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Spanish local elections, 1979
← 1976 3 April 1979 1983 →
67,505 councillors in 7,870 municipal councils
1,152 seats in 43 provincial deputations
Registered26,591,013
Turnout16,621,868 (62.5%)
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Adolfo Suárez Felipe González Santiago Carrillo
Party UCD PSOE–PSC PCE–PSUC
Leader since 3 May 1977 13 October 1974 3 July 1960
Seats won 29,288 12,069 3,725
Popular vote 5,067,634 4,621,672 2,142,049
Percentage 30.9% 28.2% 13.0%
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Jordi Pujol Manuel Fraga Carlos Garaikoetxea
Party CiU CD EAJ/PNV
Leader since 19 September 1978 9 October 1976 1977
Seats won 1,782 2,383 1,093
Popular vote 509,128 504,780 361,160
Percentage 3.1% 3.1% 2.2%
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.[1][2][3] 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.[4][5]

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 a threshold of 5 percent of valid votes—which included blank ballots—being applied in each local council. Parties not reaching the threshold were not taken into consideration for seat distribution. 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

Additionally, municipalities below 25 inhabitants, as well as those having traditionally adopted it, were to be organized through the open council system (Spanish: régimen de concejo abierto), in which electors would directly vote for the local major.[6]

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.[7] 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.[6]

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 (Catalan: 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:

Population 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.[6]

Municipal elections

Overall

Councillor share for different parties in the elections.

