Castilian-Leonese regional election, 1987
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All 84 seats in the Cortes of Castile and León 43 seats needed for a majority | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Registered |
1,997,693  0.4% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Turnout |
1,461,389 (73.2%)3.2 pp | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1987 Castilian-Leonese regional election was held on Wednesday, 10 June 1987, to elect the 2nd Cortes of the Autonomous Community of Castile and León. All 84 seats in the Cortes 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 number of seats in the regional Courts was determined by the population count. For the 1987 election, the Courts size was set to 84 seats. All Courts members were elected in 9 multi-member districts, corresponding to Castile and León's nine provinces, using the D'Hondt method and a closed-list proportional representation system. Each district was entitled to an initial minimum of 3 seats, with 1 additional seat per each 45,000 inhabitants or fraction greater than 22,500. For the 1987 election, seats were distributed as follows: Avila (7), Burgos (11), Leon (15), Palencia (7), Salamanca (11), Segovia (6), Soria (5), Valladolid (14) and Zamora (8).
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
Individual poll results are listed in the table 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 with its background shaded in the leading party's colour. In the instance of a tie, the figures with the highest percentages are shaded. in the case of seat projections, they are displayed in bold and in a different font. The lead column on the right shows the percentage-point difference between the two parties with the highest figures. 43 seats were required for an absolute majority in the Cortes of Castile and León.
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SI | Lead |
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| 1987 regional election | 10 Jun 1987 | N/A | 73.2 | 34.0 32 |
34.4 32 |
19.4 18 |
3.8 0 |
2.4 1 |
1.3 1 |
0.4 |
| Junta of Castile and León[p 1] | 27 May 1987 | ? | ? | ? 34/36 |
? 29/30 |
? 19/20 |
– | ? 1/2 |
– | ? |
| Demoscopia/El País[p 2] | 22–26 May 1987 | ? | ? | 29.4 28/31 |
36.8 33/35 |
21.3 18/20 |
5.3 1 |
2.0 1 |
– | 7.4 |
| 1986 general election | 22 Jun 1986 | N/A | 72.8 | 38.8 36 |
35.8 34 |
17.5 14 |
2.5 0 |
*[lower-roman 1] | – | 3.0 |
| 1987 regional election | 10 Jun 1987 | N/A | 70.0 | 44.4 42 |
39.7 39 |
6.0 2 |
2.4 0 |
*[lower-roman 1] | – | 4.7 |
Results
Overall
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| Parties and coalitions | Popular vote | Seats | ||||
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| Votes | % | ±pp | Won | +/− | ||
| People's Alliance (AP)1 | 493,488 | 34.36 | –5.30 | 32 | –7 | |
| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) | 488,469 | 34.01 | –10.37 | 32 | –10 | |
| Democratic and Social Centre (CDS) | 278,253 | 19.37 | +13.40 | 18 | +16 | |
| United Left (IU)2 | 54,676 | 3.81 | +1.44 | 0 | ±0 | |
| People's Democratic Party (PDP) | 35,080 | 2.44 | New | 1 | +1 | |
| Independent Solution (SI) | 19,282 | 1.34 | New | 1 | +1 | |
| Parties with less than 1.0% of the vote | 44,297 | 3.08 | — | 0 | –1 | |
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| Workers' Party of Spain–Communist Unity (PTE–UC) | 11,943 | 0.83 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| Leonesist Union (UNLE) | 8,963 | 0.62 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| Party of El Bierzo (PB) | 5,387 | 0.38 | +0.07 | 0 | ±0 | |
| Nationalist Party of Castile and León (PANCAL) | 5,190 | 0.36 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| Regionalist Party of the Leonese Country (PREPAL) | 4,090 | 0.28 | –2.19 | 0 | ±0 | |
| Humanist Platform (PH) | 3,934 | 0.27 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| Liberal Party (PL) | 2,213 | 0.15 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| Spanish Falange of the JONS (FE–JONS) | 1,828 | 0.13 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| Spanish Ruralist Party (PRE) | 749 | 0.05 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| Liberal Democratic Party (PDL) | N/A | –3.59 | 0 | –1 | ||
| Blank ballots | 22,690 | 1.58 | +0.62 | ||||||
| Total | 1,436,235 | 100.00 | 84 | ±0 | |||||
| Valid votes | 1,436,235 | 98.28 | –0.22 | ||||||
| Invalid votes | 25,154 | 1.72 | +0.22 | ||||||
| Votes cast / turnout | 1,461,389 | 73.15 | +3.19 | ||||||
| Abstentions | 536,304 | 26.85 | –3.19 | ||||||
| Registered voters | 1,997,693 | ||||||||
| Source(s): Cortes of Castile and León, historiaelectoral.com | |||||||||
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Opinion poll sources
- ↑ "Candidatos y encuestas". ABC (in Spanish). 27 May 1987.
- ↑ "Gana el que menos votos pierde" (PDF). El País (in Spanish). 4 June 1987.