Aragonese parliamentary election, 1987

Aragonese parliamentary election, 1987

10 June 1987

All 67 seats in the Courts of Aragon 34 seats needed for a majority Registered 928,571 1.0% Turnout 647,067 (69.7%) 3.0 pp   First party Second party Third party   Leader Santiago Marraco Hipólito Gómez de las Roces Ángel Cristóbal Party PSOE PAR AP Leader since November 1979 December 1977 1987 Last election 33 seats, 46.8% 13 seats, 20.5% 18 seats, 22.6%[lower-alpha 1] Seats won 27 19 13 Seat change 6 6 5 Popular vote 228,170 179,922 99,082 Percentage 35.7% 28.1% 15.5% Swing 11.1 pp 7.6 pp 7.1 pp   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader José Luis Merino Antonio de las Casas Party CDS IU Leader since 1983 1987 Last election 1 seat, 3.3% 1 seat, 4.0%[lower-alpha 2] Seats won 6 2 Seat change 5 1 Popular vote 65,406 31,352 Percentage 10.2% 4.9% Swing 6.9 pp 0.9 pp

President before election Santiago Marraco PSOE Elected President Hipólito Gómez de las Roces PAR

The 1987 Aragonese parliamentary election was held on Wednesday, 10 June 1987, to elect the 2nd democratically-elected Courts of Aragon, the regional legislature of the Spanish autonomous community of Aragon. At stake were all 67 seats in the Courts, determining the President of the Government of Aragon.

The main two national parties, the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) and the People's Alliance (AP) lost support compared to the previous election. The latter had suffered from an internal crisis and the breakup of the People's Coalition in 1986, losing 30% of its 1983 vote and finishing third as a result. The main election winners were the Regionalist Aragonese Party (PAR), which came a strong second, and the centrist Democratic and Social Centre (CDS), a party led by the former Spanish Prime Minister Adolfo Suarez. United Left made a small advance of 0.9 percentage points and 1 seat, not being able to capitalize on the PSOE's losses.

The PSOE 27 seats compared to the centre-right 32 (38 if the CDS is counted in) meant that the Socialist Santiago Marraco was not re-elected as President of Aragon. Instead, Hipólito Gómez de las Roces from the PAR was elected President as head of a PAR administration with the support of the AP and the abstention of the CDS. In March 1989 the People's Alliance entered the government through a coalition for the remainder of the legislature, with AP members being appointed ministers in the regional administration.

Electoral system

The number of seats in the Aragonese Courts was set to a fixed-number of 67. All Courts members were elected in 3 multi-member districts, corresponding to Aragon's three provinces, using the D'Hondt method and a closed-list proportional representation system. Each district was entitled to an initial minimum of 13 seats, with the remaining 28 seats allocated among the three provinces in proportion to their populations, on the required condition that the number of inhabitants per seat in each district did not exceed 2.75 times those of any other. For the 1987 election, seats were distributed as follows: Huesca (18), Teruel (16) and Zaragoza (33).

Voting was on the basis of universal suffrage in a secret ballot. Only lists polling above 3% of valid votes in each district (which include blank ballots—for none of the above) were entitled to enter the seat distribution.^[1]

Opinion polls

Vote estimations

Poll results are listed in the tables below in reverse chronological order, showing the most recent first, and using the date the survey's fieldwork was done, as opposed to the date of publication. If such date is unknown, the date of publication is given instead. The highest percentage figure in each polling survey is displayed in bold, and the background shaded in the leading party's colour. In the instance that there is a tie, then no figure is shaded. The lead column on the right shows the percentage-point difference between the two parties with the highest figures. When a specific poll does not show a data figure for a party, the party's cell corresponding to that poll is shown empty.

Polling Firm/Link	Last Date of Polling						Margin of Error	Sample Size	Lead
Regional Election	June 10, 1987	35.7	15.5	28.1	4.9	10.2			7.6
Demoscopia	May 26, 1987	28.5	15.5	32.7	4.7	11.7			4.2
General Election	June 22, 1986	43.4	26.1	11.0	3.4	11.2			17.3
Regional Election	May 8, 1983	46.8	22.6	20.5	4.0	3.3			24.2

Parliamentary seat projections

Opinion polls showing seat projections are displayed in the table below. The highest seat figures in each polling survey have their background shaded in the leading party's colour. In the instance that there is a tie, then no figure is shaded. 34 seats were required for an absolute majority in the Courts of Aragon.

34 seats needed for majority

Polling Firm/Link	Last Date of Polling
Regional Election	June 10, 1987	27	13	19	2	6
Demoscopia	May 26, 1987	18/19	14	25/26	2	7
General Election	June 22, 1986	(32)	(20)	(7)	(1)	(7)
Regional Election	May 8, 1983	33	18	13	1	1

Results

Overall

← Summary of the 10 June 1987 Aragonese Courts election results →

Party		Vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Won	+/−
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	228,170	35.69	11.15	27	6
	Regionalist Aragonese Party (PAR)	179,922	28.15	7.64	19	6
	People's Alliance (AP)[lower-alpha 1]	99,082	15.50	7.13	13	5
	Democratic and Social Centre (CDS)	65,406	10.23	6.94	6	5
	Aragon Alternative Convergence-United Left (CAA-IU)[lower-alpha 2]	31,352	4.90	0.94	2	1
	Workers' Party of Spain–Communist Unity (PTE-UC)	8,435	1.32	New	0	±0
	People's Democratic Party (PDP)	7,887	1.23	New	0	±0
	Aragonese Unity-Aragonese Union (UA-CHA)	6,154	0.96	New	0	±0
	Humanist Platform (PH)	2,207	0.35	New	0	±0
	Republican People's Unity (UPR)	1,435	0.22	New	0	±0
	Blank ballots	9,214	1.44	0.81
Total		639,264	100.00		67	1
Valid votes		639,264	98.79	0.19
Invalid votes		7,803	1.21	0.19
Votes cast / turnout		647,067	69.68	2.97
Abstentions		281,504	30.32	2.97
Registered voters		928,571
Source: Argos Information Portal

Vote share
PSOE			35.69%
PAR			28.15%
AP			15.50%
CDS			10.23%
CAA-IU			4.90%
PTE-UC			1.32%
PDP			1.23%
Others			1.53%
Blank ballots			1.44%

Parliamentary seats
PSOE			40.30%
PAR			28.36%
AP			19.40%
CDS			8.96%
CAA-IU			2.99%

Results by province

Notes

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

References

1. "Law 1/1987, of 31 March, electoral of the Autonomous Community of Aragon".