# 1983 La Rioja regional election

[Spain](https://electionsarchive.com/es.md) / [La Rioja](https://electionsarchive.com/es/la-rioja.md), May 8, 1983

Turnout: 136,964 of 194,994 registered voters (70.2%).

## [La Rioja](https://electionsarchive.com/es/ri/1983-05-08-general/la-rioja.md)

PSOE won 18 of the 35 seats, with 47.6% of the vote.

| Candidate or party | Votes | Share | Seats |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party | 63,848 | 47.6% | 18 |
| Coalición Popular | 54,121 | 40.3% | 15 |
| Partido Riojano | 10,102 | 7.5% | 2 |
| Centro Democrático y Social | 3,264 | 2.4% |  |
| Partido Comunista de España | 2,934 | 2.2% |  |

These results come from Gobierno de La Rioja.

## Contests

- [La Rioja](https://electionsarchive.com/es/ri/1983-05-08-general/la-rioja.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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| La Rioja | 2.53 | 2.22 | 4.2 | 6.4 |  | 0.70 |

- From 134,269 votes and 35 seats.
- Measured over 174 municipalities.

Also available as HTML at https://electionsarchive.com/es/ri/1983-05-08-general and JSON at https://electionsarchive.com/es/ri/1983-05-08-general.json.