1979 Madrid municipal election
3 April 1979
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All 59 seats in the City Council of Madrid 30 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Registered | 2,378,941 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Turnout | 1,569,610 (66.0%) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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A municipal election was held in Madrid on Tuesday, 3 April 1979, to elect the 1st City Council of the municipality. All 59 seats in the City Council were up for election. It was held concurrently with local elections all across Spain.
The Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) emerged as the most voted party, but in a seat tie with the second force, the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), at 25 seats. As neither had an absolute majority of seats, it was up to the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) 9 seats to decide which party was to govern in Madrid.
Finally, an agreement between the PSOE and PCE resulted in Enrique Tierno Galván being named as the first democratically elected Mayor of Madrid.