Valencia City Council election, 1987

Valencia City Council election, 1987
10 June 1987
All 33 seats in the City Council of Valencia
17 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered 551,507 0.3%
Turnout 394,449 (71.5%)
1.6 pp

  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Ricard Pérez Casado Vicente González Lizondo Martín Luis Quirós
Party PSOE UV AP
Leader since 5 October 1979 30 August 1982 1987
Last election 18 seats, 48.8% 2 seats (CP–UV)[lower-alpha 1] 11 seats (CP–UV)[lower-alpha 1]
Seats won 13 7 7
Seat change 5 5 4
Popular vote 143,037 77,353 73,830
Percentage 36.8% 19.9% 19.0%
Swing 12.0 pp n/a n/a
  Fourth party Fifth party
 
Leader Manuel del Hierro Carmen Arjona
Party CDS IU–UPV
Leader since 1987 1986
Last election 0 seats, 1.9% 2 seats, 9.1%[lower-alpha 2]
Seats won 4 2
Seat change 4 0
Popular vote 44,133 30,963
Percentage 11.3% 8.0%
Swing 9.4 pp 1.1 pp
District results map for the City Council of Valencia
Mayor before election

Ricard Pérez Casado
PSOE

 Elected Mayor

Ricard Pérez Casado
PSOE

The 1987 Valencia City Council election, also the 1987 Valencia municipal election, was held on Wednesday, 10 June 1987, to elect the 3rd City Council of the municipality of Valencia. All 33 seats in the City Council were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in thirteen autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain, as well as the 1987 European Parliament election.

Electoral system

The City Council of Valencia (Valencian: Ajuntament de Valencia, Spanish: Ayuntamiento de Valencia) was the top-tier administrative and governing body of the municipality of Valencia, composed of the mayor, the government council and the elected plenary assembly. Voting for the local assembly was on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprised all nationals over eighteen, registered in the municipality of Valencia and in full enjoyment of their political rights, as well as resident non-nationals whose country of origin allowed Spanish nationals to vote in their own elections by virtue of a treaty.[1][2][3]

Local councillors 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. Parties not reaching the threshold were not taken into consideration for seat distribution.[1][2][3] Councillors were allocated to municipal councils based on the following scale:

Population Councillors
<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
>100,001 +1 per each 100,000 inhabitants or fraction
+1 if total is an even number

The mayor was indirectly elected by the plenary assembly. A legal clause required that mayoral candidates earned the vote of an absolute majority of councillors, or else the candidate of the most-voted party in the assembly was to be automatically appointed to the post. In case of a tie, a toss-up would determine the appointee.[3]

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 a determined amount of the electors registered in the municipality for which they sought election. For the case of Valencia, as its population was between 300,001 and 1,000,000, at least 5,000 signatures were required. 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.[1][2]

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 given poll. When available, seat projections are also displayed below the voting estimates in a smaller font. 17 seats were required for an absolute majority in the City Council of Valencia.

Results

← Summary of the 10 June 1987 City Council of Valencia election results →
Parties and coalitions Popular vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Total +/−
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) 143,03736.75–12.08 13–5
Valencian Union (UV)1 77,35319.87n/a 7+5
People's Alliance (AP)1 73,83018.97n/a 7–4
Democratic and Social Centre (CDS) 44,13311.34+9.41 4+4
United Left–Valencian People's Union (IU–UPV)2 30,9637.96–1.09 2±0
Workers' Party of Spain–Communist Unity (PTE–UC) 5,6081.44New 0±0
Spanish Vertex Ecological Development Revindication (VERDE) 3,2780.84New 0±0
Valencian Electoral Coalition (CEV) 2,3700.61New 0±0
People's Democratic Party–Valencian Centrists (PDP–CV) 1,0960.28New 0±0
Humanist Platform (PH) 8790.23New 0±0
Spanish Phalanx of the CNSO (FE–JONS) 8600.22New 0±0
Communist Unification of Spain (UCE) 8000.21New 0±0
Republican Popular Unity (UPR)3 6010.15+0.01 0±0
Blank ballots 4,4061.13+0.70
Total 389,214 33±0
Valid votes 389,21498.67–0.07
Invalid votes 5,2351.33+0.07
Votes cast / turnout 394,44971.52+1.60
Abstentions 157,05828.48–1.60
Registered voters 551,507
Sources[5][6][7][8]
Popular vote
PSOE
 
 36.75%
UV
 
 19.87%
AP
 
 18.97%
CDS
 
 11.34%
IU–UPV
 
 7.96%
PTE–UC
 
 1.44%
Others
 
 2.54%
Blank ballots
 
 1.13%
Seats
PSOE
 
 39.39%
UV
 
 21.21%
AP
 
 21.21%
CDS
 
 12.12%
IU–UPV
 
 6.06%

Notes

  1. 1 2 Within the CP–UV alliance in the 1983 election.
  2. ↑ Aggregated data for PCE–PCPV and UPV in the 1983 election.

References

Opinion poll sources
  1. ↑ "El CDS e IU-UPV, partidos 'bisagra'" (PDF). El País (in Spanish). 4 June 1987.
Other
  1. 1 2 3 "General Electoral System Organic Law of 1985". Organic Law No. 5 of 19 June 1985. Official State Gazette (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 December 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 "Representation of the people Institutional Act". juntaelectoralcentral.es. Central Electoral Commission. Retrieved 16 June 2017.
  3. 1 2 3 "Regulation of the Basis of Local Regimes Law of 1985". Law No. 7 of 2 April 1985. Official State Gazette (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 August 2017.
  4. ↑ "Electoral Results Consultation. Congress. June 1986. Valencia Municipality". infoelectoral.mir.es (in Spanish). Ministry of the Interior. Retrieved 12 November 2017.
  5. ↑ "Local election results, 10 June 1987" (PDF). juntaelectoralcentral.es (in Spanish). Central Electoral Commission. Retrieved 16 February 2018.
  6. ↑ "Municipal Elections. Valencia" (PDF). valencia.es (in Spanish). City Council of Valencia. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  7. ↑ "Electoral Results Consultation. Municipal. June 1987. Valencia Municipality". infoelectoral.mir.es (in Spanish). Ministry of the Interior. Retrieved 12 November 2017.
  8. ↑ "Municipal elections in Valencia since 1979". historiaelectoral.com (in Spanish). Electoral History. Retrieved 30 September 2017.
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