Spanish local elections, 1979

3 April 1979

67,505 seats in 7,870 local councils 1,024 seats in 38 provincial deputations 153 seats in 3 Juntas Generales in the Basque Country 137 seats in 7 cabildos in the Canary Islands

Registered	26,591,013
Turnout	16,621,868 (62.5%)
	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Adolfo Suárez	None	Felipe González
Party	UCD	Independent	PSOE
Leader since	3 May 1977	N/A	13 October 1974
Seats won	28,960	14,684	12,059
Popular vote	5,018,784	1,661,664	4,615,837
Percentage	30.63%	10.14%	28.17%

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party

Leader	Santiago Carrillo	Manuel Fraga	Jordi Pujol
Party	PCE	CD	CiU
Leader since	3 July 1960	9 October 1976	19 September 1978
Seats won	3,727	2,339	1.756
Popular vote	2,139,570	489,581	504,832
Percentage	13.06%	2.99%	3.08%

The 1979 Spanish municipal elections were held on Tuesday, 3 April 1979, throughout all Spain municipalities.

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Elections and referendums in Spain

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Regional elections	1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015 2019

Referendums	1947 1966 1976 1978 1986 2005

See also: Elections and referendums in Andalusia Aragon Asturias Balearic Islands Basque Country Canary Islands Cantabria Castile and León Castile-La Mancha Catalonia Extremadura Galicia Madrid Murcia Navarre La Rioja Valencian Community

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