The Spanish general election begins fourteen years of rule by the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party.

1982 Spanish general election

A general election was held in Spain on Thursday, 28 October 1982, to elect the members of the 2nd Cortes Generales. All 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies were up for election, as well as 208 of 254 seats in the Senate.

Spanish Socialist Workers' Party

Spanish political party

The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party is a social democratic political party in Spain. The PSOE has been in government longer than any other political party in modern democratic Spain: from 1982 to 1996 under Felipe González, 2004 to 2011 under José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, and…