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1979 Basque foral elections

Spanish local elections

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ8774314 ↗
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Foral elections were held in the Basque Country on 3 April 1979 to elect the 1st General Assemblies of Álava, Biscay and Guipúzcoa. All 228 seats in the three General Assemblies were up for election. They were held concurrently with local elections all across Spain.

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The following table lists party control in the foral deputations.

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“1979 Basque foral elections” enters the record as spanish local elections. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Basque, foral and elections can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “1979 Basque foral elections” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.