1979 Madrid City Council election

1979 Madrid City Council election
3 April 1979 1983 →
All 59 seats in the City Council of Madrid
30 seats needed for a majority
Registered2,378,941
Turnout1,569,610 (66.0%)
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader José Luis Álvarez Enrique Tierno Galván Ramón Tamames
Party UCD PSOE PCE
Leader since 1979 1979 1979
Seats won 25 25 9
Popular vote 632,329 619,772 230,651
Percentage 40.3% 39.5% 14.7%
Mayor before election

Luis María Huete y Morillo
UCD

Elected Mayor

Enrique Tierno Galván
PSOE

The 1979 Madrid City Council election, also the 1979 Madrid municipal election, was held on Tuesday, 3 April 1979, to elect the 1st City Council of the municipality of Madrid. All 59 seats in the City Council were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with local elections all throughout Spain.

The Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) emerged as the most voted party, but in a seat tie with the second force, the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), at 25 seats. As neither had an absolute majority of seats, it was up to the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) 9 seats to decide which party was to govern in Madrid.

Finally, an agreement between the PSOE and PCE resulted in Enrique Tierno Galván being named as the first democratically elected Mayor of Madrid.