# 1980 Basque regional election

[Spain](https://electionsarchive.com/es.md) / [País Vasco](https://electionsarchive.com/es/pais-vasco.md), March 9, 1980

> The first Parliament of the autonomous community had 60 seats, 20 for each historic territory. From 1984 each territory elects 25, 75 in all, as the declared seats show (Ley Orgánica 3/1979, de 18 de diciembre, de Estatuto de Autonomía para el País Vasco).

Turnout: 929,051 of 1,554,527 registered voters (59.8%).

## Basque Parliament

EAJ-PNV won 25 of the 60 seats, with 38.1% of the vote.

| Candidate or party | Votes | Share | Seats |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Euzko Alderdi Jeltzalea-Partido Nacionalista Vasco | 349,102 | 38.1% | 25 |
| Herri Batasuna | 151,636 | 16.5% | 11 |
| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party | 130,221 | 14.2% | 9 |
| Euskadiko Ezkerra | 89,953 | 9.8% | 6 |
| Unión de Centro Democrático | 78,095 | 8.5% | 6 |
| Alianza Popular | 43,751 | 4.8% | 2 |
| Partido Comunista de España | 36,845 | 4.0% | 1 |
| MOVIMIENTO COMUNISTA DE EUSKADI | 10,959 | 1.2% |  |
| ESEI | 6,280 | 0.7% |  |
| LIGA KOMUNISTA IRAULTZAILEA | 5,182 | 0.6% |  |
| ORT-PTE | 3,448 | 0.4% |  |
| PART. SOCIALISTA OBRERO ESPAÑOL(SECTOR HISTORICO) | 2,760 | 0.3% |  |
| PARTIDO CARLISTA | 2,434 | 0.3% |  |
| PARTIDO SOCIALISTA DE LOS TRABAJADORES | 2,099 | 0.2% |  |
| UC | 2,044 | 0.2% |  |
| FE-JONS | 1,466 | 0.2% |  |

These results come from Gobierno Vasco.

## Contests

- [Álava](https://electionsarchive.com/es/pv/1980-03-09-general/alava.md)
- [Bizkaia](https://electionsarchive.com/es/pv/1980-03-09-general/bizkaia.md)
- [Gipuzkoa](https://electionsarchive.com/es/pv/1980-03-09-general/gipuzkoa.md)

## Party system indices

[How these indices are computed](https://electionsarchive.com/indices.md)

| Chamber | Effective parties by votes | Effective parties by seats | Gallagher index | Loosemore–Hanby index | Volatility | Nationalization |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Basque Parliament | 4.68 | 3.98 | 3.8 | 7.8 |  | 0.92 |

- From 916,275 votes and 60 seats.
- Measured over 3 provinces.
- Measured over fewer than ten places, so read it loosely.

Also available as HTML at https://electionsarchive.com/es/pv/1980-03-09-general and JSON at https://electionsarchive.com/es/pv/1980-03-09-general.json.