Extremaduran parliamentary election, 1987

Extremaduran parliamentary election, 1987

10 June 1987

All 65 seats in the Assembly of Extremadura 33 seats needed for a majority Registered 808,654 2.9% Turnout 601,615 (74.4%) 2.5 pp   First party Second party Third party   Leader Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra Adolfo Díaz-Ambrona Tomás Martín Tamayo Party PSOE AP CDS Leader since 20 December 1982 1976 1983 Last election 35 seats, 53.0% 20 seats, 30.1%[lower-alpha 1] 0 seats, 0.8% Seats won 34 17 8 Seat change 1 3 8 Popular vote 292,935 144,117 73,572 Percentage 49.2% 24.2% 12.4% Swing 3.8 pp 5.9 pp 11.6 pp   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader Pedro Cañada Manuel Pareja Party EU IU Leader since 10 December 1980 1983 Last election 6 seats, 8.5% 4 seats, 6.5%[lower-alpha 2] Seats won 4 2 Seat change 2 2 Popular vote 34,606 32,240 Percentage 5.8% 5.4% Swing 2.7 pp 1.1 pp

President before election Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra PSOE Elected President Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra PSOE

The 1987 Extremaduran parliamentary election was held on Wednesday, 10 June 1987, to elect the 2nd Assembly of Extremadura, the unicameral regional legislature of the Spanish autonomous community of Extremadura. At stake were all 65 seats in the Assembly, determining the President of Extremadura.

The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) won the election with a new absolute majority of seats, albeit losing 1 seat from its 1983 result. The People's Alliance (AP), which had undergone an internal crisis after the breakup of the People's Coalition in 1986, lost support and fell from the coalition's 30% of the share to 24%, losing 3 seats as a result.

The main election winner was the centrist Democratic and Social Centre (CDS), a party led by the former Spanish Prime Minister Adolfo Suarez, which entered the Assembly for the first with 8 seats and 12% of the vote, becoming the only party within the Assembly that made gains, as all others (including regionalist United Extremadura (EU)) lost votes. United Left, an electoral coalition comprising the Communist Party of Spain and other left-wing parties, also lost 2 seats.

Electoral system

The number of seats in the Extremaduran Assembly was set to a fixed-number of 65. All Assembly members were elected in 2 multi-member districts, corresponding to Extremadura's two provinces, using the D'Hondt method and a closed-list proportional representation system. Each district was entitled to an initial minimum of 20 seats, with the remaining 25 seats allocated among the two provinces in proportion to their populations. For the 1987 election, seats were distributed as follows: Badajoz (35) and Cáceres (30).

Voting was on the basis of universal suffrage in a secret ballot. Only lists polling above 5% of valid votes in each district (which include blank ballots—for none of the above) were entitled to enter the seat distribution. Alternatively, however, if a party did not reach the 5% threshold in a district, it could enter the seat distribution on the following conditions:

• 1. That the party did stood in both districts.
• 2. That, regionally, the party did reach the 5% threshold (even if it did not reach it in one of the two districts).^[1]

Results

Overall

← Summary of the 10 June 1987 Extremaduran Assembly election results →

Party		Vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Won	+/−
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	292,935	49.18	3.84	34	1
	People's Alliance (AP)[lower-alpha 1]	144,117	24.19	5.91	17	3
	Democratic and Social Centre (CDS)	73,572	12.35	11.56	8	8
	United Extremadura (EU)	34,606	5.81	2.67	4	2
	United Left (IU)[lower-alpha 2]	32,240	5.41	1.07	2	2
	Workers' Party of Spain-Communist Unity (PTE-UC)	5,317	0.89	New	0	±0
	People's Democratic Party (PDP)	5,203	0.87	New	0	±0
	Liberal Party (PL)	2,286	0.38	New	0	±0
	Humanist Platform (PH)	619	0.10	New	0	±0
	Blank ballots	4,785	0.80	0.33
Total		595,680	100.00		65	±0
Valid votes		595,680	99.01	0.08
Invalid votes		5,935	0.99	0.08
Votes cast / turnout		601,615	74.40	2.50
Abstentions		207,039	25.60	2.50
Registered voters		808,654
Source: Argos Information Portal

Vote share
PSOE			49.18%
AP			24.19%
CDS			12.35%
EU			5.81%
IU			5.41%
Others			2.26%
Blank ballots			0.80%

Parliamentary seats
PSOE			52.31%
AP			26.15%
CDS			12.31%
EU			6.15%
IU			3.08%

Results by province

Election 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 2/1987, of 16 March, of elections to the Assembly of Extremadura.".