1987 Valencian regional election

1987 Valencian regional election

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All 89 seats in the Corts Valencianes 45 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered	2,727,703 2.7%
Turnout	2,030,881 (74.5%) 1.8 pp
First party Second party Third party   Leader Joan Lerma Rita Barberá José Luis Boado Party PSOE AP CDS Leader since 31 July 1979 1987 1987 Leader's seat Valencia Valencia Valencia Last election 51 seats, 51.4% 21 seats (CP)[a] 0 seats, 1.9% Seats won 42 25 10 Seat change 9 4 10 Popular vote 828,961 476,099 225,663 Percentage 41.3% 23.7% 11.2% Swing 10.1 pp n/a 9.3 pp   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader Filibert Crespo Albert Taberner Party UV IU–UPV Leader since 1987 1986 Leader's seat Valencia Valencia Last election 5 seats (CP)[a] 6 seats, 10.5%[b] Seats won 6 6 Seat change 1 0 Popular vote 183,541 159,579 Percentage 9.1% 7.9% Swing n/a 2.6 pp
Election result by constituency
President before election Joan Lerma PSOE Elected President Joan Lerma PSOE

The 1987 Valencian regional election was held on Wednesday, 10 June 1987, to elect the 2nd Corts of the Valencian Community. All 89 seats in the Corts 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.

The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), suffering from a strong loss of popular support, lost 9 seats together with the absolute majority it had achieved in 1983. However, the PSOE remained as the largest party by a great margin due to the splitting up of the vote between the opposition parties. Incumbent President Joan Lerma was able to retain government thanks to the support of the IU-UPV alliance, and went on to form a minority government.

The People's Coalition had broken up after the 1986 general election. As a result, the People's Alliance (AP) and the People's Democratic Party (PDP) contested the election separately. AP, with future Mayoress of Valencia Rita Barberá as regional candidate, scored slightly less than 24% of the vote and lost 2 seats compared to the combined totals for the AP-PDP-UL coalition in 1983, while the PDP was swept out of the Courts entirely.^[1]

On the other hand, the election saw an increase of support for minor parties: Centrist Democratic and Social Centre (CDS) experienced a significant increase of its popular support and became the third political force in the region with over 10% of the share. The regionalist right-wing Valencian Union (UV), which ran separately for the first time, won 6 seats to the 5 it had obtained within the People's Coalition in 1983.^[1] The Communist Party of Spain (PCE), which had formed the electoral alliance United Left (IU) in April 1986 with other smaller left-wing parties across Spain, stood in coalition with the regional Valencian People's Unity (UPV) and won 6 seats.

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