Canarian regional election, 1987

Canarian regional election, 1987

10 June 1987
All 60 seats in the Parliament of the Canaries 31 seats needed for a majority
Registered	1,002,775 8.3%
Turnout	676,792 (67.5%) 5.0 pp
First party Second party Third party   Leader Jerónimo Saavedra Lorenzo Olarte Miguel Cabrera Pérez Party PSOE CDS AIC Leader since 1977 1983 1985 Last election 27 seats, 41.2% 6 seats, 7.2% 2 seats, 1.1% Seats won 21 13 11 Seat change 6 7 9 Popular vote 185,749 130,297 134,667 Percentage 27.8% 19.5% 20.1% Swing 13.4 pp 12.3 pp 19.0 pp
Island-level units won by PSOE (red), AIC (blue) and AM (lightblue)
President before election Jerónimo Saavedra PSOE Elected President Fernando Fernández Martín CDS

The 1987 Canarian regional election was held on Wednesday, 10 June 1987, to elect the 2nd Parliament of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands. All 60 seats in the Parliament were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in 12 other autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain, as well as the 1987 European Parliament election.

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 Parliament of the Canaries election results →

Parties and coalitions		Popular vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Won	+/−
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	185,749	27.77	–14.32	21	–6
	Canarian Independent Groups (AIC)1	134,667	20.13	+19.07	11	+9
	Democratic and Social Centre (CDS)	130,297	19.48	+12.30	13	+7
	People's Alliance (AP)2	74,767	11.18	–17.58	6	–11
	Canarian Assembly–Canarian Nationalist Left (AC–INC)3	46,229	6.91	–1.32	2	±0
	United Canarian Left (ICU)4	40,837	6.10	+1.72	2	+1
	Centre Canarian Union (UCC)5	15,520	2.32	–1.97	0	–1
	People's Democratic Party–Canarian Centrists (PDP–CC)	13,274	1.98	New	0	±0
	National Congress of the Canaries (CNC)	8,744	1.31	New	0	±0

References

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