  UCD (43.39%)
  PSOE–PSC (17.88%)
  PCE–PSUC (5.51%)
  CD (3.53%)
  CiU (2.64%)
  EAJ/PNV (1.62%)
  PAR (0.41%)
  HB (0.40%)
  PSA–PA (0.38%)
  BNPG (0.38%)
  PTE (0.34%)
  ERC–FNC (0.31%)
  Other (23.21%)
Summary of the 3 April 1979 municipal election results in Spain →
Parties and coalitions Popular vote Councillors
Votes % ±pp Total +/−
width="1" bgcolor="Template:Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)/meta/color"| Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) 5,067,634 30.87 n/a 29,288 n/a
rowspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party/meta/color"| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party and allies (PSOE–PSC) 4,621,672 28.15 n/a 12,069 n/a
width="1" bgcolor="Template:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party/meta/color"| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) 3,901,507 23.77 n/a 11,141 n/a
bgcolor="Template:Socialists' Party of Catalonia/meta/color"| Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC–PSOE) 720,165 4.39 n/a 928 n/a
rowspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Communist Party of Spain/meta/color"| Communist Party of Spain and allies (PCE–PSUC) 2,142,049 13.05 n/a 3,725 n/a
bgcolor="Template:Communist Party of Spain/meta/color"| Communist Party of Spain (PCE) 1,598,893 9.74 n/a 3,176 n/a
bgcolor="Template:Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia/meta/color"| Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSUC) 543,156 3.31 n/a 549 n/a
bgcolor="Template:Convergence and Union/meta/color"| Convergence and Union (CiU) 509,128 3.10 n/a 1,782 n/a
bgcolor="Template:Democratic Coalition (Spain)/meta/color"| Democratic Coalition (CD) 504,780 3.07 n/a 2,383 n/a
bgcolor="Template:Basque Nationalist Party/meta/color"| Basque Nationalist Party (EAJ/PNV) 361,160 2.20 n/a 1,093 n/a
bgcolor="Template:Andalusian Party/meta/color"| Socialist Party of Andalusia–Andalusian Party (PSA–PA) 245,507 1.50 n/a 259 n/a
bgcolor="Template:Herri Batasuna/meta/color"| Popular Unity (HB) 164,516 1.00 n/a 267 n/a
bgcolor="Template:Party of Labour of Spain/meta/color"| Party of Labour of Spain (PTE) 148,083 0.90 n/a 229 n/a
bgcolor="Template:Workers' Revolutionary Organization (Spain)/meta/color"| Workers' Revolutionary Organization (ORT) 114,539 0.70 n/a 107 n/a
bgcolor="Template:Republican Left of Catalonia/meta/color"| Republican Left of Catalonia–National Front of Catalonia (ERC–FNC) 103,547 0.63 n/a 210 n/a
bgcolor="Template:Communist Movement (Spain)/meta/color"| Communist Movement–Organization of Communist Left (MC–OIC) 86,792 0.53 n/a 59 n/a
bgcolor="Template:Galician National-Popular Bloc/meta/color"| Galician National-Popular Bloc (BNPG) 78,216 0.48 n/a 258 n/a
bgcolor="Template:Galician Unity/meta/color"| Galician Unity (PG–POG–PSG) 69,060 0.42 n/a 141 n/a
bgcolor="Template:National Union (Spain)/meta/color"| National Union (UN) 61,889 0.38 n/a 122 n/a
bgcolor="Template:Euskadiko Ezkerra/meta/color"| Basque Country Left (EE) 59,332 0.36 n/a 84 n/a
bgcolor="Template:Regionalist Aragonese Party/meta/color"| Regionalist Aragonese Party (PAR) 58,661 0.36 n/a 276 n/a
bgcolor="Template:Canarian People's Union/meta/color"| Canarian People's Union (UPC) 55,779 0.34 n/a 30 n/a
bgcolor="Template:Socialist Action Party (Spain)/meta/color"| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (historical) (PSOEh) 26,585 0.16 n/a 45 n/a
bgcolor="Template:Regionalist Party of Cantabria/meta/color"| Regionalist Party of Cantabria (PRC) 23,870 0.15 n/a 81 n/a
bgcolor="Template:Revolutionary Communist League (Spain)/meta/color"| Revolutionary Communist League (LCR) 18,390 0.11 n/a 7 n/a
bgcolor="Template:Valencian Regional Union/meta/color"| Valencian Regional Union (URV) 18,015 0.11 n/a 2 n/a
bgcolor="Template:Cantonal Party/meta/color"| Cantonal Party (PCAN) 14,753 0.09 n/a 7 n/a
bgcolor="Template:Communist Collective of Catalonia/meta/color"| Communists of Catalonia (ComC) 14,529 0.09 n/a 0 n/a
Independent Councillors for La Rioja (CIR) 13,580 0.08 n/a 147 n/a
bgcolor="Template:Navarrese People's Union/meta/color"| Navarrese People's Union (UPN) 12,305 0.07 n/a 10 n/a
bgcolor="Template:Socialist Party of National Liberation/meta/color"| Socialist Party of National Liberation (PSAN) 10,907 0.07 n/a 5 n/a
bgcolor="Template:Nationalist Party of the Valencian Country/meta/color"| Nationalist Party of the Valencian Country (PNPV) 10,773 0.07 n/a 12 n/a
bgcolor="Template:Communist Unification of Spain/meta/color"| Communist Unification of Spain (UCE) 9,908 0.06 n/a 4 n/a
Candidates for Democracy (CPLD) 9,778 0.06 n/a 77 n/a
bgcolor="Template:Carlist Party (1970)/meta/color"| Carlist Party (PC) 9,548 0.06 n/a 9 n/a
Electoral Group of Ceuta–Democratic Local Council (AECAD) 8,855 0.05 n/a 12 n/a
Free Electoral Group of Tenerife (ALET) 8,815 0.05 n/a 4 n/a
bgcolor="Template:Socialist Party of Majorca/meta/color"| Socialist Party of Majorca (PSM) 8,123 0.05 n/a 11 n/a
bgcolor="Template:Republican Left (Spain, 1977)/meta/color"| Republican Left (IR) 7,661 0.05 n/a 5 n/a
Leonese Peasants Electoral Group (AECL) 7,496 0.05 n/a 112 n/a
bgcolor="Template:Spanish Communist Workers' Party/meta/color"| Spanish Communist Workers' Party (PCOE) 7,400 0.05 n/a 1 n/a
Others 1,702,022 10.37 n/a 14,572 n/a
Blank ballots 20,038 0.12 n/a
Total 16,415,695 100.00 67,505 n/a
Valid votes 16,415,695 98.76 n/a
Invalid votes 206,173 1.24 n/a
Votes cast / turnout 16,621,868 62.51 n/a
Abstentions 9,969,145 37.49 n/a
Registered voters 26,591,013
Sources[8][9]
Popular vote
UCD
 
