1983 Barcelona City Council election
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All 43 seats in the City Council of Barcelona 22 seats needed for a majority | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Registered | 1,359,589 ![]() | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Turnout | 916,684 (67.4%)![]() | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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.
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. Voting for the local assembly was on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprised all nationals over eighteen, registered in the municipality of Barcelona 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 |
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<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]
Opinion polls
The table below lists voting intention estimates 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 given poll. When available, seat projections are also displayed below the voting estimates in a smaller font. 22 seats were required for an absolute majority in the City Council of Barcelona.
Polling firm/Commissioner | Fieldwork date | Sample size | Turnout | ![]() |
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Lead |
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style="background:Template:Socialists' Party of Catalonia/meta/color;"| | style="background:Template:Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia/meta/color;"| | style="background:Template:Convergence and Union/meta/color;"| | style="background:Template:Centrists of Catalonia/meta/color;"| | style="background:Template:Republican Left of Catalonia/meta/color;"| | style="background:Template:People's Coalition (Spain)/meta/color;"| | |||||
1983 municipal election | 8 May 1983 | — | 67.4 | 45.8 21 |
6.9 3 |
27.4 13 |
– | 3.9 0 |
13.0 6 |
style="background:Template:Socialists' Party of Catalonia/meta/color; color:white;"| 18.4 |
Sofemasa/El País[p 1][p 2] | 23–26 Apr 1983 | ? | ? | 43.7 20/21 |
8.9 4/5 |
22.1 11/12 |
– | 5.6 2 |
11.0 5 |
style="background:Template:Socialists' Party of Catalonia/meta/color; color:white;"| 21.6 |
1982 general election[4] | 28 Oct 1982 | — | 81.0 | 40.9 22 |
4.5 0 |
23.3 12 |
1.6 0 |
4.5 0 |
18.6 9 |
style="background:Template:Socialists' Party of Catalonia/meta/color; color:white;"| 17.6 |
1980 regional election[5] | 20 Mar 1980 | — | 57.9 | 20.9 10 |
16.1 8 |
28.7 15 |
10.2 5 |
10.8 5 |
3.9[b] 0 |
style="background:Template:Convergence and Union/meta/color; color:white;"| 7.8 |
1979 municipal election | 3 Apr 1979 | — | 54.3 | 34.0 16 |
18.9 9 |
18.6 8 |
16.7 8 |
5.2 2 |
3.0[c] 0 |
style="background:Template:Socialists' Party of Catalonia/meta/color; color:white;"| 15.1 |
Results
Notes
- ^ Data for CD in the 1979 election.
- ^ Result for Catalan Solidarity.
- ^ Result for Democratic Coalition.
References
- Opinion poll sources
- ^ "El PSC-PSOE gana en Cataluña, y en Barcelona con coalición". El País (in Spanish). 1 May 1983.
- ^ "Ficha técnica de los sondeos". El País (in Spanish). 1 May 1983.
- Other
- ^ a b c Electoral Rules Decree of 1977. Official State Gazette (Royal Decree-Law 20) (in Spanish). 18 March 1977. Retrieved 27 December 2016.
- ^ a b c Local Elections Law of 1978. Official State Gazette (Law) (in Spanish). 17 July 1978. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
- ^ a b c Local Elections Law Reform of 1983. Official State Gazette (Organic Law 6) (in Spanish). 2 March 1983. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
- ^ "Electoral Results Consultation. Congress. October 1982. Barcelona Municipality". www.infoelectoral.mir.es (in Spanish). Ministry of the Interior. Retrieved 12 November 2017.
- ^ "Election Results. Parliament of Catalonia Election 1980". gencat.cat (in Catalan). Generalitat of Catalonia. Retrieved 12 November 2017.
- ^ "Election Results. Municipal Elections 1983. Barcelona". gencat.cat (in Catalan). Generalitat of Catalonia. Retrieved 12 November 2017.
- ^ "Electoral Results Consultation. Municipal. May 1983. Barcelona Municipality". www.infoelectoral.mir.es (in Spanish). Ministry of the Interior. Retrieved 12 November 2017.
- ^ "Municipal elections in Barcelona since 1979". historiaelectoral.com (in Spanish). Electoral History. Retrieved 30 September 2017.