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1987 Valencian regional election

Election in the Spanish region of Navarre

Field	Value
election_name	1987 Valencian regional election
country	Valencian Community
type	parliamentary
ongoing	no
previous_election	1983 Valencian regional election
previous_year	1983
next_election	1991 Valencian regional election
next_year	1991
seats_for_election	All 89 seats in the Corts Valencianes
majority_seats	45
opinion_polls	#Opinion polls
registered	2,727,703 2.7%
turnout	2,030,881 (74.5%)
1.8 pp
election_date	10 June 1987
image1	[[File:Felipe González recibe a Joan Lerma, presidente de la Generalitat valenciana.jpg	170x170px]]
leader1	Joan Lerma
party1	Socialist Party of the Valencian Country
leader_since1	31 July 1979
leaders_seat1	Valencia
last_election1	51 seats, 51.4%
seats1	42
seat_change1	9
popular_vote1	828,961
percentage1	41.3%
swing1	10.1 pp
image2	[[File:Rita Barberá 2008 (cropped).jpg	170x170px]]
leader2	Rita Barberá
party2	People's Alliance (Spain)
leader_since2	1987
leaders_seat2	Valencia
last_election2	21 seats (CP)
seats2	25
seat_change2	4
popular_vote2	476,099
percentage2	23.7%
swing2	n/a
image3	[[File:Portrait placeholder.svg	170x170px]]
leader3	José Luis Boado
party3	Democratic and Social Centre (Spain)
leader_since3	1987
leaders_seat3	Valencia
last_election3	0 seats, 1.9%
seats3	10
seat_change3	10
popular_vote3	225,663
percentage3	11.2%
swing3	9.3 pp
image4	[[File:Portrait placeholder.svg	170x170px]]
leader4	Filibert Crespo
party4	Valencian Union
leader_since4	1987
leaders_seat4	Valencia
last_election4	5 seats (CP)
seats4	6
seat_change4	1
popular_vote4	183,541
percentage4	9.1%
swing4	n/a
image5	[[File:Portrait placeholder.svg	170x170px]]
leader5	Albert Taberner
party5	IU–UPV
colour5	FF787F
leader_since5	1986
leaders_seat5	Valencia
last_election5	6 seats, 10.5%
seats5	6
seat_change5	0
popular_vote5	159,579
percentage5	7.9%
swing5	2.6 pp
map	{{Switcher
title	President
before_election	Joan Lerma
before_party	PSOE
after_election	Joan Lerma
after_party	PSOE

1.8 pp

A regional election was held in the Valencian Community on Wednesday, 10 June 1987, to elect the 2nd Corts of the autonomous community. All 89 seats in the Corts were up for election. It was held concurrently with regional elections in twelve 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.

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. 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.

Overview

Electoral system

The Corts Valencianes were the devolved, unicameral legislature of the Valencian autonomous community, having legislative power in regional matters as defined by the Spanish Constitution and the Valencian Statute of Autonomy, as well as the ability to vote confidence in or withdraw it from a President of the Government. Voting for the Corts was on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprised all nationals over 18 years of age, registered in the Valencian Community and in full enjoyment of their political rights.

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 percent of valid votes—which included blank ballots—being applied regionally. 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 on the condition that the seat to population ratio in any given province did not exceed three times that of any other.

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 the signature of at least 1 percent of the electors registered in the constituency for which they sought 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 of the election being called.

Election date

The term of the Corts Valencianes expired four years after the date of their previous election. The election Decree was required to be issued no later than the twenty-fifth day prior to the date of expiry of parliament and published on the following day in the Official Journal of the Valencian Community, with election day taking place between the fifty-fourth and the sixtieth day from publication. The previous election was held on 8 May 1983, which meant that the legislature's term would have expired on 8 May 1987. The election Decree was required to be published no later than 14 April 1987, with the election taking place no later than the sixtieth day from publication, setting the latest possible election date for the Corts on Saturday, 13 June 1987.

The Corts Valencianes could not be dissolved before the date of expiry of parliament.

Opinion polls

The table below lists voting intention estimates in reverse chronological order, showing the most recent first and using the dates when the survey fieldwork was done, as opposed to the date of publication. Where the fieldwork dates are 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. If a tie ensues, this is applied to the figures with the highest percentages. The "Lead" column on the right shows the percentage-point difference between the parties with the highest percentages in a poll. When available, seat projections determined by the polling organisations are displayed below (or in place of) the percentages in a smaller font; 45 seats were required for an absolute majority in the Corts Valencianes.

Polling firm/Commissioner	Fieldwork date	Sample size	Turnout	[[File:Logo PSOE, 1976-2001.svg	17px	link=Socialist Party of the Valencian Country	PSOE]]	[[File:Coalicion Popular logo.png	35px	link=People's Coalition (Spain)	AP–PDP–PL]]	[[File:Izquierda Unida 1986.png	35px	link=United Left of the Valencian Country	IU]]	[[File:Logotip d'Unitat del Poble Valencià (1990) - 2.svg	35px	link=Valencian People's Union	UPV]]
1987 regional election	10 Jun 1987		74.5		41.3
–			11.2
9.1
23.7
1.0
7.9
Socialist Party of the Valencian Country}}; color:white;"	17.6
title=El CDS e IU-UPV, partidos 'bisagra'	url=https://recursos.march.es/linz/I34492.pdf	language=Spanish	work=El País	date=4 June 1987	access-date=10 March 2017	archive-date=17 February 2016	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160217063006/http://recursos.march.es/linz/I34492.pdf	url-status=dead }}	22–26 May 1987	?	74		42.2
–			12.7
4.8
26.8
0.7
7.4
Socialist Party of the Valencian Country}}; color:white;"	15.4
title=Una encuesta de AP pronostica un fuerte descenso del PSOE en las municipales	url=http://hemeroteca.abc.es/nav/Navigate.exe/hemeroteca/madrid/abc/1987/04/17/018.html	language=Spanish	work=ABC	date=17 April 1987}}	16 Apr 1987	?	?		35.3	–	5.9	–	13.7	5.9	23.5	3.9	–	Socialist Party of the Valencian Country}}; color:white;"	11.8
1986 general election	22 Jun 1986		76.4		47.5
28.8
4.7
1.9
8.8
3.1
		–	Socialist Party of the Valencian Country}}; color:white;"	18.7
[1983 regional election](1983-valencian-regional-election)	8 May 1983		72.7		51.4
31.9
7.5*
3.1
1.9
			–	Socialist Party of the Valencian Country}}; color:white;"	19.5
(*) Results for Communist Party of the Valencian Country.

