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1983 Madrid City Council election

{{Infobox election

| election_name = 1983 Madrid City Council election

| country = City of Madrid

| type = parliamentary

| ongoing = no

| previous_election = 1979 Madrid City Council election

| previous_year = 1979

| next_election = 1987 Madrid City Council election

| next_year = 1987

| outgoing_members =

| elected_members =

| seats_for_election = All 57 seats in the City Council of Madrid

| majority_seats = 29

| opinion_polls = #Opinion polls

| registered = 2,380,846 File:Green Arrow Up Darker.svg0.1%

| turnout = 1,685,115 (70.8%)
File:Green Arrow Up Darker.svg4.8 pp

| election_date = 8 May 1983

| image1 = 170x170px

| leader1 = Enrique Tierno Galván

| party1 = Madrilenian Socialist Federation

| leader_since1 = 1979

| last_election1 = 25 seats, 39.5%

| seats1 = 30

| seat_change1 = File:Green Arrow Up Darker.svg5

| popular_vote1 = 808,350

| percentage1 = 48.4%

| swing1 = File:Green Arrow Up Darker.svg8.9 pp

| image2 = 170x170px

| leader2 = Jorge Verstrynge

| party2 = People's Coalition (Spain, 1983)

| leader_since2 = 1983

| last_election2 = Did not contest

| seats2 = 23

| seat_change2 = File:Green Arrow Up Darker.svg23

| popular_vote2 = 631,183

| percentage2 = 37.8%

| swing2 = New party

| image3 = 170x170px

| leader3 = Adolfo Pastor

| party3 = Communist Party of Madrid

| leader_since3 = 1983

| last_election3 = 9 seats, 14.7%

| seats3 = 4

| seat_change3 = File:Red Arrow Down.svg5

| popular_vote3 = 113,112

| percentage3 = 6.8%

| swing3 = File:Red Arrow Down.svg7.9 pp

| map_image =

| map_size =

| map_caption =

| title = Mayor

| before_election = Enrique Tierno Galván

| before_party = Madrilenian Socialist Federation

| after_election = Enrique Tierno Galván

| after_party = Madrilenian Socialist Federation

}}

The 1983 Madrid City Council election, also the 1983 Madrid municipal election, was held on Sunday, 8 May 1983, to elect the 2nd City Council of the municipality of Madrid. All 57 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.

The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) won with an absolute majority of 30 councillors and 48.7% of the vote, the only time to date it would do so. The People's Coalition, the electoral alliance led by the People's Alliance (AP) and including the People's Democratic Party (PDP) and the Liberal Union (UL), consolidated its gains made in the 1982 Spanish general election and emerged as the second political force in the city, with 38.0% and 23 seats in the City Council. Meanwhile, the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) vote fell as a result of PSOE's growth, losing over half of its councillors down to 4.{{cite news |date=9 May 1983 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1983/05/09/espana/421279203_850215.html |title=El PSOE consume la mayoría absoluta de concejales Madrid a costa de la baja del PCE |language=es |newspaper=El País |access-date=9 December 2019}} The Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) had collapsed in the October general election and was disbanded in early 1983. Several UCD split parties such as Liberal Democratic Party (PDL) or former Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez' Democratic and Social Centre (CDS) contested the election but failed to win any representation.

As a result of the election, Enrique Tierno Galván, was re-elected as Mayor of Madrid for a second term in office. Tierno Galván would die halfway throughout his term of natural causes, being substituted by party colleague Juan Barranco.

Electoral system

The City Council of Madrid ({{langx|es|Ayuntamiento de Madrid}}) was the top-tier administrative and governing body of the municipality of Madrid, composed of the mayor, the government council and the elected plenary assembly.{{cite act |title=Ley 39/1978, de 17 de julio, de elecciones locales |type=Law |number=39 |language=es |date=17 July 1978 |url=https://www.boe.es/buscar/doc.php?id=BOE-A-1978-18636 |access-date=1 July 2020}}{{cite act |title=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 |type=Organic Law |number=6 |language=es |date=2 March 1983 |url=https://www.boe.es/buscar/doc.php?id=BOE-A-1983-6573 |access-date=1 July 2020}}{{cite act |title=Real Decreto-ley 20/1977, de 18 de marzo, sobre Normas Electorales |type=Royal Decree-Law |number=20 |language=es |date=18 March 1977 |url=https://www.boe.es/buscar/doc.php?id=BOE-A-1977-7445 |access-date=1 July 2020}} 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 Madrid 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. Councillors were allocated to municipal councils based on the following scale:

class="wikitable" style="text-align:left;"
width="110"| Population

! width="200"| 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
+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.

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.

