Riojan regional election, 1987

Riojan regional election, 1987
La Rioja (Spain)
10 June 1987

All 33 seats in the Parliament of La Rioja
17 seats needed for a majority
Registered 201,738 3.5%
Turnout 146,258 (72.5%)
2.3 pp

  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Alicia Izaguirre Joaquín Espert Manuel Fernández Ilarraza
Party PSOE AP CDS
Leader since 1987 1983 1987
Leader's seat La Rioja La Rioja La Rioja
Last election 18 seats, 47.2% 15 seats, 40.0% 0 seats, 2.4%
Seats won 14 13 4
Seat change 4 2 4
Popular vote 57,178 50,179 15,640
Percentage 39.6% 34.8% 10.8%
Swing 7.6 pp 5.2 pp 8.4 pp

  Fourth party
 
Leader Luis Javier Rodríguez
Party PRP
Leader since 6 December 1982
Leader's seat La Rioja
Last election 2 seats, 7.5%
Seats won 2
Seat change 0
Popular vote 9,212
Percentage 6.4%
Swing 1.1 pp

President before election

José María de Miguel
PSOE

Elected President

Joaquín Espert
AP

The 1987 Riojan regional election was held on Wednesday, 10 June 1987, to elect the 2nd Parliament of the Autonomous Community of La Rioja. All 33 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.

The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) came first by winning the most votes and seats, but lost its absolute majority and suffered an important loss of support from 1983. As a result, a coalition government was formed between the second and fourth-most voted parties: the People's Alliance (AP), which lost votes and seats from the previous election as a result of the breakup of the People's Coalition, and the Progressive Riojan Party (PRP). Together, they had 15 seats, one more than the PSOE, and were able to get AP leader, Joaquín Espert, elected thanks to the decisive abstention of the Democratic and Social Centre (CDS), which became the third political force in the community with 4 seats and 10.8% of the share.

The AP-PRP coalition would only last until January 1989, however; from that date, the PRP would leave the coalition, resulting in a minority AP government until 1990, when a motion of censure against Espert would result in the PSOE returning to government, thanks to the vote of the PRP deputies and a CDS deserter.

Electoral system

The number of seats in the Parliament of La Rioja was set to a fixed-number of 33. All Parliament members were elected in a single multi-member district, consisting of the Community's territory (the province of La Rioja), using the D'Hondt method and a closed-list proportional representation system.

Voting was on the basis of universal suffrage in a secret ballot. Only lists polling above 5% of valid votes in all of the community (which include blank ballotsfor none of the above) were entitled to enter the seat distribution.[1]

Results

Summary of the 10 June 1987 Parliament of La Rioja election results
Parties and coalitions Popular vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Won +/−
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) 57,178 39.64 –7.53 14 –4
People's Alliance (AP)1 50,179 34.78 –5.20 13 –2
Democratic and Social Centre (CDS) 15,640 10.84 +8.43 4 +4
Progressive Riojan Party (PRP) 9,212 6.39 –1.07 2 ±0
People's Democratic Party (PDP) 4,721 3.27 New 0 ±0
United Left (IU)2 3,478 2.41 +0.24 0 ±0
Workers' Party of Spain–Communist Unity (PTE–UC) 1,400 0.97 New 0 ±0
Blank ballots 2,452 1.70 +0.89
Total 144,260 100.00 33 –2
Valid votes 144,260 98.63 –0.20
Invalid votes 1,998 1.37 +0.20
Votes cast / turnout 146,258 72.50 +2.26
Abstentions 55,480 27.50 –2.26
Registered voters 201,738
Source(s): Argos Information Portal, historiaelectoral.com
Popular vote
PSOE
 
39.64%
AP
 
34.78%
CDS
 
10.84%
PRP
 
6.39%
PDP
 
3.27%
IU
 
2.41%
PTE–UC
 
0.97%
Blank ballots
 
1.70%
Seats
PSOE
 
42.42%
AP
 
39.39%
CDS
 
12.12%
PRP
 
6.06%

References

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