Castile-La Mancha parliamentary election, 1987

Castile-La Mancha parliamentary election, 1987

10 June 1987

All 47 seats in the Courts of Castile-La Mancha 24 seats needed for a majority Registered 1,259,742 2.4% Turnout 950,262 (75.4%) 2.1 pp   First party Second party Third party   Leader José Bono Arturo García-Tizón Francisco Ruiz Castillo Party PSOE AP CDS Leader since 25 March 1983 23 June 1985 1987 Last election 23 seats, 46.7% 21 seats, 40.9%[lower-alpha 1] 0 seats, 3.0% Seats won 25 18 4 Seat change 2 3 4 Popular vote 435,121 319,978 98,539 Percentage 46.3% 34.1% 10.5% Swing 0.4 pp 6.8 pp 7.5 pp

President before election José Bono PSOE Elected President José Bono PSOE

The 1987 Castile-La Mancha parliamentary election was held on Wednesday, 10 June 1987, to elect the 2nd Courts of Castile-La Mancha, the regional legislature of the Spanish autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha. At stake were all seats in the Courts, determining the President of the Junta of Communities of Castile-La Mancha. The number of members increased from 44 to 47 compared to the previous election.

The election was won by the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), which gained 2 seats and enlarged its absolute majority from 52% to 53% of the seats; Castile-La Mancha thus became one of the few autonomous communities in the 1987 regional elections where the PSOE increased its parliamentary representation. The People's Alliance (AP), on the other hand, won just 34% of the share and 18 seats, after the People's Coalition had broken up in 1986. Both former AP partners, the People's Democratic Party (PDP) and the Liberal Party (PL), stood separately but failed to attract significant support.

The Democratic and Social Centre (CDS), a party founded by former Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez, entered the Courts for its first and only time, setting a record result for third parties in future regional elections with 4 seats and over 10% of the share. United Left (IU), an electoral coalition between the Communist Party of Spain and other left-wing parties formed in 1986, failed to gain any seats and dropped from the 6.9% it had in 1983 to 5.4%.

Electoral system

The number of seats in the Castile-La Mancha Courts was set to a fixed-number of 47. All Courts members were elected in 5 multi-member districts, corresponding to Castile-La Mancha's five provinces, using the D'Hondt method and a closed-list proportional representation system. Each district was assigned a fixed set of seats, distributed as follows: Albacete (10), Ciudad Real (11), Cuenca (8), Guadalajara (7) and Toledo (11).

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

Opinion polls

Seat projections

Opinion polls showing seat projections are displayed in the table below. The highest seat figures in each polling survey have their background shaded in the leading party's colour. In the instance that there is a tie, then no figure is shaded. 24 seats were required for an absolute majority in the Courts of Castile-La Mancha.

24 seats needed for majority (23/12/1986–10/06/1987)

23 seats needed for majority (08/05/1983–23/12/1986)

Date	Polling Firm/Source	PSOE	AP	IU	CDS	Others
10 Jun 1987	Regional Election	25	18	0	4	0
Exit polls
20 May	Typol	23−25	19−21	0	2−3	0
1987
2002
2001
2000
8 May 1983	Regional Election	23	21	0	0	0

Results

Overall

← Summary of the 10 June 1987 Castile-La Mancha Courts election results →

Party		Vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Won	+/−
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	435,121	46.33	0.37	25	2
	People's Alliance (AP)[lower-alpha 1]	319,978	34.07	6.85	18	3
	Democratic and Social Centre (CDS)	98,539	10.49	7.47	4	4
	United Left (IU)[lower-alpha 2]	50,366	5.36	1.50	0	±0
	People's Democratic Party (PDP)	15,863	1.69	New	0	±0
	Workers' Party of Spain-Communist Unity (PTE-UC)	3,871	0.41	New	0	±0
	Humanist Platform (PH)	1,778	0.19	New	0	±0
	Liberal Party (PL)	1,459	0.16	New	0	±0
	Social Democratic Party of Castile-La Mancha (PSDCLM)	1,317	0.14	New	0	±0
	Regionalist Unitary Party (PUR)	1,183	0.13	New	0	±0
	Manchegan Regionalist Party (PRM)	487	0.05	New	0	±0
	Blank ballots	9,247	0.98	0.33
Total		939,209	100.00		47	3
Valid votes		939,209	98.84	0.02
Invalid votes		11,053	1.16	0.02
Votes cast / turnout		950,262	75.43	2.11
Abstentions		309,480	26.68	2.11
Registered voters		1,259,742
Source: Argos Information Portal

Vote share
PSOE			46.33%
AP			34.07%
CDS			10.49%
IU			5.36%
PDP			1.69%
Others			1.51%
Blank ballots			0.98%

Parliamentary seats
PSOE			53.19%
AP			38.30%
CDS			8.51%

Results by province

Notes

1. Compared to the People's Coalition results in the 1983 election.
2. Compared to the Communist Party of Spain results in the 1983 election.

References

1. "Law 5/1986, of 23 December, electoral of Castile-La Mancha.".