Seville City Council election, 1983

Seville City Council election, 1983
8 May 1983
All 31 seats in the City Council of Seville
16 seats needed for a majority
Registered 454,851 6.3%
Turnout 274,080 (60.3%)
3.3 pp

  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Manuel del Valle — —
Party PSOE–A AP–PDP–UL PCE
Leader since 1983 — —
Last election 8 seats, 24.8% 0 seats, 1.2%[lower-alpha 1] 6 seats, 18.4%
Seats won 19 10 2
Seat change 11 10 4
Popular vote 153,002 80,542 24,099
Percentage 56.2% 29.6% 8.9%
Swing 31.4 pp 28.4 pp 9.5 pp
Mayor before election

Luis Uruñuela
PSA–PA

 Elected Mayor

Manuel del Valle
PSOE–A

The 1983 Seville City Council election, also the 1983 Seville municipal election, was held on Sunday, 8 May 1983, to elect the 2nd City Council of the municipality of Seville. All 31 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.

Electoral system

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

Local councillors were elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with a threshold of 5 percent of valid votes—which included blank ballots—being applied. Parties not reaching the threshold were not taken into consideration for seat distribution.[1][2][3] Councillors were allocated to municipal councils based on the following scale:

Population 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 case of a tie, the eldest would be elected.[2][3]

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. 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.[1]

Results

← Summary of the 8 May 1983 City Council of Seville election results →
Parties and coalitions Popular vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Total +/−
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party of Andalusia (PSOE–A) 153,00256.22+31.44 19+11
People's Coalition (AP–PDP–UL)1 80,54229.60+28.43 10+10
Communist Party of Spain (PCE) 24,0998.86–9.57 2–4
Socialist Party of Andalusia–Andalusian Party (PSA–PA) 8,0802.97–20.51 0–8
Democratic and Social Centre (CDS) 3,1911.17New 0±0
Spanish Communist Workers' Party (PCOE) 1,4600.54–0.11 0±0
United Candidacy of Workers (CUT) 5400.20New 0±0
Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) n/an/a–27.09 0–9
Blank ballots 1,2210.45+0.32
Total 272,135 31±0
Valid votes 272,13599.29–0.21
Invalid votes 1,9450.71+0.21
Votes cast / turnout 274,08060.26+3.28
Abstentions 180,77139.74–3.28
Registered voters 454,851
Sources[4][5][6]
Popular vote
PSOE–A
 
 56.22%
AP–PDP–UL
 
 29.60%
PCE
 
 8.86%
PSA–PA
 
 2.97%
CDS
 
 1.17%
Others
 
 0.73%
Blank ballots
 
 0.45%
Seats
PSOE–A
 
 61.29%
AP–PDP–UL
 
 32.26%
PCE
 
 6.45%

Notes

  1. ↑ Data for CD in the 1979 election.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Electoral Rules Decree of 1977". Royal Decree-Law No. 20 of 18 March 1977. Official State Gazette (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 December 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 "Local Elections Law of 1978". Law of 17 July 1978. Official State Gazette (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 August 2017.
  3. 1 2 3 "Local Elections Law Reform of 1983". Organic Law No. 6 of 2 March 1983. Official State Gazette (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 August 2017.
  4. ↑ "Statistic Yearbook of the city of Seville. 1999". sevilla.org (in Spanish). City Council of Seville. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
  5. ↑ "Electoral Results Consultation. Municipal. May 1983. Seville Municipality". infoelectoral.mir.es (in Spanish). Ministry of the Interior. Retrieved 12 November 2017.
  6. ↑ "Municipal elections in Seville since 1979". historiaelectoral.com (in Spanish). Electoral History. Retrieved 30 September 2017.
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