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
Registered1,002,775 Increase 8.3%
Turnout676,795 (67.5%)
Increase 5.1 pp
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Jerónimo Saavedra Fernando Fernández Martín Manuel Hermoso
Party PSOE CDS AIC
Leader since 1977 1983 1986
Leader's seat Gran Canaria Tenerife Tenerife
Last election 27 seats, 41.5% 8 seats, 7.8%[a] 0 seats, 0.5%[b]
Seats won 21 13 11
Seat change Decrease 6 Increase 5 Increase 11
Popular vote 185,749 130,297 134,667
Percentage 27.8% 19.5% 20.1%
Swing Decrease 13.7 pp Increase 11.7 pp Increase 19.6 pp
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Paulino Montesdeoca Pedro Lezcano Montalvo Antonio Fernández Viéitez
Party AP AC–INC IU
Leader since 1987 1987 1987
Leader's seat Gran Canaria Gran Canaria Gran Canaria
Last election 17 seats, 29.0%[c] 2 seats, 8.3%[d] 1 seat, 4.4%[e]
Seats won 6 2 2
Seat change Decrease 11 Steady 0 Increase 1
Popular vote 74,767 46,229 40,837
Percentage 11.2% 6.9% 6.1%
Swing Decrease 17.8 pp Decrease 1.4 pp Increase 1.7 pp
Constituency results map for the Parliament of the Canary Islands
President before election

Jerónimo Saavedra
PSOE

 President after election

Fernando Fernández Martín
CDS

A regional election was held in the Canary Islands on 10 June 1987 to elect the 2nd Parliament of the autonomous community. All 60 seats in the Parliament were up for election. It was held concurrently with regional elections in twelve other autonomous communities and local elections all across Spain, as well as the 1987 European Parliament election.

Overview

Under the 1982 Statute of Autonomy, the Parliament of the Canary Islands was the unicameral legislature of the homonymous autonomous community, having legislative power in devolved matters, as well as the ability to grant or withdraw confidence from a regional president.[1] The electoral and procedural rules were supplemented by national law provisions.[2]

Date

The term of the Parliament of the Canary Islands expired four years after the date of its previous ordinary election. The election decree was required to be issued no later than 25 days before the scheduled expiration date of parliament and published on the following day in the Official Gazette of the Canaries (BOC), with election day taking place between 54 and 60 days after the decree's publication.[3] The previous election was held on 8 May 1983, which meant that the chamber's term would have expired on 8 May 1987. The election decree was required to be published in the BOC no later than 14 April 1987, setting the latest possible date for election day on 13 June 1987.

The Parliament of the Canary Islands could not be dissolved before the expiration date 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 lawmakers serving the remainder of its original four-year term.[4]

The election to the Parliament of the Canary Islands was officially called on 2 April 1991 with the publication of the corresponding decree in the BOC, setting election day for 26 May.[5]

Electoral system

Voting for the Parliament was based on universal suffrage, comprising all Spanish nationals over 18 years of age, registered in the Canary Islands and with full political rights, provided that they had not been deprived of the right to vote by a final sentence, nor were legally incapacitated.[6]

The Parliament of the Canary Islands had a minimum of 50 and a maximum of 70 seats, with electoral provisions fixing its size at 60. All were elected in seven multi-member constituencies—corresponding to the islands of El Hierro, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, La Gomera, La Palma, Lanzarote and Tenerife, each of which was assigned a fixed number of seats—using the D'Hondt method and closed-list proportional voting, with a 20 percent-threshold of valid votes (including blank ballots) in each constituency or three percent regionally.[7]

As a result of the aforementioned allocation, each Parliament constituency was entitled the following seats:[8]

Seats Constituencies
15 Gran Canaria, Tenerife
8 La Palma, Lanzarote
7 Fuerteventura
4 La Gomera
3 El Hierro

The law did not provide for by-elections to fill vacant seats; instead, any vacancies arising after the proclamation of candidates and during the legislative term were filled by the next candidates on the party lists or, when required, by designated substitutes.[9]

Opinion polls

The tables below list opinion polling results 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.

Voting intention estimates

The table below lists weighted voting intention estimates. Refusals are generally excluded from the party vote percentages, while question wording and the treatment of "don't know" responses and those not intending to vote may vary between polling organisations. 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.

