Aragonese parliamentary election, 1987

Aragonese parliamentary election, 1987
Aragon
10 June 1987
All 67 seats in the Courts of Aragon
34 seats needed for a majority
Registered 928,571 Increase1.0%
Turnout 647,067 (69.7%)
Increase3.0 pp
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Santiago Marraco Hipólito Gómez de las Roces Ángel Cristóbal
Party PSOE PAR AP
Leader since November 1979 December 1977 1987
Last election 33 seats, 46.8% 13 seats, 20.5% 18 seats, 22.6%[lower-alpha 1]
Seats won 27 19 13
Seat change Decrease6 Increase6 Decrease5
Popular vote 228,170 179,922 99,082
Percentage 35.7% 28.1% 15.5%
Swing Decrease11.1 pp Increase7.6 pp Decrease7.1 pp
  Fourth party Fifth party
 
Leader José Luis Merino Antonio de las Casas
Party CDS IU
Leader since 1983 1987
Last election 1 seat, 3.3% 1 seat, 4.0%[lower-alpha 2]
Seats won 6 2
Seat change Increase5 Increase1
Popular vote 65,406 31,352
Percentage 10.2% 4.9%
Swing Increase6.9 pp Increase0.9 pp
President before election

Santiago Marraco
PSOE

 Elected President

Hipólito Gómez de las Roces
PAR

The 1987 Aragonese parliamentary election was held on Wednesday, 10 June 1987, to elect the 2nd democratically-elected Courts of Aragon, the regional legislature of the Spanish autonomous community of Aragon. At stake were all 67 seats in the Courts, determining the President of the Government of Aragon.

The main two national parties, the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) and the People's Alliance (AP) lost support compared to the previous election. The latter had suffered from an internal crisis and the breakup of the People's Coalition in 1986, losing 30% of its 1983 vote and finishing third as a result. The main election winners were the Regionalist Aragonese Party (PAR), which came a strong second, and the centrist Democratic and Social Centre (CDS), a party led by the former Spanish Prime Minister Adolfo Suarez. United Left made a small advance of 0.9 percentage points and 1 seat, not being able to capitalize on the PSOE's losses.

The PSOE 27 seats compared to the centre-right 32 (38 if the CDS is counted in) meant that the Socialist Santiago Marraco was not re-elected as President of Aragon. Instead, Hipólito Gómez de las Roces from the PAR was elected President as head of a PAR administration with the support of the AP and the abstention of the CDS. In March 1989 the People's Alliance entered the government through a coalition for the remainder of the legislature, with AP members being appointed ministers in the regional administration.

Electoral system

The number of seats in the Aragonese Courts was set to a fixed-number of 67. All Courts members were elected in 3 multi-member districts, corresponding to Aragon's three provinces, using the D'Hondt method and a closed-list proportional representation system. Each district was entitled to an initial minimum of 13 seats, with the remaining 28 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 2.75 times those of any other. For the 1987 election, seats were distributed as follows: Huesca (18), Teruel (16) and Zaragoza (33).

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

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 35.7 15.5 28.1 4.9 10.2 7.6
Demoscopia May 26, 1987 28.5 15.5 32.7 4.7 11.7 4.2
General Election June 22, 1986 43.4 26.1 11.0 3.4 11.2 17.3
Regional Election May 8, 1983 46.8 22.6 20.5 4.0 3.3 24.2

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. 34 seats were required for an absolute majority in the Courts of Aragon.

34 seats needed for majority
Polling Firm/Link Last Date
of Polling
Regional Election June 10, 1987 27 13 19 2 6
Demoscopia May 26, 1987 18/19 14 25/26 2 7
General Election June 22, 1986 (32) (20) (7) (1) (7)
Regional Election May 8, 1983 33 18 13 1 1

Results

Overall

← Summary of the 10 June 1987 Aragonese Courts election results →
Party Vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Won +/−
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) 228,170 35.69 Decrease11.15 27 Decrease6
Regionalist Aragonese Party (PAR) 179,922 28.15 Increase7.64 19 Increase6
People's Alliance (AP)[lower-alpha 1] 99,082 15.50 Decrease7.13 13 Decrease5
Democratic and Social Centre (CDS) 65,406 10.23 Increase6.94 6 Increase5
Aragon Alternative Convergence-United Left (CAA-IU)[lower-alpha 2] 31,352 4.90 Increase0.94 2 Increase1
Workers' Party of Spain-Communist Unity (PTE-UC) 8,435 1.32 New 0 ±0
People's Democratic Party (PDP) 7,887 1.23 New 0 ±0
Aragonese Unity-Aragonese Union (UA-CHA) 6,154 0.96 New 0 ±0
Humanist Platform (PH) 2,207 0.35 New 0 ±0
Republican People's Unity (UPR) 1,435 0.22 New 0 ±0
Blank ballots 9,214 1.44 Increase0.81
Total 639,264 100.00 67 Increase1
Valid votes 639,264 98.79 Increase0.19
Invalid votes 7,803 1.21 Decrease0.19
Votes cast / turnout 647,067 69.68 Increase2.97
Abstentions 281,504 30.32 Decrease2.97
Registered voters 928,571
Source: Argos Information Portal
Vote share
PSOE
  
 35.69%
PAR
  
 28.15%
AP
  
 15.50%
CDS
  
 10.23%
CAA-IU
  
 4.90%
PTE-UC
  
 1.32%
PDP
  
 1.23%
Others
  
 1.53%
Blank ballots
  
 1.44%
Parliamentary seats
PSOE
  
 40.30%
PAR
  
 28.36%
AP
  
 19.40%
CDS
  
 8.96%
CAA-IU
  
 2.99%

Results by province

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Compared to the People's Coalition results in the 1983 election.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Compared to the Communist Party of Spain results in the 1983 election.

References

  1. ↑ "Law 1/1987, of 31 March, electoral of the Autonomous Community of Aragon".
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