 30.87%
PSOE–PSC
 
 28.15%
PCE–PSUC
 
 13.05%
CiU
 
 3.10%
CD
 
 3.07%
EAJ/PNV
 
 2.20%
PSA–PA
 
 1.50%
HB
 
 1.00%
PTE
 
 0.90%
ORT
 
 0.70%
ERC–FNC
 
 0.63%
MC–OIC
 
 0.53%
Others
 
 14.17%
Blank ballots
 
 0.12%

City control

The following table lists party control in provincial capitals, as well as in municipalities above or around 75,000.[10]

Municipality Population New control
A Coruña 224,289 width="1" bgcolor="Template:Galician Unity/meta/color"| Galician Unity (PG–POG–PSG) (UCD in 1979)
Albacete 105,408 bgcolor="Template:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party/meta/color"| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)
Alcalá de Henares 110,102 bgcolor="Template:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party/meta/color"| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)
Alcorcón 119,300 bgcolor="Template:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party/meta/color"| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)
Algeciras 92,273 bgcolor="Template:Communist Party of Spain/meta/color"| Communist Party of Spain (PCE)
Alicante 232,019 bgcolor="Template:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party/meta/color"| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)
Almería 133,844 bgcolor="Template:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party/meta/color"| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)
Ávila 37,302 bgcolor="Template:Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)/meta/color"| Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD)
Avilés 89,285 bgcolor="Template:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party/meta/color"| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)
Badajoz 110,290 bgcolor="Template:Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)/meta/color"| Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD)
Badalona 229,780 bgcolor="Template:Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia/meta/color"| Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSUC)
Barakaldo 122,540 bgcolor="Template:Basque Nationalist Party/meta/color"| Basque Nationalist Party (EAJ/PNV)
Barcelona 1,754,579 bgcolor="Template:Socialists' Party of Catalonia/meta/color"| Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC–PSOE)
Bilbao 450,661 bgcolor="Template:Basque Nationalist Party/meta/color"| Basque Nationalist Party (EAJ/PNV)
Burgos 145,473 bgcolor="Template:Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)/meta/color"| Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD)
Cáceres 63,181 bgcolor="Template:Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)/meta/color"| Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD)
Cádiz 153,327 bgcolor="Template:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party/meta/color"| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)
Cartagena 162,630 bgcolor="Template:Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)/meta/color"| Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD)
Castellón de la Plana 115,522 bgcolor="Template:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party/meta/color"| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)
Ciudad Real 48,075 bgcolor="Template:Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)/meta/color"| Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD)
Córdoba 269,998 bgcolor="Template:Communist Party of Spain/meta/color"| Communist Party of Spain (PCE)
Cornellà de Llobregat 91,563 bgcolor="Template:Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia/meta/color"| Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSUC)
Cuenca 38,601 bgcolor="Template:Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)/meta/color"| Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD)
Elche 160,071 bgcolor="Template:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party/meta/color"| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)
Ferrol 88,161 bgcolor="Template:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party/meta/color"| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)
Getafe 124,601 bgcolor="Template:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party/meta/color"| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)
Gijón 253,294 bgcolor="Template:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party/meta/color"| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)
Girona 83,929 bgcolor="Template:Socialists' Party of Catalonia/meta/color"| Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC–PSOE)
Granada 225,034 bgcolor="Template:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party/meta/color"| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)
Guadalajara 47,758 bgcolor="Template:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party/meta/color"| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)
Huelva 122,494 bgcolor="Template:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party/meta/color"| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)
Huesca 38,095 bgcolor="Template:Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)/meta/color"| Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD)
Jaén 88,968 bgcolor="Template:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party/meta/color"| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)
Jerez de la Frontera 180,098 bgcolor="Template:Andalusian Party/meta/color"| Socialist Party of Andalusia–Andalusian Party (PSA–PA)
L'Hospitalet de Llobregat 289,747 bgcolor="Template:Socialists' Party of Catalonia/meta/color"| Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC–PSOE)
Las Palmas 345,925 bgcolor="Template:Canarian People's Union/meta/color"| Canarian People's Union (UPC) (PSOE in 1980; UCD in 1982)
Leganés 151,235 bgcolor="Template:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party/meta/color"| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)
León 120,761 bgcolor="Template:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party/meta/color"| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) (UCD in 1979)
Lleida 106,190 bgcolor="Template:Socialists' Party of Catalonia/meta/color"| Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC–PSOE)
Logroño 103,097 bgcolor="Template:Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)/meta/color"| Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD)
Lugo 71,574 bgcolor="Template:Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)/meta/color"| Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD)
Madrid 3,355,720 bgcolor="Template:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party/meta/color"| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)
Málaga 454,882 bgcolor="Template:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party/meta/color"| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)
Mataró 96,942 bgcolor="Template:Socialists' Party of Catalonia/meta/color"| Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC–PSOE)
Móstoles 101,266 bgcolor="Template:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party/meta/color"| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)
Murcia 283,552 bgcolor="Template:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party/meta/color"| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)
Ourense 88,029 bgcolor="Template:Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)/meta/color"| Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD)
Oviedo 179,866 bgcolor="Template:Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)/meta/color"| Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD)
Palencia 65,896 bgcolor="Template:Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)/meta/color"| Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD)
Palma 283,113 bgcolor="Template:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party/meta/color"| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)
Pamplona 173,255 bgcolor="Template:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party/meta/color"| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)
Pontevedra 63,863 bgcolor="Template:Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)/meta/color"| Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD)
Reus 82,407 bgcolor="Template:Socialists' Party of Catalonia/meta/color"| Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC–PSOE)
Sabadell 187,247 bgcolor="Template:Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia/meta/color"| Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSUC)
Salamanca 141,474 bgcolor="Template:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party/meta/color"| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)
San Cristóbal de La Laguna 112,472 bgcolor="Template:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party/meta/color"| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)
San Sebastián 174,818 bgcolor="Template:Basque Nationalist Party/meta/color"| Basque Nationalist Party (EAJ/PNV)
Santa Coloma de Gramenet 140,613 bgcolor="Template:Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia/meta/color"| Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSUC)
Santa Cruz de Tenerife 183,583 bgcolor="Template:Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)/meta/color"| Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD)
Santander 174,809 bgcolor="Template:Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)/meta/color"| Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD)
Santiago de Compostela 81,536 bgcolor="Template:Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)/meta/color"| Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) (PDL in 1982)
Segovia 48,623 bgcolor="Template:Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)/meta/color"| Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD)
Seville 622,532 bgcolor="Template:Andalusian Party/meta/color"| Socialist Party of Andalusia–Andalusian Party (PSA–PA)
Soria 28,845 bgcolor="Template:Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)/meta/color"| Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD)
Tarragona 108,131 bgcolor="Template:Socialists' Party of Catalonia/meta/color"| Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC–PSOE)
Terrassa 157,442 bgcolor="Template:Socialists' Party of Catalonia/meta/color"| Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC–PSOE)
Teruel 24,590 bgcolor="Template:Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)/meta/color"| Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD)
Toledo 54,999 bgcolor="Template:Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)/meta/color"| Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD)
Valencia 737,129 bgcolor="Template:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party/meta/color"| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)
Valladolid 308,523 bgcolor="Template:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party/meta/color"| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)
Vigo 254,051 bgcolor="Template:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party/meta/color"| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)
Vitoria-Gasteiz 181,216 bgcolor="Template:Basque Nationalist Party/meta/color"| Basque Nationalist Party (EAJ/PNV)
Zamora 54,819 bgcolor="Template:Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)/meta/color"| Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD)
Zaragoza 555,424 bgcolor="Template:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party/meta/color"| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)

