PNPV) | 10,773 | 0.07 | n/a
| 12 | n/a |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Communist Unification of Spain}}"|
| align="left"| Communist Unification of Spain (UCE) | 9,908 | 0.06 | n/a
| 4 | n/a |
| bgcolor="white"|
| align="left"| Candidates for Democracy (CPLD) | 9,778 | 0.06 | n/a
| 77 | n/a |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Carlist Party (1970)}}"|
| align="left"| Carlist Party (PC) | 9,548 | 0.06 | n/a
| 9 | n/a |
| bgcolor="white"|
| align="left"| Electoral Group of Ceuta–Democratic Local Council (AECAD) | 8,855 | 0.05 | n/a
| 12 | n/a |
| bgcolor="white"|
| align="left"| Free Electoral Group of Tenerife (ALET) | 8,815 | 0.05 | n/a
| 4 | n/a |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Socialist Party of Majorca}}"|
| align="left"| Socialist Party of Majorca (PSM) | 8,123 | 0.05 | n/a
| 11 | n/a |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Republican Left (Spain, 1977)}}"|
| align="left"| Republican Left (IR) | 7,661 | 0.05 | n/a
| 5 | n/a |
| bgcolor="white"|
| align="left"| Leonese Peasants Electoral Group (AECL) | 7,496 | 0.05 | n/a
| 112 | n/a |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Spanish Communist Workers' Party}}"|
| align="left"| Spanish Communist Workers' Party (PCOE) | 7,400 | 0.05 | n/a
| 1 | n/a |
| bgcolor="white"|
| align="left"| Others | 1,702,022 | 10.37 | n/a
| 14,572 | n/a |
| align="left" colspan="2"| Blank ballots
| 20,038 | 0.12 | n/a
| bgcolor="#E9E9E9" colspan="2"| | |
| colspan="7" bgcolor="#E9E9E9"| | |||
| style="font-weight:bold;"
| align="left" colspan="2"| Total | 16,415,695 | 100.00 | bgcolor="#E9E9E9"|
| 67,505 | n/a |
| colspan="7" bgcolor="#E9E9E9"| | |||
| align="left" colspan="2"| Valid votes
| 16,415,695 | 98.76 | n/a
| bgcolor="#E9E9E9" colspan="2" rowspan="5"| | |
| align="left" colspan="2"| Invalid votes
| 206,173 | 1.24 | n/a | |
| style="font-weight:bold;"
| align="left" colspan="2"| Votes cast / turnout | 16,621,868 | 62.51 | n/a | |
| align="left" colspan="2"| Abstentions
| 9,969,145 | 37.49 | n/a | |
| style="font-weight:bold;"
| align="left" colspan="2"| Registered voters | 26,591,013 | bgcolor="#E9E9E9" colspan="2"| | ||
| colspan="7" bgcolor="#E9E9E9"| | |||
| align="left" colspan="7"| Sources{{cite web |url=http://www.infoelectoral.mir.es/min/busquedaAvanzadaAction.html?vuelta=1&codTipoEleccion=4&codPeriodo=197904&codEstado=99&codComunidad=0&codProvincia=0&codMunicipio=0&codDistrito=0&codSeccion=0&codMesa=0 |title=Electoral Results Consultation. Municipal. April 1979. National totals |language=es |website=infoelectoral.mir.es |publisher=Ministry of the Interior |access-date=24 September 2017 |archive-date=1 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801061324/http://www.infoelectoral.mir.es/min/busquedaAvanzadaAction.html?vuelta=1&codTipoEleccion=4&codPeriodo=197904&codEstado=99&codComunidad=0&codProvincia=0&codMunicipio=0&codDistrito=0&codSeccion=0&codMesa=0 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=http://www.historiaelectoral.com/muni.html |title=Municipal elections (overall results 1979-2011) |language=es |publisher=historiaelectoral.com |access-date=24 September 2017}} |
{{bar box
|title=Popular vote
|titlebar=#ddd
|width=550px
|barwidth=500px
|bars=
{{bar percent|UCD|{{party color|Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)}}|30.87}}
{{bar percent|PSOE|{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party}}|28.15}}
{{bar percent|PCE|{{party color|Communist Party of Spain}}|13.05}}
{{bar percent|CiU|{{party color|Convergence and Union}}|3.10}}
{{bar percent|CD|{{party color|Democratic Coalition (Spain)}}|3.07}}
{{bar percent|EAJ/PNV|{{party color|Basque Nationalist Party}}|2.20}}
{{bar percent|PSA–PA|{{party color|Andalusian Party}}|1.50}}
{{bar percent|HB|{{party color|Herri Batasuna}}|1.00}}
{{bar percent|PTE|{{party color|Party of Labour of Spain}}|0.90}}
{{bar percent|ORT|{{party color|Workers' Revolutionary Organization (Spain)}}|0.70}}
{{bar percent|ERC–FNC|{{party color|Republican Left of Catalonia}}|0.63}}
{{bar percent|MC–OIC|{{party color|Communist Movement (Spain)}}|0.53}}
{{bar percent|Others|#777777|14.17}}
{{bar percent|Blank ballots|#DDDDDD|0.12}}
}}
=City control=
The following table lists party control in provincial capitals, as well as in municipalities above or around 75,000.{{cite web |url=http://www.historiaelectoral.com/muni4.html |title=Municipal elections (city majors by party) |website=historiaelectoral.com |publisher=Historia Electoral |language=es |access-date=24 February 2018}}
| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%;" |
| Municipality
! Population ! colspan="2" style="width:375px;"| New control |
|---|
| A Coruña
| 224,289 | width="1" style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Galician Unity}}"| | Galician Unity (PG–POG–PSG) {{smaller|(UCD in 1979)}} |
| Albacete
| 105,408 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party}}"| | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) |
| Alcalá de Henares
| 110,102 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party}}"| | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) |
| Alcorcón
