1987 Madrid City Council election

1987 Madrid City Council election

← 1983 10 June 1987 1991 →
All 55 seats in the City Council of Madrid 28 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered	2,376,010 0.2%
Turnout	1,664,580 (70.1%) 0.7 pp
First party Second party Third party   Leader Juan Barranco José María Álvarez del Manzano Agustín Rodríguez Sahagún Party PSOE AP CDS Leader since 19 January 1986 10 October 1986 16 February 1987 Last election 30 seats, 48.4% 23 seats, 37.8%[a] 0 seats, 3.0% Seats won 24 20 8 Seat change 6 3 8 Popular vote 666,199 555,599 247,773 Percentage 40.5% 33.8% 15.1% Swing 7.9 pp 4.0 pp 12.1 pp   Fourth party   Leader Ramón Tamames Party IU Leader since 19 December 1986 Last election 4 seats, 6.8%[b] Seats won 3 Seat change 1 Popular vote 100,514 Percentage 6.1% Swing 0.7 pp
Mayor before election Juan Barranco PSOE Elected Mayor Juan Barranco PSOE

The 1987 Madrid City Council election, also the 1987 Madrid municipal election, was held on Wednesday, 10 June 1987, to elect the 3rd City Council of the municipality of Madrid. All 55 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.

The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) won the election, but lost its absolute majority and lost 137,000 votes compared to 1983. The People's Alliance (AP), which stood separately after the breakup of the People's Coalition in 1986, failed to meet the level of support reached by the coalition in 1983 and also lost votes and seats. Benefitting from both parties' losses was the Democratic and Social Centre (CDS), which, with its 8 seats and 15% of the votes, entered the City Council for its first and only time and went on to hold the balance of power. United Left (IU), an electoral coalition comprising the Communist Party of Spain and other left-wing parties, continued on its long-term decline and lost 1 more seat, barely obtaining 100,000 votes and 6% of the share.

AP and CDS together reached an absolute majority, but failure on reaching an agreement resulted in Socialist Juan Barranco being re-elected as mayor. However, in June 1989, both parties agreed to present a motion of censure on Barranco and elect Agustín Rodríguez Sahagún from the CDS as new mayor, ousting the PSOE from power in the city after a 10-year rule.
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