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; 29 seats were required for an absolute majority in the City Council of Madrid.

class="wikitable collapsible collapsed" style="text-align:center; font-size:95%; line-height:16px;"
style="height:42px;"

! style="width:250px;" rowspan="2"| Polling firm/Commissioner

! style="width:125px;" rowspan="2"| Fieldwork date

! style="width:50px;" rowspan="2"| Sample size

! style="width:45px;" rowspan="2"| Turnout

! style="width:35px;"| File:Logo UCD.svg

! style="width:35px;"| File:Logo PSOE, 1976-2001.svg

! style="width:35px;"| File:Logotipopce.svg

! style="width:35px;"| File:Coalicion Popular logo.png

! style="width:35px;"| File:Centro Democrático y Social (corto).png

! style="width:35px;"| File:PDL logo.png

! style="width:30px;" rowspan="2"| Lead

style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)}};"|

! style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Madrilenian Socialist Federation}};"|

! style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Communist Party of Madrid}};"|

! style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|People's Coalition (Spain)}};"|

! style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Democratic and Social Centre (Spain)}};"|

! style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Liberal Democratic Party (Spain, 1982)}};"|

colspan="11" style="background:#A0A0A0"|
style="background:#EFEFEF;"

| 1983 municipal election

| 8 May 1983

| {{N/A}}

| 70.8

| –

| {{Party shading/PSOE}}| 48.4
{{font|size=75%|font=Verdana|text=30}}

| 6.8
{{font|size=75%|font=Verdana|text=4}}

| 37.8
{{font|size=75%|font=Verdana|text=23}}

| 3.0
{{font|size=75%|font=Verdana|text=0}}

| 2.6
{{font|size=75%|font=Verdana|text=0}}

| style="background:{{party color|Madrilenian Socialist Federation}}; color:white;"| 10.6

colspan="11" style="background:#A0A0A0"|
Sofemasa/El País{{cite web |title=El PSOE tendrá tres veces más votos que AP en las dos elecciones |url=http://elpais.com/diario/1983/05/01/espana/420588020_850215.html |language=es |work=El País |date=1 May 1983}}{{cite web |title=Ficha técnica de los sondeos |url=http://elpais.com/diario/1983/05/01/espana/420588007_850215.html |language=es |work=El País |date=1 May 1983}}

| 23–26 Apr 1983

|?

| 78.0

| –

| {{Party shading/PSOE}}| 56.7
{{font|size=75%|font=Verdana|text=37/39}}

| 8.5
{{font|size=75%|font=Verdana|text=4/5}}

| 20.9
{{font|size=75%|font=Verdana|text=15/17}}

| 3.9
{{font|size=75%|font=Verdana|text=0}}

| 1.1
{{font|size=75%|font=Verdana|text=0}}

| style="background:{{party color|Madrilenian Socialist Federation}}; color:white;"| 35.8

AP{{efn|Undecided and/or abstentionists excluded.}}{{cite web |title=Una encuesta de Alianza Popular les aproxima en votos al PSOE |url=https://prensahistorica.mcu.es/es/catalogo_imagenes/grupo.do?path=7155935&posicion=4&presentacion=pagina |language=es |work=Hoja del Lunes de Madrid |date=14 March 1983}}

| 14 Mar 1983

| 3,082

| 71

| –

| {{Party shading/PSOE}}| 44.8
{{font|size=75%|font=Verdana|text=27}}

| 6.1
{{font|size=75%|font=Verdana|text=3}}

| 43.8
{{font|size=75%|font=Verdana|text=27}}

| <5.0
{{font|size=75%|font=Verdana|text=0}}

| –

| style="background:{{party color|Madrilenian Socialist Federation}}; color:white;"| 1.0

style="background:#EFEFEF;"

| 1982 general election{{cite web |url=http://www.infoelectoral.mir.es/min/busquedaAvanzadaAction.html?vuelta=1&codTipoEleccion=2&codPeriodo=198210&codEstado=99&codComunidad=12&codProvincia=28&codMunicipio=79&codDistrito=0&codSeccion=0&codMesa=0 |title=Electoral Results Consultation. Congress. October 1982. Madrid Municipality |language=es |website=Ministry of the Interior |access-date=12 November 2017}}

| 28 Oct 1982

| {{N/A}}

| 86.9

| 3.5
{{font|size=75%|font=Verdana|text=(0)}}

| {{Party shading/PSOE}}| 48.1
{{font|size=75%|font=Verdana|text=(33)}}

| 4.5
{{font|size=75%|font=Verdana|text=(0)}}

| 35.7{{efn|name="AP–PDP"|Results for AP–PDP.}}
{{font|size=75%|font=Verdana|text=(24)}}

| 4.7
{{font|size=75%|font=Verdana|text=(0)}}

| –

| style="background:{{party color|Madrilenian Socialist Federation}}; color:white;"| 12.4

colspan="11" style="background:#A0A0A0"|
style="background:#EFEFEF;"

| 1979 municipal election

| 3 Apr 1979

| {{N/A}}

| 66.0

| {{Party shading/UCD}}| 40.3
{{font|size=75%|font=Verdana|text=25}}

| 39.5
{{font|size=75%|font=Verdana|text=25}}

| 14.7
{{font|size=75%|font=Verdana|text=9}}

| –

| –

| –

| style="background:{{party color|Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)}}; color:white;"| 0.8

colspan="11" style="background:#A0A0A0"|

=Voting preferences=

The table below lists raw, unweighted voting preferences.

