For the regional elections held concurrently, see 1983 Spanish regional elections.
1983 Spanish local elections
← 1979
8 May 1983
1987 →
67,312 councillors in 7,781 municipal councils 1,024 seats in 38 provincial deputations
Registered
27,474,920 3.3%
Turnout
18,370,300 (66.9%) 4.4 pp
First party
Second party
Third party
Leader
Felipe González
Manuel Fraga
Gerardo Iglesias
Party
PSOE
AP–PDP–PL
PCE
Leader since
13 October 1974
9 October 1976
10 December 1982
Last election
12,069 c., 28.2%
2,383 c., 3.1%[a]
3,725 c., 13.0%
Seats won
23,729
21,076
2,495
Seat change
11,660
18,693
1,230
Popular vote
7,883,502
4,843,665
1,513,023
Percentage
43.0%
26.4%
8.2%
Swing
14.8 pp
23.3 pp
4.8 pp
Fourth party
Fifth party
Sixth party
Leader
Jordi Pujol
Xabier Arzalluz
Adolfo Suárez
Party
CiU
EAJ/PNV
CDS
Leader since
19 September 1978
18 January 1980
29 July 1982
Last election
1,782 c., 3.1%
1,093 c., 2.2%
Did not contest
Seats won
3,329
1,322
658
Seat change
1,547
229
658
Popular vote
763,758
407,908
333,001
Percentage
4.2%
2.2%
1.8%
Swing
1.1 pp
0.0 pp
New party
Provincial results map for municipal elections
The 1983 Spanish local elections were held on Sunday, 8 May 1983, to elect all 67,505 councillors in the 7,781 municipalities of Spain and all 1,024 seats in 38 provincial deputations.[1][2] The elections were held simultaneously with regional elections in thirteen autonomous communities, as well as local elections in the three foral deputations of the Basque Country and the ten island councils in the Balearic and Canary Islands.
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^"Municipal elections in Spain 1979-2011". interior.gob.es (in Spanish). Ministry of the Interior. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
^"Provincial deputation elections since 1979" (in Spanish). historiaelectoral.com. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
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