Catalan parliamentary election, 1984

Catalan parliamentary election, 1984

29 April 1984

All 135 seats in the Parliament of Catalonia 68 seats needed for a majority Turnout 2,892,486 (64.4%) 3.0 pp   First party Second party Third party   Leader Jordi Pujol Raimon Obiols Eduard Bueno Party CiU PSC AP Leader since 19 September 1978 12 July 1983 1983 Last election 43 seats, 27.8% 33 seats, 22.4% Did not contest Seats won 72 41 11 Seat change 29 8 11 Popular vote 1,346,729 866,281 221,601 Percentage 46.8% 30.1% 7.7% Swing 19.0 pp 7.7 pp New party   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader Antoni Gutiérrez Heribert Barrera Party PSUC ERC Leader since 1982 1980 Last election 25 seats, 18.8% 14 seats, 8.9% Seats won 6 5 Seat change 19 9 Popular vote 160,581 126,943 Percentage 5.6% 4.4% Swing 13.2 pp 4.5 pp

Graphic of the results in the Catalan Parliament election, 1984, based in seats and constituencies.

President before election Jordi Pujol CiU Elected President Jordi Pujol CiU

The 1984 Catalan parliamentary election was held on Sunday, 29 April 1984, to elect the 2nd Parliament of Catalonia, the regional legislature of the Spanish autonomous community of Catalonia. At stake were all 135 seats in the Parliament, determining the President of Catalonia.

Electoral system

The 135 members of the Parliament of Catalonia were elected in 4 multi-member districts, corresponding to Catalonia's four provinces, using the D'Hondt method and a closed-list proportional representation. As the community did not have an electoral law of its own passed into law at the time of the 1984 election, the electoral system came regulated under the community's Statute of Autonomy rules, and subsidiarily, under the Spanish general electoral law (Organic Law 5/1985, of the General Electoral Regime). As a result of the lack of an autonomous electoral law, seats were allocated to districts through specific Laws or Decrees for each election. For the 1984 election, seats were distributed as follows: Barcelona (85), Girona (17), Lleida (15) and Tarragona (18).

Voting was on the basis of universal suffrage in a secret ballot. Only lists polling above 3% of valid votes in each district (which includes blank ballots—for none of the above) were entitled to enter the seat distribution.

Background

After of 4 years of a Convergence and Union government, these elections consolidated the nationalist party, which remained in power until 2003.

In the past 1980 elections, Convergence and Union's leader, Jordi Pujol, governed in minority after an agreement with Union of the Democratic Centre.

Parties

• Convergència i Unió (CiU, Convergence and Union). Presidential candidate: Jordi Pujol. Union of the Catalan nationalist, fiscally liberal Democratic Convergence of Catalonia and the conservative Democratic Union of Catalonia.
• Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC). Presidential candidate: Raimon Obiols. Social democratic and leftist. The PSC are affiliated to the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE).
• People's Alliance-People's Democratic Party-Liberal Union (AP). Presidential candidate: Eduard Bueno. Union of the main party of the centre-right in Spain, People's Alliance, the christian democrat People's Democratic Party and the liberal Liberal Union.
• Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSUC). Presidential candidate: Antoni Gutiérrez. Communist, republican and leftist.
• Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC, Republican Left of Catalonia). Presidential candidate: Heribert Barrera. Catalan republican and independentist, left-wing.

Results

← Summary of the 29 May 1984 Catalan Parliament election results →

Party		Vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Won	+/−
	Convergence and Union (CiU)	1,346,729	46.80	18.97	72	29
	Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC-PSOE)	866,281	30.11	7.68	41	8
	People's Alliance-People's Democratic Party-Liberal Union (AP)	221,601	7.70	New	11	11
	Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSUC)	160,581	5.58	13.19	6	19
	Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC)	126,943	4.41	4.49	5	9
	Party of the Communists of Catalonia (PCC)	68,836	2.39	New	0	±0
	The Entesa of the Left Nationalists (CEEEC)	35,937	1.25	New	0	±0
	Spanish Vertex Ecological Development Revindication (VERDE)	8,714	0.30	New	0	±0
	Social Democratic Party of Catalonia (PSDC)	6,768	0.24	New	0	±0
	Workers' Socialist Party (PST)	5,381	0.19	New	0	±0
	Internationalist Socialist Workers' Party (POSI)	3,533	0.12	New	0	±0
	Revolutionary Workers' Party (POR)	2,694	0.09	New	0	±0
	Communist Workers Party of Catalonia (PCOC)	2,593	0.09	0.39	0	±0
	Revolutionary Communist League (LCR)	1,861	0.06	New	0	±0
	Communist Party of Spain (Marxist-Leninist) (PCE (m-l))	1,834	0.06	New	0	±0
	Spanish Democratic Party (PDE)	1,110	0.04	New	0	±0
	Partit Lleidatà (PLL)	856	0.03	New	0	±0
	Unity of Aran (UA)	787	0.03	New	0	±0
	Communist Movement of Catalonia (MCC)	164	0.01	New	0	±0

	Blank ballots	14,313	0.49	0.17
Total		2,877,516	100.00		135	±0
Valid votes		2,877,516	99.48	0.02
Invalid votes		14,970	0.52	0.02
Votes cast / turnout		2,892,486	64.36	3.02
Abstentions		1,601,854	35.64	3.02
Registered voters		4.494.340
Source(s): Department of Interior and Institutional Relations

Vote share
CiU			46.80%
PSC-PSOE			30.11%
AP			7.70%
PSUC			5.58%
ERC			4.41%
Others			4.91%
Blank ballots			0.49%

Parliamentary seats
CiU			53.33%
PSC-PSOE			30.37%
AP			8.15%
PSUC			4.45%
ERC			3.70%

Results by district