Provincial deputations

Summary

Provincial deputy share for different parties in the elections.

  UCD (62.24%)
  PSOE–PSC (24.22%)
  PCE–PSUC (5.38%)
  CiU (3.91%)
  CD (2.52%)
  PAR (0.35%)
  BNPG (0.26%)
  PSA–PA (0.17%)
  PG–POG–PSG (0.17%)
  PTE (0.09%)
  PRC (0.09%)
  PRE (0.09%)
  Other (0.51%)
Summary of the 3 April 1979 provincial deputations election results →
Parties and coalitions Seats
Total +/−
width="1" bgcolor="Template:Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)/meta/color"| Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) 717 n/a
bgcolor="Template:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party/meta/color"| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party and allies (PSOE–PSC) 279 n/a
bgcolor="Template:Communist Party of Spain/meta/color"| Communist Party of Spain and allies (PCE–PSUC) 62 n/a
bgcolor="Template:Convergence and Union/meta/color"| Convergence and Union (CiU) 45 n/a
bgcolor="Template:Democratic Coalition (Spain)/meta/color"| Democratic Coalition (CD) 29 n/a
bgcolor="Template:Regionalist Aragonese Party/meta/color"| Regionalist Aragonese Party (PAR) 4 n/a
bgcolor="Template:Galician National-Popular Bloc/meta/color"| Galician National-Popular Bloc (BNPG) 3 n/a
bgcolor="Template:Andalusian Party/meta/color"| Socialist Party of Andalusia–Andalusian Party (PSA–PA) 2 n/a
bgcolor="Template:Galician Unity/meta/color"| Galician Unity (PG–POG–PSG) 2 n/a
bgcolor="Template:Party of Labour of Spain/meta/color"| Party of Labour of Spain (PTE) 1 n/a
bgcolor="Template:Regionalist Party of Cantabria/meta/color"| Regionalist Party of Cantabria (PRC) 1 n/a
bgcolor="Template:Spanish Ruralist Party/meta/color"| Spanish Ruralist Party (PRE) 1 n/a
Others 6 n/a
Total 1,152 n/a
Sources[3]