Results

Overall

Parties and alliances	Popular vote	Seats	Votes	%	±pp	Total	+/−
Socialist Party of the Valencian Country}}"		Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	828,961	41.28	−10.13	42	−9
People's Alliance (Spain)}}"		People's Alliance (AP)1	476,099	23.71	n/a	25	+4
Democratic and Social Centre (Spain)}}"		Democratic and Social Centre (CDS)	225,663	11.24	+9.36	10	+10
Valencian Union}}"		Valencian Union (UV)1	183,541	9.14	n/a	6	+1
United Left–Valencian People's Union}}"		United Left–Valencian People's Union (IU–UPV)2	159,579	7.95	−2.58	6	±0
Workers' Party of Spain–Communist Unity}}"		Workers' Party of Spain–Communist Unity (PTE–UC)	33,770	1.68	New	0	±0
Confederation of the Greens}}"		The Greens (LV)	22,262	1.11	New	0	±0
People's Democratic Party (Spain)}}"		People's Democratic Party–Valencian Centrists (PDP–CV)1	20,171	1.00	n/a	0	−5
	Valencian Electoral Coalition (CEV)	11,984	0.60	New	0	±0
VERDE}}"		Spanish Vertex Ecological Development Revindication (VERDE)	5,056	0.25	New	0	±0
Communist Unification of Spain}}"		Communist Unification of Spain (UCE)	4,325	0.22	New	0	±0
Valencian Nationalist Left}}"		Valencian Nationalist Left (ENV–URV)	4,175	0.21	−0.19	0	±0
Humanist Party (Spain)}}"		Humanist Platform (PH)	3,658	0.18	New	0	±0
Republican Popular Unity}}"		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}}"		Internationalist Socialist Workers' Party (POSI)	1,884	0.09	New	0	±0
Liberal Union (Spain, 1983)}}"		Liberal Union (UL)1	n/a	n/a	n/a	0	−1
Blank ballots	21,497	1.07	+0.38
Total	2,008,229		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
Sources
{{hidden	ta1=left	title=Footnotes:	content={{ubl	1 Within the People's Coalition–Valencian Union alliance in the 1983 election.	2 United Left–Valencian People's Union results are compared to the combined totals of Communist Party of the Valencian Country and Valencian People's Union in the 1983 election.	3 Republican Popular Unity results are compared to Popular Struggle Coalition totals in the 1983 election.}}}}

Distribution by constituency

Constituency	PSOE	AP	CDS	UV	IU–UPV	Socialist Party of the Valencian Country}}"		People's Alliance (Spain)}}"		Democratic and Social Centre (Spain)}}"
Alicante	Socialist Party of the Valencian Country}}; color:white;"	42.6	14	28.0	9	14.3	4	0.8	−	6.8	2
Castellón	Socialist Party of the Valencian Country}}; color:white;"	40.9	11	30.7	8	11.5	3	3.1	−	5.5	1
Valencia	Socialist Party of the Valencian Country}}; color:white;"	40.6	17	19.9	8	9.5	3	14.9	6	9.1	3
Total	Socialist Party of the Valencian Country}}; color:white;"	41.3	42	23.7	25	11.2	10	9.1	6	7.9	6

Aftermath

Candidate	Ballot →	21 July 1987	Required majority →	Socialist Party of the Valencian Country}};"
45 out of 89
Joan Lerma (PSOE)	{{Collapsible list	title = Yes	• PSOE (42)	• IU–UPV (6)
{{Collapsible list	title = No	• AP (25)
{{Collapsible list	title = Abstentions	• CDS (10)
{{Collapsible list	title = Absentees	• UV (6)
Rita Barberá (AP)	{{Collapsible list	title = Yes	• AP (25)
{{Collapsible list	title = No	• PSOE (42)	• CDS (10)	• IU–UPV (6)
Abstentions
{{Collapsible list	title = Absentees	• UV (6)
Sources

Notes

References

;Opinion poll sources

;Other

References

"Eleccions a les Corts Valencianes (1983 - 2019)".
(1 July 1982). "Statute of Autonomy of the Valencian Community of 1982".
(31 March 1987). "Valencian Electoral Law of 1987".
(19 June 1985). "General Electoral System Organic Law of 1985".
"Representation of the people Institutional Act". Central Electoral Commission.
"Corts Valencianes election, 1987". Election Data.
"Electoral Results. Electoral Data - Regional Election: 1987". Corts Valencianes.
(22 July 1987). "El socialista Joan Lerma, reelegido presidente de la Generalitat valencina". El País.

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