Canarian parliamentary election, 1987

Canarian parliamentary election, 1987

10 June 1987

All 60 seats in the Parliament of Canarias 31 seats needed for a majority Registered 1,034,863 10.5% Turnout 676,795 (65.4%) 4.9 pp   First party Second party Third party   Leader Jerónimo Saavedra Miguel Cabrera Pérez Lorenzo Olarte Party PSOE AIC CDS Leader since 1977 1985 1983 Last election 27 seats, 42.1% 2 seats, 1.4%[lower-alpha 1] 6 seats, 7.3% Seats won 21 11 13 Seat change 6 9 7 Popular vote 185,749 134,667 130,297 Percentage 27.8% 20.1% 19.5% Swing 14.3 pp 18.7 pp 12.2 pp

Island-level units won by PSOE (red), AIC (green) and AM (blue)

President before election Jerónimo Saavedra PSOE Elected President Fernando Fernández Martín CDS

The 1987 Canarian parliamentary election was held on Wednesday, 10 June 1987, to elect the 2nd Canarian Parliament, the unicameral regional legislature of the Spanish autonomous community of the Canary Islands. At stake were all 60 seats in the Parliament, determining the President of the Canary Islands.

Electoral system

The 60 members of the Canarian Parliament were elected in 7 multi-member districts using the D'Hondt method and a closed-list proportional representation system. Unlike other regions, districts did not coincide with provincial limits, being determined by law for each of the main islands to become a district of its own. The electoral system came regulated under the Autonomous Statute of Autonomy. Each district was assigned a fixed set of seats, distributed as follows: El Hierro (3), Fuerteventura (7), Gran Canaria (15), La Gomera (4), La Palma (8), Lanzarote (8) and Tenerife (15).

Voting was on the basis of universal suffrage in a secret ballot. Only lists polling above 20% of the total vote in each district or above 3% in all of the community (which include blank ballots—for none of the above) were entitled to enter the seat distribution.^[1]

Results

Overall

← Summary of the 10 June 1987 Canarian Parliament election results →

Party		Vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Won	+/−
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	185,749	27.77	14.32	21	6
	Canarian Independent Groups (AIC)[lower-alpha 1]	134,667	20.13	18.75	11	9
	Democratic and Social Centre (CDS)	130,297	19.48	12.18	13	7
	People's Alliance (AP)[lower-alpha 2]	74,767	11.18	18.28	6	11
	Canarian Assembly-Canarian Nationalist Left (AC-INC)[lower-alpha 3]	46,229	6.91	1.51	2	±0
	United Canarian Left (ICU)[lower-alpha 4]	40,837	6.10	2.91	2	1
	Centre Canarian Union-Liberal Party (UCC-PL)	15,580	2.33	2.06	0	1
	People's Democratic Party-Canarian Centrists (PDP-CC)	13,274	1.98	New	0	±0
	Canarias National Congress (CNC)	8,769	1.31	New	0	±0
	Majoreran Assembly (AM)	5,423	0.81	0.19	3	±0
	Workers' Socialist Party (PST)	2,110	0.32	0.04	0	±0
	Independent Herrenian Group (AHI)	1,415	0.21	0.04	2	1
	Left Nationalists Union (UNI)	1,287	0.19	New	0	±0
	Humanist Platform (PH)	1,146	0.17	New	0	±0
	Canary Islands People's Front-Awañac (FREPIC-Awañac)	1,106	0.17	New	0	±0
	Workers' Party of Spain-Communist Unity (PTE-UC)	987	0.15	New	0	±0
	Lanzarote Assembly (Tagoror)	552	0.08	New	0	±0
	Canarian Democratic Union (UDC)	428	0.06	New	0	±0
	Blank ballots	4,321	0.65	0.02
Total		668,944	100.00		60	±0
Valid votes		668,944	98.84	0.45
Invalid votes		7,851	1.16	0.45
Votes cast / turnout		676,795	65.40	4.91
Abstentions		358,068	34.60	4.91
Registered voters		1,034,863
Source: Argos Information Portal

Vote share
PSOE			27.77%
AIC			20.13%
CDS			19.48%
AP			11.18%
AC-INC			6.91%
ICU			6.10%
UCC-PL			2.33%
PDP-CC			1.98%
CNC			1.31%
AM			0.81%
AHI			0.21%
Others			1.14%
Blank ballots			0.65%

Parliamentary seats
PSOE			35.00%
CDS			21.67%
AIC			18.33%
AP			10.00%
AM			5.00%
AC-INC			3.33%
ICU			3.33%
AHI			3.33%

Notes

1. Compared to the Independents' Gomera Group and Lanzarote Island Group results in the 1983 election.
2. Compared to the People's Coalition results in the 1983 election.
3. Compared to the Canarian People's Union-Canarian Assembly results in the 1983 election.
4. Compared to the Communist Party of Spain results in the 1983 election.

References

1. "Organic Law 10/1982, of 10 August, of the Statute of Autonomy of Canarias".