1987 Murcian regional election
10 June 1987
All 45 seats in the Regional Assembly of Murcia
23 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered702,068 4.0%
Turnout512,361 (73.0%)
4.5 pp
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Carlos Collado Antonio Cerdá Ángel González
Party PSOE AP CDS
Leader since 31 March 1984 1987 1987
Leader's seat Three Three Three
Last election 26 seats, 52.2% 16 seats, 35.4%[lower-alpha 1] 0 seats, 1.1%
Seats won 25 16 3
Seat change 1 0 3
Popular vote 221,377 159,566 60,406
Percentage 43.7% 31.5% 11.9%
Swing 8.5 pp 3.9 pp 10.8 pp
  Fourth party
 
Leader Pedro Antonio Ríos
Party IU
Leader since 1983
Leader's seat Three
Last election 1 seat, 7.0%[lower-alpha 2]
Seats won 1
Seat change 0
Popular vote 37,708
Percentage 7.4%
Swing 0.4 pp
Constituency results map for the Regional Assembly of Murcia
President before election

Carlos Collado
PSOE

 Elected President

Carlos Collado
PSOE

The 1987 Murcian regional election was held on Wednesday, 10 June 1987, to elect the 2nd Regional Assembly of the autonomous community of the Region of Murcia. All 45 seats in the Regional Assembly 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.

Against predictions throughout the campaign that it might lose its absolute majority in the Regional Assembly,[1] the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) emerged as the largest party with 25 out of 45 seats, but lost nearly 9 percentage points compared to 1983, after falling from over 52% to just below 44%. The People's Alliance (AP) ran on its own after the dissolution of the People's Coalition. While its former allies—the People's Democratic Party (PDP) and the Liberal Party (PL)—did not contest the regional election, AP lost ground to former Spanish Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez's Democratic and Social Centre (CDS), which entered the Assembly with 11.9% of the share and 3 seats. The Communist-led United Left coalition (IU) held its ground, obtaining 1 seat with 7.4% of the share.[2]

PSOE candidate Carlos Collado, who had accessed power in 1984 after the resignation of former regional premier Andrés Hernández Ros, was re-elected as President of the Region of Murcia for his first full-term in office.[3]

Overview

Electoral system

The Regional Assembly of Murcia was the devolved, unicameral legislature of the autonomous community of Murcia, having legislative power in regional matters as defined by the Spanish Constitution and the Murcian Statute of Autonomy, as well as the ability to vote confidence in or withdraw it from a regional president.[4]

Voting for the Regional Assembly was on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprised all nationals over 18 years of age, registered in the Region of Murcia and in full enjoyment of their political rights. The 45 members of the Regional Assembly of Murcia were elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with an electoral threshold of five percent of valid votes—which included blank ballots—being applied regionally. Seats were allocated to constituencies, which were established by law as follows:

Each constituency was entitled to an initial minimum of one seat, with the remaining 40 allocated among the constituencies in proportion to their populations.[5]

Election date

The term of the Regional Assembly of Murcia 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 Region of Murcia, with election day taking place between the fifty-fourth and the sixtieth day from publication and set so as to make it coincide with elections to the regional assemblies of other autonomous communities. 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 Regional Assembly on Saturday, 13 June 1987.[4][5][6]

The Regional Assembly of Murcia 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 Regional Assembly was to be automatically dissolved and a snap election called, with elected deputies merely serving out what remained of their four-year terms.[4]

Parties and candidates

The electoral law allowed for parties and federations registered in the interior ministry, coalitions and groupings of electors to present lists of candidates. Parties and federations intending to form a coalition ahead of an election were required to inform the relevant Electoral Commission within ten days of the election call, whereas groupings of electors needed to secure the signature of at least one percent of the electorate in the Region of Murcia, disallowing electors from signing for more than one list of candidates.[5][6]

Below is a list of the main parties and electoral alliances which contested the election:

Candidacy Parties and
alliances		 Leading candidate Ideology Previous result Gov. Ref.
Votes (%) Seats
PSOE Carlos Collado Social democracy 52.23% 26 check
AP
List
 Antonio Cerdá Conservatism 35.42%[lower-alpha 1] 16 ☒
IU
List
 Pedro Antonio Ríos Socialism
Communism		 7.02%[lower-alpha 2] 1 ☒
CDS Ángel González Centrism
Liberalism		 1.14% 0 ☒

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; 23 seats were required for an absolute majority in the Regional Assembly of Murcia.