| 119,300 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party}}"| | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) |
| Algeciras
| 92,273 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Communist Party of Spain}}"| | Communist Party of Spain (PCE) |
| Alicante
| 232,019 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party}}"| | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) |
| Almería
| 133,844 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party}}"| | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) |
| Ávila
| 37,302 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)}}"| | Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) |
| Avilés
| 89,285 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party}}"| | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) |
| Badajoz
| 110,290 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)}}"| | Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) |
| Badalona
| 229,780 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia}}"| | Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSUC) |
| Barakaldo
| 122,540 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Basque Nationalist Party}}"| | Basque Nationalist Party (EAJ/PNV) |
| Barcelona
| 1,754,579 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Socialists' Party of Catalonia}}"| | Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC–PSOE) |
| Bilbao
| 450,661 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Basque Nationalist Party}}"| | Basque Nationalist Party (EAJ/PNV) |
| Burgos
| 145,473 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)}}"| | Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) |
| Cáceres
| 63,181 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)}}"| | Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) |
| Cádiz
| 153,327 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party}}"| | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) |
| Cartagena
| 162,630 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)}}"| | Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) |
| Castellón de la Plana
| 115,522 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party}}"| | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) |
| Ciudad Real
| 48,075 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)}}"| | Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) |
| Córdoba
| 269,998 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Communist Party of Spain}}"| | Communist Party of Spain (PCE) |
| Cornellà de Llobregat
| 91,563 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia}}"| | Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSUC) |
| Cuenca
| 38,601 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)}}"| | Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) |
| Elche
| 160,071 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party}}"| | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) |
| Ferrol
| 88,161 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party}}"| | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) |
| Getafe
| 124,601 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party}}"| | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) |
| Gijón
| 253,294 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party}}"| | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) |
| Girona
| 83,929 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Socialists' Party of Catalonia}}"| | Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC–PSOE) |
| Granada
| 225,034 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party}}"| | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) |
| Guadalajara
| 47,758 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party}}"| | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) |
| Huelva
| 122,494 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party}}"| | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) |
| Huesca
| 38,095 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)}}"| | Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) |
| Jaén
| 88,968 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party}}"| | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) |
| Jerez de la Frontera
| 180,098 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Andalusian Party}}"| |
| L'Hospitalet de Llobregat
| 289,747 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Socialists' Party of Catalonia}}"| | Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC–PSOE) |
| Las Palmas
| 345,925 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Canarian People's Union}}"| | Canarian People's Union (UPC) {{smaller|(PSOE in 1980; UCD in 1982)}} |
| Leganés
| 151,235 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party}}"| | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) |
| León
| 120,761 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party}}"| | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) {{smaller|(UCD in 1979)}} |
| Lleida
| 106,190 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Socialists' Party of Catalonia}}"| | Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC–PSOE) |
| Logroño
