1987 Spanish local elections

1987 Spanish local elections

← 1983 10 June 1987 1991 →

65,577 councillors in 8,062 municipal councils
1,028 seats in 38 provincial deputations
Registered28,442,348 Green arrow up3.5%
Turnout19,744,334 (69.4%)
Green arrow up4.3 pp
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Felipe González Antonio Hernández Mancha Adolfo Suárez
Party PSOE AP CDS
Leader since 13 October 1974 8 February 1987 29 July 1982
Last election 23,729 c., 43.0% 21,076 c., 26.4%[a] 658 c., 1.7%
Seats won 23,241 16,581 5,972
Seat change Red arrow down488 Red arrow down4,495 Green arrow up5,288
Popular vote 7,229,782 4,080,705 1,904,984
Percentage 37.1% 20.9% 9.8%
Swing Red arrow down5.9 pp Red arrow down5.5 pp Green arrow up8.1 pp

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Gerardo Iglesias Jordi Pujol Javier Rupérez
Party IU CiU PDP
Leader since 10 December 1982 19 September 1978 22 May 1987
Last election 2,558 c., 8.6%[b] 3,329 c., 4.2% 872 c., 0.9%[c]
Seats won 2,576 4,350 1,520
Seat change Green arrow up18 Green arrow up1,021 Green arrow up648
Popular vote 1,534,946 1,004,115 319,519
Percentage 7.9% 5.2% 1.6%
Swing Red arrow down0.7 pp Green arrow up1.0 pp New party

Provincial results map for municipal elections

The 1987 Spanish local elections were held on Wednesday, 10 June 1987, to elect all 65,577 councillors in the 8,062 municipalities of Spain and all 1,028 seats in 38 provincial deputations.[1][2] The elections were held simultaneously with regional elections in thirteen autonomous communities, as well as local elections in the three foral deputations of the Basque Country, the ten island councils in the Balearic and Canary Islands and the 1987 European Parliament election.


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  1. ^ "Municipal elections in Spain 1979-2011". interior.gob.es (in Spanish). Ministry of the Interior. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
  2. ^ "Provincial deputation elections since 1979" (in Spanish). historiaelectoral.com. Retrieved 24 September 2017.