1987 Canarian regional election

1987 Canarian regional election

10 June 1987
All 60 seats in the Parliament of the Canary Islands 31 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered	1,002,775 8.3%
Turnout	676,795 (67.5%) 5.1 pp
First party Second party Third party   170x170px 170x170px 170x170px Leader Jerónimo Saavedra Fernando Fernández Martín Manuel Hermoso Party Socialist Party of the Canaries CDS Canarian Independent Groups Leader since 1977 1983 1986 Leader's seat Gran Canaria Tenerife Tenerife Last election 27 seats, 41.5% 8 seats, 7.8% 0 seats, 0.5% Seats won 21 13 11 Seat change 6 5 11 Popular vote 185,749 130,297 134,667 Percentage 27.8% 19.5% 20.1% Swing 13.7 pp 11.7 pp 19.6 pp   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   170x170px 170x170px 170x170px Leader Paulino Montesdeoca Pedro Lezcano Montalvo Antonio Fernández Viéitez Party AP AC–INC ICU Leader since 1987 1987 1987 Leader's seat Gran Canaria Gran Canaria Gran Canaria Last election 17 seats, 29.0% 2 seats, 8.3% 1 seat, 4.4% Seats won 6 2 2 Seat change 11 0 1 Popular vote 74,767 46,229 40,837 Percentage 11.2% 6.9% 6.1% Swing 17.8 pp 1.4 pp 1.7 pp
400px Constituency results map for the Parliament of the Canary Islands
President before election Jerónimo Saavedra Socialist Party of the Canaries Elected President Fernando Fernández Martín CDS

The 1987 Canarian regional election was held on Wednesday, 10 June 1987, to elect the 2nd Parliament of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands. All 60 seats in the Parliament were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in twelve other autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain, as well as the 1987 European Parliament election.

Overview

Electoral system

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

The 60 members of the Parliament of the Canary Islands were elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with an electoral threshold of 20 percent of valid votes—which included blank ballots—being applied in each constituency. Alternatively, parties could also enter the seat distribution as long as they reached three percent regionally. Seats were allocated to constituencies, corresponding to the islands of El Hierro, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, La Gomera, La Palma, Lanzarote and Tenerife. Each constituency was allocated a fixed number of seats: 3 for El Hierro, 7 for Fuerteventura, 15 for Gran Canaria, 4 for La Gomera, 8 for La Palma, 8 for Lanzarote and 15 for Tenerife.

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 Parliament of the Canary Islands expired four years after the date of its 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 Gazette of the Canary Islands, 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 Parliament on Saturday, 13 June 1987.

The Parliament of the Canary Islands could not be dissolved before the date of expiry of parliament except in the event of an investiture process failing to elect a regional President within a two-month period from the first ballot. In such a case, the Parliament was to be automatically dissolved and a snap election called, with elected deputies merely serving out what remained of their four-year terms.

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; 31 seats were required for an absolute majority in the Parliament of the Canary Islands.

Polling firm/Commissioner	Fieldwork date	Sample size	Turnout	PSOE	AP–PDP–PL	AC	CDS		UCC	AM	AGI	AIC	AHI	AP	PDP	Lead
1987 regional election	10 Jun 1987	N/A	67.4	27.8 21	–	6.9 2	19.5 13	6.1 2	2.3 0	0.8 3		20.1 11	0.2 2	11.2 6	2.0 0	7.7
Demoscopia/El País	22–26 May 1987	?	68	30.8 20	–	2.9 2	26.7 16	5.4 3	–	? 3		12.2 2	–	18.9 14	–	4.1
1986 general election	22 Jun 1986	N/A	68.3	36.1	23.3	5.5	16.9	4.3	–	–	–	9.8	–			12.8
1983 regional election	8 May 1983	N/A	62.4	41.5 27	29.0 17	8.3 2	7.2 6	4.4 1	4.3 1	1.0 3	0.6 2	0.5 0	0.2 1			12.5

Results

Overall

← Summary of the 10 June 1987 Parliament of the Canary Islands election results →

