1979 Spanish local elections

1979 Spanish local elections

← 1976 3 April 1979 1983 →
67,505 councillors in 7,870 municipal councils 1,152 seats in 43 provincial deputations
Registered	26,591,013
Turnout	16,621,868 (62.5%)
First party Second party Third party   Leader Adolfo Suárez Felipe González Santiago Carrillo Party UCD PSOE PCE Leader since 3 May 1977 13 October 1974 3 July 1960 Seats won 29,288 12,069 3,725 Popular vote 5,067,634 4,621,672 2,142,049 Percentage 30.9% 28.2% 13.0%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Jordi Pujol Manuel Fraga Carlos Garaikoetxea Party CiU CD EAJ/PNV Leader since 19 September 1978 9 October 1976 1977 Seats won 1,782 2,383 1,093 Popular vote 509,128 504,780 361,160 Percentage 3.1% 3.1% 2.2%
Provincial results map for municipal elections

The 1979 Spanish local elections were held on Tuesday, 3 April 1979, to elect all 67,505 councillors in the 7,870 municipalities of Spain and all 1,152 seats in 43 provincial deputations.^[1][2][3] The elections were held simultaneously with local elections in the four foral deputations of the Basque Country and Navarre and the ten island councils in the Balearic and Canary Islands.

While the national ruling Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) emerged as the largest party overall, an alliance between the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) and the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) saw municipal control over the main urban areas switching to left-wing parties.^[4][5]