Barcelona City Council election, 1987

10 June 1987

All 43 seats in the Barcelona City Council 22 seats needed for a majority

Registered	1,342,049 1.3%
Turnout	925,117 (68.9%) 2.9 pp
	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Pasqual Maragall	Josep Maria Cullell	Enrique Lacalle
Party	PSC	CiU	AP
Leader since	2 December 1982	1987	1987
Last election	21 seats, 45.9%	13 seats, 27.5%	6 seats, 13.0%^{[lower-alpha 1]}
Seats won	21	17	3
Seat change	±0	4	3
Popular vote	400,280	325,463	69,419
Percentage	43.6%	35.5%	7.6%
Swing	2.3 pp	8.0 pp	5.4 pp

Mayor before election

Pasqual Maragall
PSC

Elected Mayor

Pasqual Maragall
PSC

The 1987 Barcelona City Council election was held on Wednesday, 10 June 1987, to elect the 3rd Barcelona City Council, the unicameral local legislature of the municipality of Barcelona. At stake were all 43 seats in the City Council, determining the Mayor of Barcelona.

Electoral system

The number of seats in the Barcelona City Council was determined by the population count. According to the municipal electoral law, the population-seat relationship on each municipality was to be established on the following scale:

Inhabitants	Seats
<250	5
251–1,000	7
1,001–2,000	9
2,001–5,000	11
5,001–10,000	13
10,001–20,000	17
20,001–50,000	21
50,001–100,000	25

Additionally, for populations greater than 100,000, 1 seat was to be added per each 100,000 inhabitants or fraction, according to the most updated census data, and adding 1 more seat if the resulting seat count gives an even number. As the updated population census for the 1987 election was 1,701,812, the Barcelona City Council size was set to 43 seats.

All City Council members were elected in a single multi-member district, consisting of the Barcelona municipality, using the D'Hondt method and a closed-list proportional representation system. Voting was on the basis of universal suffrage in a secret ballot. Only lists polling above 5% of valid votes in all of the municipality (which include blank ballots—for none of the above) were entitled to enter the seat distribution.

The Spanish municipal electoral law established a clause stating that, if no candidate was to gather an absolute majority of votes to be elected as mayor of a municipality, the candidate of the most-voted party would be automatically elected to the post.^[1]

Results

← Summary of the 10 June 1987 Barcelona City Council election results →
Party		Vote			Seats

Party		Votes	%	±pp	Won	+/−
	Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC-PSOE)	400,280	43.61	2.33	21	±0
	Convergence and Union (CiU)	325,463	35.46	7.91	17	4
	People's Alliance (AP)^{[lower-alpha 1]}	69,419	7.56	5.40	3	3
	Initiative for Catalonia (IC)^{[lower-alpha 2]}	47,406	5.16	2.87	2	1

	Democratic and Social Centre (CDS)	31,028	3.38	2.44	0	±0
	Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC)	21,236	2.31	1.56	0	±0
	Green Alternative-Ecologist Movement of Catalonia (AV-MEC)	3,916	0.43	New	0	±0
	Ecologist Party of Catalonia-VERDE (PEC-VERDE)	3,116	0.34	New	0	±0
	Workers' Party of Spain-Communist Unity (PTE-UC)	2,078	0.23	New	0	±0
	Spanish Falange of the JONS (FE-JONS)	1,388	0.15	0.02	0	±0
	Revolutionary Workers' Party of Spain (PORE)	1,152	0.13	0.03	0	±0
	Republican People's Unity (UPR)	1,069	0.12	New	0	±0
	Humanist Platform (PH)	948	0.10	New	0	±0

Parties with less than 0.1% of the vote		2,499	0.27	–	±0
	Communist Unification of Spain (UCE)	869	0.09	New	±0
	Internationalist Socialist Workers' Party (POSI)	636	0.07	New	±0
	Social Democratic Party of Catalonia (PSDC)	566	0.06	New	±0
	Communist Workers' League (LOC)	428	0.05	New	±0
	People's Democratic Party (PDP)	0	0.00	New	±0

	Blank ballots	6,879	0.75	0.75

Total		917,877	100.00		43	±0

Valid votes		917,877	99.22	0.78
Invalid votes		7,240	0.78	0.78
Votes cast / turnout		925,117	68.93	2.92
Abstentions		416,932	31.07	2.92
Registered voters		1,342,049

Source: Ministry of the Interior

Vote share

PSC-PSOE			43.61%
CiU			35.46%
AP			7.56%
IC			5.16%
CDS			3.38%
ERC			2.31%
Others			1.76%
Blank ballots			0.75%

City council seats

PSC-PSOE			48.84%
CiU			39.53%
AP			6.98%
IC			4.65%

Notes

1 2 Compared to the People's Coalition results in the 1983 election.
↑ Compared to the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia+Party of the Communists of Catalonia results in the 1983 election.

References

↑ "Organic Law 5/1985, of 19 June, of the General Electoral Regime. Title III, Special Provisions for Municipal Elections.".

Elections in Barcelona

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