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Parties and alliances		Popular vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Total	+/−
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	185,749	27.77	–13.73	21	–6
	Canarian Independent Groups (AIC)1	134,667	20.13	+19.65	11	+11
	Democratic and Social Centre (CDS)2	130,297	19.48	+11.66	13	+5
	People's Alliance (AP)3	74,767	11.18	–17.80	6	–11
	Canarian Assembly–Canarian Nationalist Left (AC–INC)4	46,229	6.91	–1.39	2	±0
	United Canarian Left (ICU)5	40,837	6.10	+1.69	2	+1
	Centre Canarian Union (UCC)6	15,580	2.33	–1.99	0	–1
	People's Democratic Party–Canarian Centrists (PDP–CC)	13,274	1.98	New	0	±0
	National Congress of the Canaries (CNC)	8,769	1.31	New	0	±0
	Majorera Assembly (AM)	5,423	0.81	–0.17	3	±0
	Workers' Socialist Party (PST)	2,110	0.32	–0.37	0	±0
	Independent Herrenian Group (AHI)	1,415	0.21	+0.04	2	+1
	Union of Left Nationalists (UNI)	1,287	0.19	New	0	±0
	Humanist Platform (PH)	1,146	0.17	New	0	±0
	Popular Front of the Canary Islands–Awañac (FREPIC–Awañac)	1,106	0.17	New	0	±0
	Workers' Party of Spain–Communist Unity (PTE–UC)	987	0.15	New	0	±0
	Assembly (Tagoror)	552	0.08	New	0	±0
	Canarian Democratic Union (UDC)	428	0.06	New	0	±0
Blank ballots		4,321	0.65	+0.65
Total		668,944			60	±0
Valid votes		668,944	98.84	+1.24
Invalid votes		7,851	1.16	–1.24
Votes cast / turnout		676,795	67.49	+5.08
Abstentions		325,980	32.51	–5.08
Registered voters		1,002,775
Sources
Footnotes: 1 Canarian Independent Groups results are compared to Lanzarote Independents Group totals in the 1983 election. 2 Democratic and Social Centre results are compared to the combined totals of Democratic and Social Centre and Gomera Group of Independents in the 1983 election. 3 People's Alliance results are compared to People's Coalition totals in the 1983 election. 4 Canarian Assembly–Canarian Nationalist Left results are compared to Canarian People's Union–Canarian Assembly totals in the 1983 election. 5 United Canarian Left results are compared to Communist Party of the Canaries totals in the 1983 election. 6 Centre Canarian Union results are compared to Canarian Nationalist Convergence totals in the 1983 election.

Popular vote
PSOE			27.77%
AIC			20.13%
CDS			19.48%
AP			11.18%
AC–INC			6.91%
ICU			6.10%
UCC			2.33%
PDP–CC			1.98%
CNC			1.31%
AM			0.81%
AHI			0.21%
Others			1.14%
Blank ballots			0.65%

Seats
PSOE			35.00%
CDS			21.67%
AIC			18.33%
AP			10.00%
AM			5.00%
AC–INC			3.33%
ICU			3.33%
AHI			3.33%

Distribution by constituency

Constituency	PSOE		AIC		CDS		AP		AC–INC		ICU		AM		AHI
	%	S	%	S	%	S	%	S	%	S	%	S	%	S	%	S
El Hierro	23.9	1			10.4	−	16.7	−			13.3	−			35.5	2
Fuerteventura	15.8	1	14.7	1	27.0	2	5.2	−					35.8	3
Gran Canaria	26.8	5	1.6	−	25.1	4	15.3	3	10.1	2	8.3	1
La Gomera	58.3	3	2.5	−	29.4	1	4.3	−			4.9	−
La Palma	26.2	2	25.6	2	16.7	1	20.0	2			11.1	1
Lanzarote	34.4	4	10.1	1	32.0	3	4.0	−	2.5	−	4.6	−
Tenerife	28.3	5	41.5	7	12.0	2	6.6	1	5.5	−	3.4	−
Total	27.8	21	20.1	11	19.5	13	11.2	6	6.9	2	6.1	2	0.8	3	0.2	2
Sources

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