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1983 Basque foral elections

Spanish local elections

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ8774316 ↗
Source-derived summary

Foral elections were held in the Basque Country on 8 May 1983 to elect the 2nd General Assemblies of Álava, Biscay and Guipúzcoa. All 153 seats in the three General Assemblies were up for election. They were held concurrently with regional elections in thirteen autonomous communities and local elections all across Spain.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “1983 Basque foral elections” is spanish local elections. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Basque, foral and elections, not as a finished interpretation.

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This entry incorporates text from “1983 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.