class="wikitable collapsible collapsed" style="text-align:center; font-size:90%; line-height:14px;"
style="height:42px;"

! style="width:250px;" rowspan="2"| Polling firm/Commissioner

! style="width:125px;" rowspan="2"| Fieldwork date

! style="width:50px;" rowspan="2"| Sample size

! style="width:35px;"| File:Logo UCD.svg

! style="width:35px;"| File:Logo PSOE, 1976-2001.svg

! style="width:35px;"| File:Logotipopce.svg

! style="width:35px;"| File:Coalicion Popular logo.png

! style="width:35px;"| File:Centro Democrático y Social (corto).png

! style="width:35px;"| File:PDL logo.png

! style="width:35px;" rowspan="2"| {{Qmark}}

! style="width:35px;" rowspan="2"| {{cross}}

! style="width:30px;" rowspan="2"| Lead

style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)}};"|

! style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Madrilenian Socialist Federation}};"|

! style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Communist Party of Madrid}};"|

! style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|People's Coalition (Spain)}};"|

! style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Democratic and Social Centre (Spain)}};"|

! style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Liberal Democratic Party (Spain, 1982)}};"|

colspan="12" style="background:#A0A0A0"|
style="background:#EFEFEF;"

| 1983 municipal election

| 8 May 1983

| {{N/A}}

| –

| {{Party shading/PSOE}}| 33.7

| 4.7

| 26.3

| 2.1

| 1.8

| {{N/A}}

| 30.6

| style="background:{{party color|Madrilenian Socialist Federation}}; color:white;"| 7.4

colspan="12" style="background:#A0A0A0"|
Alef–Emopública/CIS{{cite web |title=Preelectoral municipales y autonómicas 1983 (III). Madrid capital (Estudio nº 1351. Marzo 1983) |url=https://www.cis.es/cis/export/sites/default/-Archivos/Marginales/1340_1359/1351/es1351mar_1MADRID.pdf |language=es |work=CIS |date=25 March 1983}}

| 17–25 Mar 1983

| 498

| –

| {{Party shading/PSOE}}| 45.7

| 4.2

| 8.7

| 0.8

| 0.2

| 32.6

| 6.8

| style="background:{{party color|Madrilenian Socialist Federation}}; color:white;"| 37.0

style="background:#EFEFEF;"

| 1982 general election

| 28 Oct 1982

| {{N/A}}

| 3.0

| {{Party shading/PSOE}}| 41.1

| 3.8

| 30.5{{efn|name="AP–PDP"}}

| 4.1

| –

| {{N/A}}

| 13.1

| style="background:{{party color|Madrilenian Socialist Federation}}; color:white;"| 10.6

colspan="12" style="background:#A0A0A0"|
style="background:#EFEFEF;"

| 1979 municipal election

| 3 Apr 1979

| {{N/A}}

| {{Party shading/UCD}}| 26.6

| 26.1

| 9.7

| –

| –

| –

| {{N/A}}

| 34.0

| style="background:{{party color|Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)}}; color:white;"| 0.5

colspan="12" style="background:#A0A0A0"|

Results

class="wikitable" style="text-align:right;"

|+ ← Summary of the 8 May 1983 City Council of Madrid election results →

colspan="7"| File:MadridCouncilDiagram1983.svg
style="text-align:left;" rowspan="2" colspan="2" width="525"| Parties and alliances

! colspan="3"| Popular vote

! colspan="2"| Seats

width="75"| Votes

! width="45"| %

! width="45"| ±pp

! width="35"| Total

! width="35"| +/−

width="1" style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Madrilenian Socialist Federation}}"|

| align="left"| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)

| 808,350

48.44style="color:green;"| +8.95

| 30

style="color:green;"| +5
style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|People's Coalition (Spain)}}"|

| align="left"| People's Coalition (AP–PDP–UL)

| 631,183

37.82New

| 23

style="color:green;"| +23
style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Communist Party of Madrid}}"|

| align="left"| Communist Party of Spain (PCE)

| 113,112

6.78style="color:red;"| –7.91

| 4

style="color:red;"| –5
colspan="7" bgcolor="#C0C0C0"|
style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Democratic and Social Centre (Spain)}}"|

| align="left"| Democratic and Social Centre (CDS)

