1979 Seville City Council election
3 April 1979
All 31 seats in the City Council of Seville
16 seats needed for a majority
Registered427,951
Turnout243,827 (57.0%)
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Rafael López Palanco Antonio Rodríguez Almodóvar Luis Uruñuela
Party UCD PSOE PSA–PA
Leader since 1979 1979 1979
Seats won 9 8 8
Popular vote 65,725 60,116 56,957
Percentage 27.1% 24.8% 23.5%
  Fourth party
 
Leader Alonso Balosa
Party PCE
Leader since 1979
Seats won 6
Popular vote 44,704
Percentage 18.4%
Mayor before election

José Ramón Pérez de Lama
Independent

 Elected Mayor

Luis Uruñuela
PSA–PA

The 1979 Seville City Council election, also the 1979 Seville municipal election, was held on Tuesday, 3 April 1979, to elect the 1st City Council of the municipality of Seville. All 31 seats in the City Council were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with local elections all throughout Spain.

Electoral system

The City Council of Seville (Spanish: Ayuntamiento de Sevilla) was the top-tier administrative and governing body of the municipality of Seville, composed of the mayor, the government council and the elected plenary assembly.[1][2] Voting for the local assembly was on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprised all nationals over 18 years of age, registered in the municipality of Seville and in full enjoyment of their civil and political rights.

Local councillors were elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with an electoral threshold of five percent of valid votes—which included blank ballots—being applied in each local council.[1][2] Councillors were allocated to municipal councils based on the following scale:

Population Councillors
<250 5
251–1,000 7
1,001–2,000 9
2,001–5,000 11
5,001–10,000 13
10,001–20,000 17
20,001–50,000 21
50,001–100,000 25
>100,001 +1 per each 100,000 inhabitants or fraction
+1 if total is an even number

The mayor was indirectly elected by the plenary assembly. A legal clause required that mayoral candidates earned the vote of an absolute majority of councillors, or else the candidate of the most-voted party in the assembly was to be automatically appointed to the post. In the event of a tie, the eldest one would be elected.[1]

Parties and candidates

The electoral law allowed for parties and federations registered in the interior ministry, coalitions and groupings of electors to present lists of candidates. Parties and federations intending to form a coalition ahead of an election were required to inform the relevant Electoral Commission within fifteen days of the election call, whereas groupings of electors needed to secure the signature of at least one-thousandth of the electorate in the constituencies for which they sought election—with a compulsory minimum of 500 signatures—disallowing electors from signing for more than one list of candidates.[2]

Below is a list of the main parties and electoral alliances which contested the election:

Candidacy Parties and
alliances		 Leading candidate Ideology Gov. Ref.
UCD Rafael López Palanco Centrism ☒
PSOE Antonio Rodríguez Almodóvar Social democracy ☒
PSA–PA Luis Uruñuela Andalusian nationalism
Socialism
Marxism		 ☒
PCE Alonso Balosa Eurocommunism ☒

Results

Summary of the 3 April 1979 City Council of Seville election results →
Parties and alliances Popular vote Seats
Votes  % ±pp Total +/−
Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) 65,72527.09n/a 9n/a
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) 60,11624.78n/a 8n/a
Socialist Party of Andalusia–Andalusian Party (PSA–PA) 56,95723.48n/a 8n/a
Communist Party of Spain (PCE) 44,70418.43n/a 6n/a
Party of Labour of Andalusia (PTA) 3,7471.54n/a 0n/a
Democratic Coalition (CD) 2,8501.17n/a 0n/a
New Force (FN) 2,2430.92n/a 0n/a
Communist Organization of Spain (Red Flag) (OCE–BR) 1,7450.72n/a 0n/a
Spanish Communist Workers' Party (PCOE) 1,5760.65n/a 0n/a
Communist Unification of Spain (UCE) 9820.40n/a 0n/a
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (historical) (PSOEh) 8910.37n/a 0n/a
Revolutionary Communist League (LCR) 4560.19n/a 0n/a
Communist Movement–Organization of Communist Left (MCA–OIC) 2900.12n/a 0n/a
Workers' Revolutionary Organization (ORT) 00.00n/a 0n/a
Blank ballots 3250.13n/a
Total 242,607 31n/a
Valid votes 242,60799.50n/a
Invalid votes 1,2200.50n/a
Votes cast / turnout 243,82756.98n/a
Abstentions 184,12443.02n/a
Registered voters 427,951
Sources[3][4][5]
Popular vote
UCD
 
 27.09%
PSOE
 
 24.78%
PSA–PA
 
 23.48%
PCE
 
 18.43%
PTA
 
 1.54%
CD
 
 1.17%
Others
 
 3.37%
Blank ballots
 
 0.13%
Seats
UCD
 
 29.03%
PSOE
 
 25.81%
PSA–PA
 
 25.81%
PCE
 
 19.35%

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Ley 39/1978, de 17 de julio, de elecciones locales". Law No. 39 of 17 July 1978 (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 July 2020.
  2. 1 2 3 "Real Decreto-ley 20/1977, de 18 de marzo, sobre Normas Electorales". Royal Decree-Law No. 20 of 18 March 1977 (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 July 2020.
  3. ↑ "Statistic Yearbook of the city of Seville. 1999". www.sevilla.org (in Spanish). City Council of Seville. Archived from the original on 7 December 2017. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
  4. ↑ "Electoral Results Consultation. Municipal. April 1979. Seville Municipality". Ministry of the Interior (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 November 2017.
  5. ↑ "Elecciones municipales en Sevilla (1979 - 2015)". Historia Electoral.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 September 2017.
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