Valencian regional election, 1987
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All 89 seats in the Corts Valencianes 45 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Registered | 2,727,703 2.7% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2,030,881 (74.5%) 1.8 pp | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Constituency results map for the Corts Valencianes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1987 Valencian regional election was held on Wednesday, 10 June 1987, to elect the 2nd Corts of the Valencian Community. All 89 seats in the Corts 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), suffering from a strong loss of popular support, lost 9 seats together with the absolute majority it had achieved in 1983. However, the PSOE remained as the largest party by a great margin due to the splitting up of the vote between the opposition parties. Incumbent President Joan Lerma was able to retain government thanks to the support of the IU-UPV alliance, and went on to form a minority government.
The People's Coalition had broken up after the 1986 general election. As a result, the People's Alliance (AP) and the People's Democratic Party (PDP) contested the election separately. AP, with future Mayoress of Valencia Rita Barberá as regional candidate, scored slightly less than 24% of the vote and lost 2 seats compared to the combined totals for the AP-PDP-UL coalition in 1983, while the PDP was swept out of the Courts entirely.[1]
On the other hand, the election saw an increase of support for minor parties: Centrist Democratic and Social Centre (CDS) experienced a significant increase of its popular support and became the third political force in the region with over 10% of the share. The regionalist right-wing Valencian Union (UV), which ran separately for the first time, won 6 seats to the 5 it had obtained within the People's Coalition in 1983.[1] The Communist Party of Spain (PCE), which had formed the electoral alliance United Left (IU) in April 1986 with other smaller left-wing parties across Spain, stood in coalition with the regional Valencian People's Unity (UPV) and won 6 seats.
Electoral system
The 89 members of the Corts Valencianes 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 regionally. Parties not reaching the threshold were not taken into consideration for seat distribution. Seats were allocated to constituencies, corresponding to the provinces of Alicante, Castellón and Valencia. Each constituency was entitled to an initial minimum of 20 seats, with the remaining 29 allocated among the constituencies in proportion to their populations.[2][3] Voting was on the basis of universal suffrage, with all nationals over eighteen, registered in the Valencian Community 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 1 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.[2][4][5]
Elections were fixed to be held within 60 days from the legislature's expiry date, which would take place four years after the previous election.[3][4]
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. 45 seats were required for an absolute majority in the Corts Valencianes.
Polling firm/Commissioner | Fieldwork date | Sample size | Turnout | Lead | |||||||
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1987 regional election | 10 Jun 1987 | N/A | 74.5 | 41.3 42 |
23.7 25 |
7.9 6 |
11.2 10 |
9.1 6 |
1.0 0 |
17.6 | |
Demoscopia/El País[p 1] | 22–26 May 1987 | ? | ? | 42.2 43 |
26.8 30 |
7.4 5 |
12.7 11 |
4.8 0 |
0.7 0 |
15.4 | |
Sofemasa/AP[p 2][p 3] | 17 Apr 1987 | ? | ? | 35.3 | 23.5 | 5.9 | – | 13.7 | 5.9 | 3.9 | 11.8 |
1986 general election | 22 Jun 1986 | N/A | 76.4 | 47.5 49 |
28.8 32 |
4.7 0 |
1.9 0 |
8.8 8 |
3.1 0 |
– | 18.7 |
1983 regional election | 8 May 1983 | N/A | 72.7 | 51.4 51 |
31.9 32 |
7.5 6 |
3.1 0 |
1.9 0 |
– | – | 19.5 |
Results
Overall
Parties and coalitions | Popular vote | Seats | ||||
