Spanish local elections, 1987

Spanish local elections, 1987
Spain
10 June 1987

65,577 seats in 8,063 local city councils
1,028 seats in 38 provincial deputations
153 seats in 3 Juntas Generales in the Basque Country
137 seats in 7 cabildos in the Canary Islands
Registered 28,442,348 Increase3.5%
Turnout 19,744,334 (69.4%)
Increase4.3 pp
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Felipe González Antonio Hernández Mancha Adolfo Suárez
Party PSOE AP CDS
Leader since 13 October 1974 8 February 1987 29 July 1982
Last election 23,325 seats, 43.0% 20,671 seats, 25.6% 1,299 seats, 1.7%
Seats won 23,241 16,312 5,952
Seat change Decrease84 Decrease4,359 Increase4,653
Popular vote 7,229,782 3,972,359 1,902,293
Percentage 37.1% 20.4% 9.8%
Swing Decrease5.9 pp Decrease5.2 pp Increase8.1 pp

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Jordi Pujol Gerardo Iglesias Javier Rupérez
Party CiU IU PDP
Leader since 19 September 1978 10 December 1982 May 1987
Last election 3,215 seats, 4.2% 2,529 seats, 8.5% Did not contest
Seats won 4,350 2,315 1,520
Seat change Increase1,135 Decrease214 Increase1,520
Popular vote 1,004,115 1,399,364 319,519
Percentage 5.2% 7.2% 1.6%
Swing Increase1.0 pp Decrease1.3 pp New party

The 1987 Spanish local elections were held on Wednesday, 10 June 1987, throughout all 8,063 Spain municipalities, simultaneously with regional elections in 13 of the 17 autonomous communities—all except for Andalusia, the Basque Country, Catalonia, and Galicia. All 65,577 councillors were up for election, as well as 153 seats of the 3 Basque Juntas Generales, 137 seats of the 7 Canarian cabildos and the indirectly-elected 1,028 seats of the 38 provincial deputations.

Electoral system

Local councils

The number of seats in each city council was determined by the population count. According to the municipal electoral law, the population-seat relationship on each municipality was to be established on the following scale:

Population Seats
<250 5
251–1,000 7
1,001–2,000 9
2,001–5,000 11
5,001–10,000 13
10,001–20,000 17
20,001–50,000 21
50,001–100,000 25

Additionally, for populations greater than 100,000, 1 seat was to be added per each 100,000 inhabitants or fraction, according to the most updated census data, and adding 1 more seat if the resulting seat count gives an even number.

All city council members were elected in single multi-member districts, consisting of the municipality's territory, 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 municipality (which include blank ballots—for none of the above) were entitled to enter the seat distribution.

The Spanish municipal electoral law established a clause stating that, if no candidate was to gather an absolute majority of votes to be elected as mayor of a municipality, the candidate of the most-voted party would be automatically elected to the post.[1]

Provincial deputations

The provincial deputations were elected indirectly by a council which in turn was elected from the judicial districts. The apportionment of deputies per province depends on population and was given as follows:

Population Seats
<500,000 25
500,001–1,000,000 27
1,000,001–3,500,000 31
>3,500,000 51

References

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