Results

Overall

← Summary of the 10 June 1987 Regional Assembly of Murcia election results →
Parties and alliances Popular vote Seats
Votes  % ±pp Total +/−
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) 221,37743.71–8.52 25–1
People's Alliance (AP)1 159,56631.51–3.91 16±0
Democratic and Social Centre (CDS) 60,40611.93+10.79 3+3
United Left (IU)2 37,7087.45+0.43 1±0
Cantonal Party (PCAN) 17,2073.40+0.57 0±0
Murcian Regionalist Party (PRM) 1,9620.39New 0±0
Workers' Party of Spain–Communist Unity (PTE–UC) 1,9140.38New 0±0
Humanist Platform (PH) 1,4310.28New 0±0
Blank ballots 4,8620.96+0.39
Total 506,433 45+2
Valid votes 506,43398.84–0.15
Invalid votes 5,9281.16+0.15
Votes cast / turnout 512,36172.98+4.51
Abstentions 189,70727.02–4.51
Registered voters 702,068
Sources[7][8][9]
Footnotes:
Popular vote
PSOE
 
 43.71%
AP
 
 31.51%
CDS
 
 11.93%
IU
 
 7.45%
PCAN
 
 3.40%
Others
 
 1.05%
Blank ballots
 
 0.96%
Seats
PSOE
 
 55.56%
AP
 
 35.56%
CDS
 
 6.67%
IU
 
 2.22%

Distribution by constituency

Constituency PSOE AP CDS IU
 % S  % S  % S  % S
One 52.3 5 26.1 2 10.2 − 9.3 −
Two 37.6 5 27.6 4 12.4 1 5.3 −
Three 41.9 9 35.9 8 12.3 2 7.5 1
Four 54.5 4 25.2 1 13.5 − 5.9 −
Five 42.6 2 32.7 1 9.1 − 13.6 −
Total 43.7 25 31.5 16 11.9 3 7.4 1
Sources[7][8][9]

Aftermath

Investiture
Carlos Collado (PSOE)
Ballot → 20 July 1987
Required majority → 23 out of 45 check
Yes
25 / 45
No
  • • AP (16)
  • • IU (1)
17 / 45
Abstentions
2 / 45
Absentees
1 / 45
Sources[3][9]

Notes

  1. 1 2 Results for AP–PDP–UL in the 1983 election.
  2. 1 2 Results for the PCE in the 1983 election.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Within CP.
  4. ↑ Result for PCE.

References

Opinion poll sources
  1. ↑ "Nace el Centro Democrático y Social como fuerza autonómica" (PDF). El País (in Spanish). 4 June 1987.
  2. ↑ "Una encuesta de AP pronostica un fuerte descenso del PSOE en las municipales". ABC (in Spanish). 17 April 1987.
  3. ↑ "Notable descenso del PSOE en los próximos comicios, según una encuesta encargada por AP". ABC Sevilla (in Spanish). 17 April 1987.
Other
  1. ↑ "La mayoría absoluta socialista está en juego". El País (in Spanish). 30 May 1987. Retrieved 9 December 2019.
  2. ↑ "El PSOE formará el Ejecutivo". El País (in Spanish). 12 June 1987. Retrieved 11 December 2019.
  3. 1 2 "El socialista Carlos Collado, elegido presidente del Gobierno de Murcia". El País (in Spanish). 21 July 1987. Retrieved 9 December 2019.
  4. 1 2 3 "Ley Orgánica 4/1982, de 9 de junio, de Estatuto de Autonomía para la Región de Murcia". Organic Law No. 4 of 9 June 1982 (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 February 2017.
  5. 1 2 3 "Ley 2/1987, de 24 de febrero, Electoral de la Región de Murcia". Law No. 2 of 24 February 1987 (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 February 2017.
  6. 1 2 "Ley Orgánica 5/1985, de 19 de junio, del Régimen Electoral General". Act of 19 June 1985 (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 December 2016.
  7. 1 2 "Regional Assembly of Murcia election results, 10 June 1987" (PDF). www.juntaelectoralcentral.es (in Spanish). Electoral Commission of Murcia. 27 June 1987. Retrieved 30 September 2017.
  8. 1 2 "Number 75. Audit report on the regularity of electoral accounting derived from the elections held on June 10, 1987" (PDF). tcu.es (in Spanish). Court of Auditors. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
  9. 1 2 3 "Elecciones a la Asamblea Regional de Murcia (1983 - 2019)". Historia Electoral.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 September 2017.
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