Canarian regional election, 1983

8 May 1983

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All 60 seats in the Parliament of the Canary Islands
31 seats needed for a majority

Registered

925,572

Turnout

578,570 (62.5%)

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Jerónimo Saavedra	Francisco Marcos Hernández	Lorenzo Olarte
Party	PSOE	AP–PDP–UL	CDS
Leader since	1977	1983	1983
Seats won	27	17	6
Popular vote	233,991	163,419	40,789
Percentage	41.2%	28.8%	7.2%

Island-level units won by PSOE (red), AP-PDP-UL (yellow) and AM (blue)

President before election

Jerónimo Saavedra
PSOE

Elected President

Jerónimo Saavedra
PSOE

The 1983 Canarian regional election was held on Sunday, 8 May 1983, to elect the 1st Parliament of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands. All 60 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 Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) emerged as the largest party in the archipelago with 27 seats (4 short of an overall majority), following the disintegration and dissolution of the Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD), former ruling party of Spain in the 1977-1982 period which had achieved virtually unopposed victories in the islands in the 1977 and 1979 general elections. As a result, the centre and centre-right vote became split between several small parties and splits from the UCD, such as the Democratic and Social Centre of former Spanish Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez, which entered Parliament with 6 seats; the Independents' Gomera Group (AGI), with 2 seats or the Canarian Nationalist Convergence (CNC), with 1 seat.

The People's Coalition, a party coalition comprising the People's Alliance (AP), the People's Democratic Party (PDP) and the Liberal Union (UL) became the second largest party and the main opposition force in the Parliament with 17 seats, while the also-nationwide Communist Party of Spain (PCE) obtained 1 seat.

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