Results

Overall

← Summary of the 10 June 1987 Parliament of the Canary Islands election results →
Parties and alliances Popular vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Total +/−
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) 185,74927.77−13.73 21−6
Canarian Independent Groups (AIC)1 134,66720.13+19.65 11+11
Democratic and Social Centre (CDS)2 130,29719.48+11.66 13+5
People's Alliance (AP)3 74,76711.18−17.80 6−11
Canarian Assembly–Canarian Nationalist Left (AC–INC)4 46,2296.91−1.39 2±0
United Canarian Left (ICU)5 40,8376.10+1.69 2+1
Centre Canarian Union (UCC)6 15,5802.33−1.99 0−1
People's Democratic Party–Canarian Centrists (PDP–CC) 13,2741.98New 0±0
National Congress of the Canaries (CNC) 8,7691.31New 0±0
Majorera Assembly (AM) 5,4230.81−0.17 3±0
Workers' Socialist Party (PST) 2,1100.32−0.37 0±0
Independent Herrenian Group (AHI) 1,4150.21+0.04 2+1
Union of Left Nationalists (UNI) 1,2870.19New 0±0
Humanist Platform (PH) 1,1460.17New 0±0
Popular Front of the Canary Islands–Awañac (FREPIC–Awañac) 1,1060.17New 0±0
Workers' Party of Spain–Communist Unity (PTE–UC) 9870.15New 0±0
Assembly (Tagoror) 5520.08New 0±0
Canarian Democratic Union (UDC) 4280.06New 0±0
Blank ballots 4,3210.65+0.65
Total 668,944 60±0
Valid votes 668,94498.84+1.24
Invalid votes 7,8511.16−1.24
Votes cast / turnout 676,79567.49+5.08
Abstentions 325,98032.51−5.08
Registered voters 1,002,775
Sources[10][11][12]
Footnotes:
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[10][11][12]

Aftermath

Government formation

Investiture
Nomination of Fernando Fernández Martín (CDS)
Ballot → 29 July 1987
Required majority → 31 out of 60 check
Yes
31 / 60
No
28 / 60
Abstentions
0 / 60
Absentees
1 / 60
Sources[10][13]

1988 motion of confidence

Motion of confidence
General Policy Statement (President)
Ballot → 30 November 1988
Required majority → Simple X mark
Yes
21 / 60
No
27 / 60
Abstentions
11 / 60
Absentees
1 / 60
Sources[10][14][15]

1988 investiture

Investiture
Nomination of Lorenzo Olarte (CDS)
Ballot → 27 December 1988
Required majority → 31 out of 60 check
Yes
31 / 60
No
28 / 60
Abstentions
0 / 60
Absentees
1 / 60
Sources[10][16]

Notes

  1. ↑ Results for CDS (7.2%, 6 seats) and AGI (0.6%, 2 seats) in the 1983 election.
  2. ↑ Results for AIL in the 1983 election.
  3. ↑ Results for AP–PDP–UL in the 1983 election.
  4. ↑ Results for UPC–AC in the 1983 election.
  5. ↑ Results for PCC–PCE in the 1983 election.
  6. 1 2 Within CDS.
  7. 1 2 3 4 Within CP.
  8. ↑ Result for PCC–PCE.

References

Opinion poll sources
  1. ↑ "El partido centrista, segunda fuerza" (PDF). El País (in Spanish). 4 June 1987. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 June 2018. Retrieved 24 June 2018.
Other
  1. ↑ Statute (1982), arts. 8, 12 & 16.
  2. ↑ LECC (1987), final prov. 1.
  3. ↑ Statute (1982), art. 9; LECC (1987), art. 14; suppl. by LOREG (1985), art. 42).
  4. ↑ Statute (1982), art. 16.
  5. ↑ Decree 63/1987 (1987), art. 1.
  6. ↑ Statute (1982), arts. 8–9; LECC (1987), art. 2 (suppl. by LOREG (1985), arts. 2–3).
  7. ↑ Statute (1982), art. 8 & trans. prov. 1.
  8. ↑ Statute (1982), trans. prov. 1; Decree 63/1987 (1987), art. 2.
  9. ↑ LECC (1987), art. 19 (suppl. by LOREG (1985), arts. 46 & 48).
  10. 1 2 3 4 5 Lozano, Carles. "Elecciones al Parlamento de Canarias (desde 1983)". Historia Electoral.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 April 2026.
  11. 1 2 "Nº 75. Informe de fiscalización de la regularidad de las contabilidades electorales derivadas de las elecciones celebradas el 10 de junio de 1987" (PDF). Court of Auditors (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 January 2026.
  12. 1 2 Government of the Canary Islands 1987, pp. 205–234.
  13. ↑ Martín, Carmelo (30 July 1987). "El centrista Fernando Fernández elegido presidente de Canarias". El País (in Spanish). Tenerife. Retrieved 30 June 2026.
  14. ↑ Martín, Carmelo (17 November 1988). "Planteada la cuestión de confianza en Canarias por la polémica sobre la universidad de Las Palmas". El País (in Spanish). Tenerife. Retrieved 30 June 2026.
  15. ↑ Martín, Carmelo (1 December 1988). "El CDS pierde el Gobierno de Canarias por los desacuerdos sobre política universitaria". El País (in Spanish). Tenerife. Retrieved 30 June 2026.
  16. ↑ Martín, Carmelo (28 December 1988). "Lorenzo Olarte, nuevo presidente centrista del Gobierno de Canarias". El País (in Spanish). Tenerife. Retrieved 30 June 2026.

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