Valencian parliamentary election, 1987

Valencian parliamentary election, 1987

10 June 1987

All 89 seats in the Valencian Courts 45 seats needed for a majority Opinion polls Registered 2,727,703 2.7% Turnout 2,030,881 (74.5%) 1.8 pp   First party Second party Third party   Leader Joan Lerma Rita Barberá José Luis Boado Party PSPV-PSOE AP CDS Leader since 31 July 1979 1987 1987 Last election 51 seats, 51.4% 27 seats, 31.9%[lower-alpha 1] 0 seats, 1.9% Seats won 42 25 10 Seat change 9 7 10 Popular vote 828,961 476,099 225,663 Percentage 41.3% 23.7% 11.2% Swing 10.1 pp 8.2 pp 9.3 pp   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader Filibert Crespo Albert Taberner Party UV IU Leader since 1987 1986 Last election Did not contest[lower-alpha 2] 6 seats, 10.5%[lower-alpha 3] Seats won 6 6 Seat change 6 ±0 Popular vote 183,541 159,579 Percentage 9.1% 7.9% Swing New party 2.6 pp

President before election Joan Lerma PSPV-PSOE Elected President Joan Lerma PSPV-PSOE

The 1987 Valencian parliamentary election was held on Wednesday, 10 June 1987, to elect the 2nd democratically-elected Valencian Courts, the regional legislature of the Spanish autonomous community of Valencia. At stake were all 89 seats in the Courts, determining the President of the Valencian Government.

The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), suffering from a strong loss of popular support, lost 9 seats together with the absolute majority it had achieved in 1983. However, the PSOE remained as the largest party by a great margin due to the splitting up of the vote between the opposition parties. Incumbent President Joan Lerma was able to retain government thanks to the support of the IU-UPV alliance, and went on to form a minority government.

The People's Coalition had broken up after the 1986 general election. As a result, the People's Alliance (AP) and the People's Democratic Party (PDP) contested the election separately. AP, with future Mayoress of Valencia Rita Barberá as regional candidate, scored slightly less than 24% of the vote and lost 2 seats compared to the combined totals for the AP-PDP-UL coalition in 1983, while the PDP was swept out of the Courts entirely.^[1]

On the other hand, the election saw an increase of support for minor parties: Centrist Democratic and Social Centre (CDS) experienced a significant increase of its popular support and became the third political force in the region with over 10% of the share. The regionalist right-wing Valencian Union (UV), which ran separately for the first time, won 6 seats to the 5 it had obtained within the People's Coalition in 1983.^[1] The Communist Party of Spain (PCE), which had formed the electoral alliance United Left (IU) in April 1986 with other smaller left-wing parties across Spain, stood in coalition with the regional Valencian People's Unity (UPV) and won 6 seats.

Electoral system

The number of seats in the Valencian Courts was set to a fixed-number of 89. All Courts members were elected in 3 multi-member districts, corresponding to the Valencian Community's three 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 29 seats allocated among the three provinces in proportion to their populations, on the required condition that the number of inhabitants per seat in each district did not exceed 3 times those of any other. For the 1987 election, seats were distributed as follows: Alicante (29), Castellon (23) and Valencia (37).

Voting was on the basis of universal suffrage in a secret ballot. Only lists polling above 5% of valid votes in all of the community (which include blank ballots—for none of the above) were entitled to enter the seat distribution. This meant that in the case a list polled above 5% in one or more of the districts but below 5% in the community totals, it would remain outside of the seat apportionment.^[2]

Opinion polls

Vote estimations

Poll results are listed in the tables below in reverse chronological order, showing the most recent first, and using the date the survey's fieldwork was done, as opposed to the date of publication. If such date is unknown, the date of publication is given instead. The highest percentage figure in each polling survey is displayed in bold, and the background shaded in the leading party's colour. In the instance that there is a tie, then no figure is shaded. The lead column on the right shows the percentage-point difference between the two parties with the highest figures. When a specific poll does not show a data figure for a party, the party's cell corresponding to that poll is shown empty.

