Balearic regional election, 1983

Balearic regional election, 1983

8 May 1983 1987 →
All 54 seats in the Parliament of the Balearic Islands 28 seats needed for a majority
Registered	488,336
Turnout	315,795 (64.7%)
First party Second party Third party   Leader Gabriel Cañellas Félix Pons Jeroni Albertí Party AP–PDP–UL PSOE UM Leader since 1980 1979 1982 Leader's seat Majorca Majorca Majorca Seats won 21 21 6 Popular vote 110,629 107,906 46,915 Percentage 35.6% 34.7% 15.1%
Constituency results map for the Parliament of the Balearic Islands
President before election Francesc Tutzó UCD Elected President Gabriel Cañellas AP–PDP–UL

Francesc Tutzó
UCD

Gabriel Cañellas
AP–PDP–UL

The 1983 Balearic regional election was held on Sunday, 8 May 1983, to elect the 1st Parliament of the Autonomous Community of the Balearic Islands. All 54 seats in the Parliament were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in twelve other autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain.

The regional picture, at first glance, had been dominated by the Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD), heading the pre-autonomic government since 1978 and having won the 1979 elections to the Majorca and Menorca Island Councils. However, the UCD was dissolved in early 1983 after its disastrous defeat in the 1982 Spanish general election, with its supporters fleeing to the People's Alliance (AP), the People's Democratic Party (PDP) or, as one of its erstwhile leaders, the newly founded Majorcan Union (UM). Other parties which had also contested the Island Council elections four year previously were regional branch of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, the Socialist Party of Majorca or the Communist Party of the Balearic Islands. There was no electoral law passed, but the 1983 Statute of Autonomy did provide for a provisional distribution of seats per island until the community could have its own electoral law.