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All 66 seats in the Cortes of Aragon 34 seats needed for a majority | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1983 Aragonese regional election was held on Sunday, 8 May 1983, to elect the 1st Cortes of the autonomous community of Aragon. All 66 seats in the Cortes were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in twelve other autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain.
The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) came first in the election by winning exactly half the seats—33 out of 66—one short of an overall majority, with 46.8% of the vote. The People's Coalition, a coalition of centre-right parties comprising the People's Alliance (AP), the People's Democratic Party (PDP) and the Liberal Union (UL), came second with 18 seats and 22.6% of the share, while the Regionalist Aragonese Party (PAR) finished third with 20.5% and 13 seats. The Communist Party of Spain (PCE) and the Democratic and Social Centre (CDS) both obtained 1 seat with between 3–4% of the vote each.[2] The former ruling party of Spain, the Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD), had dissolved itself in February 1983 and did not contest the election.[1]
The PSOE had initially obtained 34 seats, the absolute majority, but a new count in Zaragoza following a number of claims resulted in the PSOE's 17th seat in the constituency being awarded to the People's Coalition by few votes.[3][4] As a result of the election, PSOE candidate Santiago Marraco was elected by the Cortes as new president of the General Deputation of Aragon.[5][6] The election remains the only occasion to date in which a party has obtained 50% or more of seats on its own in an Aragonese regional election.
- ^ a b "La crisis de UCD culmina con la decisión de disolverse como partido político". El País (in Spanish). 19 February 1983. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
- ^ "El primer Gobierno será socialista". El País (in Spanish). 10 May 1983. Retrieved 11 December 2019.
- ^ "La formación del Gobierno aragonés provoca división en el partido vencedor". El País (in Spanish). 13 May 1983. Retrieved 11 December 2019.
- ^ "El PSOE pierde la mayoría absoluta en las Cortes de Aragón". El País (in Spanish). 15 May 1983. Retrieved 11 December 2019.
- ^ "Cinco socialistas y dos independientes forman el Gobierno autónomo de Aragón". El País (in Spanish). 4 June 1983. Retrieved 11 December 2019.
- ^ "El presidente de la Diputación General de Aragón, Santiago Marraco". El País (in Spanish). 7 June 1983. Retrieved 11 December 2019.
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