Deputation control

The following table lists party control in provincial deputations.[3]

Province New control
A Coruña width="1" bgcolor="Template:Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)/meta/color"| Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD)
Albacete bgcolor="Template:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party/meta/color"| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)
Alicante bgcolor="Template:Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)/meta/color"| Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD)
Almería bgcolor="Template:Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)/meta/color"| Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD)
Ávila bgcolor="Template:Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)/meta/color"| Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD)
Badajoz bgcolor="Template:Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)/meta/color"| Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD)
Barcelona bgcolor="Template:Republican Left of Catalonia/meta/color"| Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) (PSC–PSOE in 1980)
Burgos bgcolor="Template:Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)/meta/color"| Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD)
Cáceres bgcolor="Template:Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)/meta/color"| Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD)
Cádiz bgcolor="Template:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party/meta/color"| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)
Castellón bgcolor="Template:Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)/meta/color"| Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD)
Ciudad Real bgcolor="Template:Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)/meta/color"| Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD)
Córdoba bgcolor="Template:Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)/meta/color"| Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD)
Cuenca bgcolor="Template:Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)/meta/color"| Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD)
Girona bgcolor="Template:Convergence and Union/meta/color"| Convergence and Union (CiU)
Granada bgcolor="Template:Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)/meta/color"| Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD)
Guadalajara bgcolor="Template:Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)/meta/color"| Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD)
Huelva bgcolor="Template:Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)/meta/color"| Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD)
Huesca bgcolor="Template:Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)/meta/color"| Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD)
Jaén bgcolor="Template:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party/meta/color"| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)
León bgcolor="Template:Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)/meta/color"| Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD)
Lleida bgcolor="Template:Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)/meta/color"| Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD)
Logroño bgcolor="Template:Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)/meta/color"| Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD)
Lugo bgcolor="Template:Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)/meta/color"| Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD)
Málaga bgcolor="Template:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party/meta/color"| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)
Madrid bgcolor="Template:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party/meta/color"| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)
Murcia bgcolor="Template:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party/meta/color"| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)
Ourense bgcolor="Template:Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)/meta/color"| Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD)
Oviedo bgcolor="Template:Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)/meta/color"| Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD)
Palencia bgcolor="Template:Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)/meta/color"| Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD)
Pontevedra bgcolor="Template:Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)/meta/color"| Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD)
Salamanca bgcolor="Template:Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)/meta/color"| Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD)
Santander bgcolor="Template:Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)/meta/color"| Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD)
Segovia bgcolor="Template:Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)/meta/color"| Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD)
Seville bgcolor="Template:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party/meta/color"| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)
Soria bgcolor="Template:Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)/meta/color"| Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD)
Tarragona bgcolor="Template:Convergence and Union/meta/color"| Convergence and Union (CiU)
Teruel bgcolor="Template:Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)/meta/color"| Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD)
Toledo bgcolor="Template:Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)/meta/color"| Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD)
Valencia bgcolor="Template:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party/meta/color"| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)
Valladolid bgcolor="Template:Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)/meta/color"| Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD)
Zamora bgcolor="Template:Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)/meta/color"| Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD)
Zaragoza bgcolor="Template:Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)/meta/color"| Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD)

References

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  7. ^ Electoral Rules Decree of 1977. Official State Gazette (Royal Decree-Law 20) (in Spanish). 18 March 1977. Retrieved 27 December 2016.
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  9. ^ "Municipal elections (overall results 1979-2011)" (in Spanish). historiaelectoral.com. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
  10. ^ "Municipal elections (city majors by party)". historiaelectoral.com (in Spanish). Historia Electoral. Retrieved 24 February 2018.
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