Polling Firm/Link	Last Date of Polling							Margin of Error	Sample Size	Lead
Regional Election	June 10, 1987	41.3	23.7	7.9	w.	11.2	9.1			17.6
Demoscopia	May 26, 1987	42.2	26.8	7.4	w.	12.7	4.8			15.4
Sofemasa	April 17, 1987	35.3	23.5	5.9	w.	13.7	5.9			11.8
General Election	June 22, 1986	47.5	28.8	4.7	1.9	8.8	3.1			18.7
Regional Election	May 8, 1983	51.4	31.9	7.5	3.1	1.9	w.			19.5

Parliamentary 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. 45 seats were required for an absolute majority in the Valencian Courts.

45 seats needed for majority

Polling Firm/Link	Last Date of Polling
Regional Election	June 10, 1987	42	25	6	w.	10	6
Demoscopia	May 26, 1987	43	30	5	w.	11	0
General Election	June 22, 1986	(49)	(32)	(0)	(0)	(8)	(0)
Regional Election	May 8, 1983	51	32	6	0	0	w.

Results

Overall

← Summary of the 10 June 1987 Valencian Courts election results →

Party		Vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Won	+/−
	Socialist Party of the Valencian Country (PSPV-PSOE)	828,961	41.28	10.13	42	9
	People's Alliance (AP)[lower-alpha 1]	476,099	23.71	8.18	25	7
	Democratic and Social Centre (CDS)	225,663	11.24	9.36	10	10
	Valencian Union (UV)[lower-alpha 2]	183,541	9.14	New	6	6
	United Left-Valencian People's Unity (IU-UPV)[lower-alpha 3]	159,579	7.95	2.58	6	±0
	Workers' Party of Spain-Communist Unity (PTE-UC)	33,770	1.68	New	0	±0
	The Greens (LV)	22,262	1.11	New	0	±0
	People's Democratic Party-Valencian Centrists (PDP-CV)	20,171	1.00	New	0	±0
	Valencian Electoral Coalition (CEV)	11,984	0.60	New	0	±0
	Spanish Vertex Ecological Development Revindication (VERDE)	5,056	0.25	New	0	±0
	Communist Unification of Spain (UCE)	4,325	0.22	New	0	±0
	Valencian Nationalist Left-Valencianist Regional Union (ENV-URV)	4,175	0.21	0.19	0	±0
	Humanist Platform (PH)	3,658	0.18	New	0	±0
	Republican People's Unity (UPR)	3,309	0.16	New	0	±0
	Left Front (FI)	2,295	0.11	New	0	±0
	Internationalist Socialist Workers' Party (POSI)	1,884	0.09	New	0	±0
	Blank ballots	21,497	1.07	0.38
Total		2,008,229	100.00		89	±0
Valid votes		2,008,229	98.88	0.09
Invalid votes		22,652	1.12	0.09
Votes cast / turnout		2,030,881	74.45	1.71
Abstentions		696,822	25.55	1.71
Registered voters		2,727,703
Source(s): Valencian Courts Argos Information Portal

Vote share
PSPV-PSOE			41.28%
AP			23.71%
CDS			11.24%
UV			9.14%
IU-UPV			7.95%
PTE-UC			1.68%
LV			1.11%
PDP-CV			1.00%
Others			1.82%
Blank ballots			1.07%

Parliamentary seats
PSPV-PSOE			47.19%
AP			28.09%
CDS			11.24%
UV			6.74%
IU-UPV			6.74%

Results by province

Election results by province.

Post-election

Investiture voting

Date	Candidate	Total	Notes
21 July 1987 Majority required: Absolute (45/89)	Joan Lerma (PSPV)	48 / 89	PSPV (42), IU-UPV (6)
	Rita Barberá (AP)	25 / 89	AP (25)
	Abstentions	10 / 89	CDS (10)
	Other	6 / 89	Did not vote: UV (6)
Source: El País

Notes

1. Compared to the People's Coalition results in the 1983 election. Official comparisons usually include Valencian Union results within the Coalition's totals, as it is impossible to determine which % of the share obtained by the Coalition in 1983 corresponds to UV.
2. Contested the 1983 election together with the People's Coalition, winning 5 of the coalition's 32 seats (2 in Alicante, 1 in Castellon and 2 in Valencia). For the 1987 election it ran separately.
3. Compared to the Communist Party of Spain+Valencian People's Unity results in the 1983 election.

References

1. Courts Valencianes election results, historiaelectoral.com. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
2. "Law 1/1987, of 31 March, Valencian electoral".