1983 Valencian regional election

1983 Valencian regional election

8 May 1983 1987 →
All 89 seats in the Corts Valencianes 45 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered	2,654,967
Turnout	1,931,142 (72.7%)
First party Second party Third party   Leader Joan Lerma Manuel Giner José Galán Party PSOE AP–PDP–UL–UV PCE–PCPV Leader since 31 July 1979 December 1981 23 September 1980 Leader's seat Valencia Valencia Alicante Seats won 51 32 6 Popular vote 982,567 609,519 142,570 Percentage 51.4% 31.9% 7.5%
Election result by constituency
President before election Joan Lerma PSOE Elected President Joan Lerma PSOE

The 1983 Valencian regional election was held on Sunday, 8 May 1983, to elect the 1st Corts of the Valencian Community. All 89 seats in the Corts 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) won the election with an absolute majority of 51 out of 89 seats and almost one million votes (51.4% of the vote). The People's Coalition, composed in the Valencian Community by the People's Alliance (AP), the People's Democratic Party (PDP), the Liberal Union and the Valencian Union (UV), became the second political force and the main opposition party in the Corts Valencianes with 32 seats. The Communist Party of Spain (PCE) managed to surpass the 5% regional threshold and entered the Corts with 6 seats, seeing a slight recovery from its results in the October 1982 general election.^[1][2]

As a result of the election, regional PSOE leader Joan Lerma became the first democratically elected president of the Valencian Government.^[3]