Murcian parliamentary election, 1987

Murcian parliamentary election, 1987
Region of Murcia
10 June 1987

All 45 seats in the Regional Assembly of Murcia
23 seats needed for a majority
Registered 702,068 Increase4.0%
Turnout 512,444 (73.0%)
Increase4.5 pp
  First party Second party
 
Leader Carlos Collado Juan Ramón Calero
Party PSOE AP
Leader since 31 March 1984 1987
Last election 26 seats, 52.2% 16 seats, 35.4%[lower-alpha 1]
Seats won 25 16
Seat change Decrease1 ±0
Popular vote 221,377 159,566
Percentage 43.7% 31.5%
Swing Decrease8.5 pp Decrease3.9 pp

  Third party Fourth party
 
Leader Ángel González Pedro Antonio Ríos
Party CDS IU
Leader since 1987 1983
Last election 0 seats, 1.1% 1 seat, 7.0%[lower-alpha 2]
Seats won 3 1
Seat change Increase3 ±0
Popular vote 60,419 37,757
Percentage 11.9% 7.5%
Swing Increase10.8 pp Increase7.5 pp

President before election

Carlos Collado
PSOE

Elected President

Carlos Collado
PSOE

The 1987 Murcian parliamentary election was held on Wednesday, 10 June 1987, to elect the 2nd Regional Assembly of Murcia, the regional legislature of the Spanish autonomous community of the Region of Murcia. At stake were all seats in the Assembly, determining the President of the Region of Murcia. The number of members increased from 43 to 45 compared to the previous election.

The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) emerged as the largest party in the Assembly, but lost nearly 9 percentage points, falling from over 52% to just below 44%. However, Murcia's division into several electoral districts allowed the PSOE to minimize its loses, losing 1 seat from 1983 but still retaining a comfortable absolute majority in the Assembly. The People's Alliance (AP) stood alone in this election, having previously been a founding member of the late People's Coalition. Despite its former allies, the People's Democratic Party (PDP) and the Liberal Party (PL) not running for election in Murcia unlike what they did in other communities, AP still lost votes to the growing Democratic and Social Centre (CDS), a party founded by former Spanish Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez, which broke into the Assembly with 11.9% of the share and 3 seats.

Socialist Carlos Collado, who had accessed power in 1984 after the resignation of former regional premier Andrés Hernández Ros, was re-elected as President of Murcia for his first full-term in office.

Electoral system

The number of seats in the Regional Assembly of Murcia was set to a fixed-number of 45. All Assembly members were elected in 5 multi-member districts using the D'Hondt method and a closed-list proportional representation system. Unlike other regions, districts did not coincide with provincial limits, being determined by law as such:

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. This meant that in the case a list polled above 5% in one or more of the districts but below 5% in the community totals, it would remain outside of the seat apportionment.[1]

Results

Overall

Summary of the 10 June 1987 Murcian Regional Assembly election results
Party Vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Won +/−
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) 221,377 43.71 Decrease8.52 25 Decrease1
People's Alliance (AP)[lower-alpha 1] 159,566 31.50 Decrease3.92 16 ±0
Democratic and Social Centre (CDS) 60,419 11.93 Increase10.79 3 Increase3
United Left (IU)[lower-alpha 2] 37,757 7.45 Increase0.43 1 ±0
Cantonal Party (PCAN) 17,212 3.40 Increase0.57 0 ±0
Murcian Regionalist Party (PRM) 1,976 0.39 New 0 ±0
Workers' Party of Spain–Communist Unity (PTE-UC) 1,918 0.38 New 0 ±0
Humanist Platform (PH) 1,429 0.28 New 0 ±0
Blank ballots 4,862 0.96 Increase0.39
Total 506,516 100.00 45 Increase2
Valid votes 506,516 98.84 Decrease0.15
Invalid votes 5,928 1.16 Increase0.15
Votes cast / turnout 512,444 72.99 Increase4.52
Abstentions 189,624 27.01 Decrease4.52
Registered voters 702,068
Source(s): Argos Information Portal
Vote share
PSOE
 
43.71%
AP
 
31.50%
CDS
 
11.93%
IU
 
7.45%
PCAN
 
3.40%
Others
 
1.05%
Blank ballots
 
0.96%
Parliamentary seats
PSOE
 
55.56%
AP
 
35.56%
CDS
 
6.67%
IU
 
2.22%

Notes

  1. 1 2 Compared to the People's Coalition results in the 1983 election.
  2. 1 2 Compared to the Communist Party of Spain results in the 1983 election.

References

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