Extremaduran regional election, 1987

Extremaduran regional election, 1987

10 June 1987
All 65 seats in the Assembly of Extremadura 33 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered	808,654 2.9%
Turnout	601,615 (74.4%) 2.5 pp
First party Second party Third party   Leader Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra Adolfo Díaz-Ambrona Tomás Martín Tamayo Party PSOE AP CDS Leader since 20 December 1982 1976 1983 Leader's seat Badajoz Badajoz Badajoz Last election 35 seats, 53.0% 20 seats, 30.1% 0 seats, 0.8% Seats won 34 17 8 Seat change 1 3 8 Popular vote 292,935 144,117 73,572 Percentage 49.2% 24.2% 12.4% Swing 3.8 pp 5.9 pp 11.6 pp   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader Pedro Cañada Manuel Pareja Party EU IU Leader since 10 December 1980 1983 Leader's seat Cáceres Badajoz Last election 6 seats, 8.5% 4 seats, 6.5% Seats won 4 2 Seat change 2 2 Popular vote 34,606 32,240 Percentage 5.8% 5.4% Swing 2.7 pp 1.1 pp
Constituency results map for the Assembly of Extremadura
President before election Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra PSOE Elected President Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra PSOE

The 1987 Extremaduran regional election was held on Wednesday, 10 June 1987, to elect the 2nd Assembly of the Autonomous Community of Extremadura. All 65 seats in the Assembly 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 Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) won the election with a new absolute majority of seats, albeit losing 1 seat from its 1983 result. The People's Alliance (AP), which had undergone an internal crisis after the breakup of the People's Coalition in 1986, lost support and fell from the coalition's 30% of the share to 24%, losing 3 seats as a result.

The main election winner was the centrist Democratic and Social Centre (CDS), a party led by the former Spanish Prime Minister Adolfo Suarez, which entered the Assembly for the first with 8 seats and 12% of the vote, becoming the only party within the Assembly that made gains, as all others (including regionalist United Extremadura (EU)) lost votes. United Left, an electoral coalition comprising the Communist Party of Spain and other left-wing parties, also lost 2 seats.

Electoral system

The 65 members of the Assembly of Extremadura were elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with a threshold of 5 per 100 of valid votes—which included blank ballots—being applied in each constituency. Parties not reaching the threshold were not taken into consideration for seat distribution. Alternatively, parties failing to reach the threshold in one of the constituencies would also be entitled to enter the seat distribution as long as they ran candidates in both districts and reached 5 per 100 regionally. Seats were allocated to constituencies, corresponding to the provinces of Badajoz and Cáceres. Each constituency was entitled to an initial minimum of 20 seats, with the remaining 25 allocated among the constituencies in proportion to their populations.^[1][2] Voting was on the basis of universal suffrage, with all nationals over eighteen, registered in Extremadura and in full enjoyment of all political rights entitled to vote.

The electoral law provided that parties, federations, coalitions and groupings of electors were allowed to present lists of candidates. However, groupings of electors were required to secure at least the signature of 2 per 100 of the electors entered in electoral register of the constituency for which they were seeking election. Electors were barred from signing for more than one list of candidates. Concurrently, parties and federations intending to enter in coalition to take part jointly at an election were required to inform the relevant Electoral Commission within ten days from the election call.^[1][3][4]

Elections were fixed to be held within 30 to 60 days from the legislature's expiry date, which would take place four years after the previous election. Additionally, the chamber was to be automatically dissolved and a snap election called if an investiture process failed to elect a regional President within a two-month period from the first ballot, with elected deputies merely serving out what remained of their four-year terms.^[2][3]

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 that 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. 33 seats were required for an absolute majority in the Assembly of Extremadura.

Polling firm/Commissioner	Fieldwork date	Sample size	Turnout						Lead
1987 regional election	10 Jun 1987	N/A	74.4	49.2 34	24.2 17	5.8 4	5.4 2	12.4 8	25.0
Demoscopia/El País[p 1]	22–26 May 1987	?	?	49.1 35	27.5 17	7.2 6	3.4 1	9.7 6	21.6
Sofemasa/AP[p 2][p 3]	17 Apr 1987	?	?	43.5	24.1	–	4.8	14.5	19.4
1986 general election	22 Jun 1986	N/A	73.6	55.9 39	26.7 19	2.7 1	3.9 1	8.0 5	29.2
1983 regional election	8 May 1983	N/A	71.9	53.0 36	30.1 20	8.5 6	6.5 4	0.8 0	22.9

Results

Overall

← Summary of the 10 June 1987 Assembly of Extremadura election results →

Parties and coalitions		Popular vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Won	+/−
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	292,935	49.18	–3.84	34	–1
	People's Alliance (AP)1	144,117	24.19	–5.91	17	–3
	Democratic and Social Centre (CDS)	73,572	12.35	+11.56	8	+8
	United Extremadura (EU)	34,606	5.81	–2.67	4	–2
	United Left (IU)2	32,240	5.41	–1.07	2	–2

Distribution by constituency

Opinion poll sources

References