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Votes | % | ±pp | Won | +/− | ||
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) | 828,961 | 41.28 | –10.13 | 42 | –9 | |
People's Alliance (AP)1 | 476,099 | 23.71 | –3.20 | 25 | –2 | |
Democratic and Social Centre (CDS) | 225,663 | 11.24 | +9.36 | 10 | +10 | |
Valencian Union (UV)1 | 183,541 | 9.14 | +4.16 | 6 | +1 | |
United Left–Valencian People's Union (IU–UPV)2 | 159,579 | 7.95 | –2.58 | 6 | ±0 | |
Workers' Party of Spain–Communist Unity (PTE–UC) | 33,770 | 1.68 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
The Greens (LV) | 22,262 | 1.11 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
People's Democratic Party–Valencian Centrists (PDP–CV) | 20,171 | 1.00 | New | 0 | ±0 |
Parties with less than 1.0% of the vote | 36,686 | 1.83 | — | 0 | ±0 | |
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Valencian Electoral Coalition (CEV) | 11,984 | 0.60 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
Spanish Vertex Ecological Development Revindication (VERDE) | 5,056 | 0.25 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
Communist Unification of Spain (UCE) | 4,325 | 0.22 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
Valencian Nationalist Left (ENV–URV) | 4,175 | 0.21 | –0.19 | 0 | ±0 | |
Humanist Platform (PH) | 3,658 | 0.18 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
Republican Popular Unity (UPR)3 | 3,309 | 0.16 | +0.02 | 0 | ±0 | |
Left Front (FI) | 2,295 | 0.11 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
Internationalist Socialist Workers' Party (POSI) | 1,884 | 0.09 | New | 0 | ±0 |
Blank ballots | 21,497 | 1.07 | +0.38 | ||||||
Total | 2,008,229 | 100.00 | 89 | ±0 | |||||
Valid votes | 2,008,229 | 98.88 | –0.09 | ||||||
Invalid votes | 22,652 | 1.12 | +0.09 | ||||||
Votes cast / turnout | 2,030,881 | 74.45 | +1.71 | ||||||
Abstentions | 696,822 | 25.55 | –1.71 | ||||||
Registered voters | 2,727,703 | ||||||||
Source(s): Corts Valencianes, historiaelectoral.com, Argos Information Portal | |||||||||
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Distribution by constituency
Constituency | PSOE | AP | CDS | UV | IU–UPV | |||||
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% | S | % | S | % | S | % | S | % | S | |
Alicante | 42.6 | 14 | 28.0 | 9 | 14.3 | 4 | 0.8 | − | 6.8 | 2 |
Castellón | 40.9 | 11 | 30.7 | 8 | 11.5 | 3 | 3.1 | − | 5.5 | 1 |
Valencia | 40.6 | 17 | 19.9 | 8 | 9.5 | 3 | 14.9 | 6 | 9.1 | 3 |
Total | 41.3 | 42 | 23.7 | 25 | 11.2 | 10 | 9.1 | 6 | 7.9 | 6 |
Post-election
Investiture voting
Date | Candidate | Total | Notes | |
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21 July 1987 Majority required: Absolute (45/89) |
Joan Lerma (PSPV) | 48 / 89 |
PSPV (42), IU-UPV (6) | |
Rita Barberá (AP) | 25 / 89 |
AP (25) | ||
Abstentions | 10 / 89 |
CDS (10) | ||
Other | 6 / 89 |
Did not vote: UV (6) | ||
Source: El País |
Opinion poll sources
- ↑ "El CDS e IU-UPV, partidos 'bisagra'" (PDF). El País (in Spanish). 4 June 1987.
- ↑ "Una encuesta de AP pronostica un fuerte descenso del PSOE en las municipales". ABC (in Spanish). 17 April 1987.
- ↑ "Notable descenso del PSOE en los próximos comicios, según una encuesta encargada por AP". ABC Sevilla (in Spanish). 17 April 1987.
References
- 1 2 Courts Valencianes election results, historiaelectoral.com. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
- 1 2 Valencian Electoral Law of 1987, Law No. 2 of March 31, 1987 Official Journal of the Valencian Community (in Spanish). Retrieved on 17 March 2017.
- 1 2 Statute of Autonomy of the Valencian Community of 1982, Organic Law No. 1 of July 1, 1982 Official State Gazette (in Spanish). Retrieved on 17 March 2017.
- 1 2 General Electoral System Organic Law of 1985, Organic Law No. 5 of June 19, 1985 Official State Gazette (in Spanish). Retrieved on 28 December 2016.
- ↑ "Representation of the people Institutional Act". juntaelectoralcentral.es. Central Electoral Commission. Retrieved 16 June 2017.