| 103,097 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)}}"| | Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) |
| Lugo
| 71,574 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)}}"| | Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) |
| Madrid
| 3,355,720 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party}}"| | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) |
| Málaga
| 454,882 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party}}"| | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) |
| Mataró
| 96,942 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Socialists' Party of Catalonia}}"| | Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC–PSOE) |
| Móstoles
| 101,266 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party}}"| | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) |
| Murcia
| 283,552 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party}}"| | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) |
| Ourense
| 88,029 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)}}"| | Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) |
| Oviedo
| 179,866 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)}}"| | Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) |
| Palencia
| 65,896 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)}}"| | Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) |
| Palma
| 283,113 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party}}"| | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) |
| Pamplona
| 173,255 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party}}"| | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) |
| Pontevedra
| 63,863 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)}}"| | Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) |
| Reus
| 82,407 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Socialists' Party of Catalonia}}"| | Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC–PSOE) |
| Sabadell
| 187,247 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia}}"| | Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSUC) |
| Salamanca
| 141,474 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party}}"| | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) |
| San Cristóbal de La Laguna
| 112,472 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party}}"| | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) |
| San Sebastián
| 174,818 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Basque Nationalist Party}}"| | Basque Nationalist Party (EAJ/PNV) |
| Santa Coloma de Gramenet
| 140,613 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia}}"| | Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSUC) |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife
| 183,583 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)}}"| | Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) |
| Santander
| 174,809 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)}}"| | Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) |
| Santiago de Compostela
| 81,536 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)}}"| | Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) {{smaller|(PDL in 1982)}} |
| Segovia
| 48,623 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)}}"| | Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) |
| Seville
| 622,532 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Andalusian Party}}"| |
| Soria
| 28,845 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)}}"| | Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) |
| Tarragona
| 108,131 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Socialists' Party of Catalonia}}"| | Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC–PSOE) |
| Terrassa
| 157,442 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Socialists' Party of Catalonia}}"| | Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC–PSOE) |
| Teruel
| 24,590 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)}}"| | Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) |
| Toledo
| 54,999 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)}}"| | Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) |
| Valencia
| 737,129 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party}}"| | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) |
| Valladolid
| 308,523 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party}}"| | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) |
| Vigo
| 254,051 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party}}"| | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) |
| Vitoria-Gasteiz
| 181,216 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Basque Nationalist Party}}"| | Basque Nationalist Party (EAJ/PNV) |
| Zamora
| 54,819 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)}}"| | Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) |
| Zaragoza
| 555,424 | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party}}"| | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) |
Provincial deputations
=Summary=
{{Pie chart
|caption = Provincial deputy share for different parties in the elections.