| 50,824

3.05New

| 0

±0
style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Liberal Democratic Party (Spain, 1982)}}"|

| align="left"| Liberal Democratic Party (PDL)

| 44,159

2.65New

| 0

±0
style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Workers' Socialist Party (Spain)}}"|

| align="left"| Workers' Socialist Party (PST)

| 5,721

0.34New

| 0

±0
style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Spanish Communist Workers' Party}}"|

| align="left"| Spanish Communist Workers' Party (PCOE)

| 3,284

0.20style="color:red;"| –0.13

| 0

±0
style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Natural Culture}}"|

| align="left"| Natural Culture (CN)

| 2,281

0.14New

| 0

±0
style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Revolutionary Communist League (Spain)}}"|

| align="left"| Revolutionary Communist League (LCR)

| 1,543

0.09style="color:red;"| –0.02

| 0

±0
style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Communist Party of Spain (Marxist–Leninist) (historical)}}"|

| align="left"| Popular Struggle Coalition (CLP)

| 859

0.05New

| 0

±0
style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)}}"|

| align="left"| Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD)

| n/a

n/astyle="color:red;"| –40.29

| 0

style="color:red;"| –25
align="left" colspan="2"| Blank ballots

| 7,402

0.44style="color:green;"| +0.44

| bgcolor="#E9E9E9" colspan="2"|

colspan="7" bgcolor="#E9E9E9"|
style="font-weight:bold;"

| align="left" colspan="2"| Total

| 1,668,718

bgcolor="#E9E9E9" colspan="2"|

| 57

style="color:red;"| –2
colspan="7" bgcolor="#E9E9E9"|
align="left" colspan="2"| Valid votes

| 1,668,718

99.03style="color:red;"| –0.97

| bgcolor="#E9E9E9" colspan="2" rowspan="5"|

align="left" colspan="2"| Invalid votes

| 16,397

0.97style="color:green;"| +0.97
style="font-weight:bold;"

| align="left" colspan="2"| Votes cast / turnout

| 1,685,115

70.78style="color:green;"| +4.80
align="left" colspan="2"| Abstentions

| 695,731

29.22style="color:red;"| –4.80
style="font-weight:bold;"

| align="left" colspan="2"| Registered voters

| 2,380,846

bgcolor="#E9E9E9" colspan="2"|
colspan="7" bgcolor="#E9E9E9"|
align="left" colspan="7"| Sources{{cite web |url=http://www.madrid.es/portales/munimadrid/es/Inicio/El-Ayuntamiento/Estadistica/Publicaciones/Ayuntamiento-de-Madrid?vgnextfmt=default&vgnextoid=e2fecf3088c48310VgnVCM2000000c205a0aRCRD&vgnextchannel=86cfe3e2be73a210VgnVCM1000000b205a0aRCRD |title=City Council of Madrid. Elections |language=es |website=www.madrid.es |publisher=City Council of Madrid |access-date=5 December 2017}}{{cite web |url=http://www.infoelectoral.mir.es/min/busquedaAvanzadaAction.html?vuelta=1&codTipoEleccion=4&codPeriodo=198305&codEstado=99&codComunidad=12&codProvincia=28&codMunicipio=79&codDistrito=0&codSeccion=0&codMesa=0 |title=Electoral Results Consultation. Municipal. May 1983. Madrid Municipality |language=es |website=Ministry of the Interior |access-date=12 November 2017}}{{cite web |url=http://www.historiaelectoral.com/mmadrid.html |title=Elecciones Municipales en Madrid (1979 - 2015) |language=es |website=Historia Electoral.com |access-date=30 September 2017}}

{{bar box

|title=Popular vote

|titlebar=#ddd

|width=550px

|barwidth=500px

|bars=

{{bar percent|PSOE|{{party color|Madrilenian Socialist Federation}}|48.44}}

{{bar percent|AP–PDP–UL|{{party color|People's Coalition (Spain)}}|37.82}}

{{bar percent|PCE|{{party color|Communist Party of Madrid}}|6.78}}

{{bar percent|CDS|{{party color|Democratic and Social Centre (Spain)}}|3.05}}

{{bar percent|PDL|{{party color|Liberal Democratic Party (Spain, 1982)}}|2.65}}

{{bar percent|Others|#777777|0.82}}

{{bar percent|Blank ballots|#DDDDDD|0.44}}

}}

{{bar box

|title=Seats

|titlebar=#ddd

|width=550px

|barwidth=500px

|bars=

{{bar percent|PSOE|{{party color|Madrilenian Socialist Federation}}|52.63}}

{{bar percent|AP–PDP–UL|{{party color|People's Coalition (Spain)}}|40.35}}

{{bar percent|PCE|{{party color|Communist Party of Madrid}}|7.02}}

}}

Notes

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References

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