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The 1981 Galician regional election was held on Tuesday, 20 October 1981, to elect the 1st Parliament of the autonomous community of Galicia. All 71 seats in the Parliament were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with a Statute of Autonomy referendum in Andalusia.
The governing Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD), which had been expected to maintain its primacy in a region where it had obtained favourable results in the general elections of 1977 and 1979, won 27.8% and 24 seats to come in second place to Manuel Fraga's People's Alliance (AP), which won the election with 30.5% of the vote and 26 seats. The Socialists' Party of Galicia (PSdG–PSOE), while faring better that in the general elections, did not secure the expected gains, obtaining 19.6% of the vote and 16 seats.[1] The Communist Party of Galicia (PCE–PCG) secured 1 seat after the voiding of 1,100 PSOE votes in the La Coruña constituency deprived the Socialists from a 17th seat.[2] Of the nationalist parties, only the Galician National-Popular Bloc–Galician Socialist Party (BNPG–PSG) and Galician Left (EG) secured parliamentary representation, with 3 and 1 seat respectively.
An agreement between AP and UCD allowed Gerardo Fernández Albor to be elected as regional president, at the head of a minority cabinet with UCD's external support.[3] The 1981 Galician election marked the beginning of the end for the UCD as a relevant political force in Spanish politics, confirming its ever more dwindling support among voters and AP's growth at its expense.[4][5] The 1982 Andalusian election held seven months later would signal a further blow to UCD, accelerating the internal decomposition of the party into the next general election.
- ^ "Espectacular triunfo de Alianza Popular en Galicia a costa de UCD". El País (in Spanish). 21 October 1981. Retrieved 16 December 2019.
- ^ "Los comunistas gallegos obtienen un escaño en el Parlamento autónomo". El País (in Spanish). 29 October 1981. Retrieved 17 December 2019.
- ^ "Fernández Albor, elegido primer presidente de la Junta autonómica gallega". El País (in Spanish). 9 January 1982. Retrieved 17 December 2019.
- ^ Rodíguez-Arana Muñoz, Jaime (2003). "Veinte años de autonomía en Galicia" (PDF). Foro galego: revista xurídica (in Spanish). No. 191. Universidade da Coruña. pp. 631–636. Retrieved 16 December 2019.
- ^ "UCD ya no es la misma". ABC (in Spanish). 31 December 1981. Retrieved 16 December 2019.