Castilian-Manchegan regional election, 1987

Castilian-Manchegan regional election, 1987

10 June 1987
All 47 seats in the Cortes of Castilla-La Mancha 24 seats needed for a majority
Registered	1,259,742 2.4%
Turnout	950,262 (75.4%) 2.1 pp
First party Second party Third party   Leader José Bono Arturo García-Tizón Francisco Ruiz Castillo Party PSOE AP CDS Leader since 25 March 1983 23 June 1985 1987 Leader's seat Toledo Toledo Guadalajara Last election 23 seats, 46.7% 21 seats, 40.9% 0 seats, 3.0% Seats won 25 18 4 Seat change 2 3 4 Popular vote 435,121 319,978 98,539 Percentage 46.3% 34.1% 10.5% Swing 0.4 pp 6.8 pp 7.5 pp
Constituency results map for the Cortes of Castilla-La Mancha
President before election José Bono PSOE Elected President José Bono PSOE

The 1987 Castilian-Manchegan regional election was held on Wednesday, 10 June 1987, to elect the 2nd Cortes of the Autonomous Community of Castilla-La Mancha. All 47 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.

The election was won by the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), which gained 2 seats and enlarged its absolute majority from 52% to 53% of the seats; Castilla-La Mancha thus became one of the few autonomous communities in the 1987 regional elections where the PSOE increased its parliamentary representation. The People's Alliance (AP), on the other hand, won just 34% of the share and 18 seats, after the People's Coalition had broken up in 1986. Both former AP partners, the People's Democratic Party (PDP) and the Liberal Party (PL), stood separately but failed to attract significant support.

The Democratic and Social Centre (CDS), a party founded by former Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez, entered the Courts for its first and only time, setting a record result for third parties in future regional elections with 4 seats and over 10% of the share. United Left (IU), an electoral coalition between the Communist Party of Spain and other left-wing parties formed in 1986, failed to gain any seats and dropped from the 6.9% it had in 1983 to 5.4%.

Electoral system

The number of seats in the Castilla-La Mancha Courts was set to a fixed-number of 47. All Courts members were elected in 5 multi-member districts, corresponding to Castilla-La Mancha's five provinces, using the D'Hondt method and a closed-list proportional representation system. Each district was assigned a fixed set of seats, distributed as follows: Albacete (10), Ciudad Real (11), Cuenca (8), Guadalajara (7) and Toledo (11).

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

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. 24 seats were required for an absolute majority in the Courts of Castilla-La Mancha.

Results

Overall

← Summary of the 10 June 1987 Cortes of Castilla-La Mancha election results →

Parties and coalitions		Popular vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Won	+/−
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	435,121	46.33	–0.37	25	+2
	People's Alliance (AP)1	319,978	34.07	–6.85	18	–3
	Democratic and Social Centre (CDS)	98,539	10.49	+7.47	4	+4
	United Left (IU)2	50,366	5.36	–1.50	0	±0
	People's Democratic Party (PDP)	15,863	1.69	New	0	±0

Distribution by constituency

References

Elections in Castilla-La Mancha
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