|other = yes
|value1 = 62.24
|label1 = UCD
|color1 = {{party color|Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)}}
|value2 = 24.22
|label2 = PSOE
|color2 = {{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party}}
|value3 = 5.38
|label3 = PCE
|color3 = {{party color|Communist Party of Spain}}
|value4 = 3.91
|label4 = CiU
|color4 = {{party color|Convergence and Union}}
|value5 = 2.52
|label5 = CD
|color5 = {{party color|Democratic Coalition (Spain)}}
|value6 = 0.35
|label6 = PAR
|color6 = {{party color|Regionalist Aragonese Party}}
|value7 = 0.26
|label7 = BNPG
|color7 = {{party color|Galician National-Popular Bloc}}
|value8 = 0.17
|label8 = PSA–PA
|color8 = {{party color|Andalusian Party}}
|value9 = 0.17
|label9 = PG–POG–PSG
|color9 = {{party color|Galician Unity}}
|value10 = 0.09
|label10 = PTE
|color10 = {{party color|Party of Labour of Spain}}
|value11 = 0.09
|label11 = PRC
|color11 = {{party color|Regionalist Party of Cantabria}}
|value12 = 0.09
|label12 = PRE
|color12 = {{party color|Spanish Ruralist Party}}
}}
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:right; font-size:95%;"
|+ Summary of the 3 April 1979 provincial deputations election results → | |
| style="text-align:left;" rowspan="2" colspan="2" width="500"| Parties and coalitions
! colspan="2"| Seats | |
|---|---|
| width="35"| Total
! width="35"| +/− | |
| width="1" style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)}}"|
| align="left"| Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) | 717 | n/a |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party}}"|
| align="left"| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) | 279 | n/a |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Communist Party of Spain}}"|
| align="left"| Communist Party of Spain (PCE) | 62 | n/a |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Convergence and Union}}"|
| align="left"| Convergence and Union (CiU) | 45 | n/a |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Democratic Coalition (Spain)}}"|
| align="left"| Democratic Coalition (CD) | 29 | n/a |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Regionalist Aragonese Party}}"|
| align="left"| Regionalist Aragonese Party (PAR) | 4 | n/a |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Galician National-Popular Bloc}}"|
| align="left"| Galician National-Popular Bloc (BNPG) | 3 | n/a |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Andalusian Party}}"|
| align="left"| Socialist Party of Andalusia–Andalusian Party (PSA–PA) | 2 | n/a |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Galician Unity}}"|
| align="left"| Galician Unity (PG–POG–PSG) | 2 | n/a |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Party of Labour of Spain}}"|
| align="left"| Party of Labour of Spain (PTE) | 1 | n/a |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Regionalist Party of Cantabria}}"|
| align="left" | Regionalist Party of Cantabria (PRC) | 1 | n/a |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Spanish Ruralist Party}}"|
| align="left"| Spanish Ruralist Party (PRE) | 1 | n/a |
| bgcolor="white"|
| align="left"| Others | 6 | n/a |
| colspan="4" bgcolor="#E9E9E9"| | |
| style="font-weight:bold;"
| align="left" colspan="2"| Total | 1,152 | n/a |
| colspan="4" bgcolor="#E9E9E9"| | |
| align="left" colspan="4"| Sources |
=Deputation control=
The following table lists party control in provincial deputations.
| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%;" |
| Province
! colspan="2" style="width:375px;"| New control |
|---|
| A Coruña
| width="1" style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)}}"| | Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) |
| Albacete
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party}}"| | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) |
| Alicante
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)}}"| | Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) |
| Almería
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)}}"| | Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) |
| Ávila
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)}}"| | Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) |
| Badajoz
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)}}"| | Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) |
| Barcelona
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Republican Left of Catalonia}}"| | Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) {{smaller|(PSC–PSOE in 1980)}} |
| Burgos
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)}}"| | Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) |
| Cáceres
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)}}"| | Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) |
| Cádiz
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party}}"| | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) |
| Castellón
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)}}"| | Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) |
| Ciudad Real
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)}}"| | Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) |
| Córdoba
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)}}"| | Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) |
| Cuenca
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)}}"| | Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) |
| Girona
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Convergence and Union}}"| | Convergence and Union (CiU) |
| Granada
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)}}"| | Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) |
| Guadalajara
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)}}"| | Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) |
| Huelva
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)}}"| | Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) |
| Huesca
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)}}"| | Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) |
| Jaén
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party}}"| | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) |
| León
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)}}"| | Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) |
| Lleida
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)}}"| | Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) |
| Logroño
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)}}"| | Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) |
| Lugo
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)}}"| | Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) |
| Málaga
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party}}"| | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) |
| Madrid
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party}}"| | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) |
| Murcia
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party}}"| | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) |
| Ourense
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)}}"| | Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) |
| Oviedo
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)}}"| | Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) |
| Palencia
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)}}"| | Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) |
| Pontevedra
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)}}"| | Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) |
| Salamanca
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)}}"| | Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) |
| Santander
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)}}"| | Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) |
| Segovia
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)}}"| | Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) |
| Seville
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party}}"| | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) |
| Soria
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)}}"| | Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) |
| Tarragona
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Convergence and Union}}"| | Convergence and Union (CiU) |
| Teruel
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)}}"| | Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) |
| Toledo
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)}}"| | Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) |
| Valencia
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party}}"| | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) |
| Valladolid
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)}}"| | Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) |
| Zamora
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)}}"| | Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) |
| Zaragoza
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)}}"| | Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) |