1987 Asturian regional election

1987 Asturian regional election
← 1983 10 June 1987 1991 →
All 45 seats in the General Junta of the Principality of Asturias
23 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered874,310 0.1%
Turnout582,077 (66.6%)
1.6 pp
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Pedro de Silva Isidro Fernández Rozada Alejandro Rebollo
Party PSOE AP CDS
Leader since 15 March 1983 1983 1987
Leader's seat Central Central Central
Last election 26 seats, 52.0% 14 seats, 30.2%[a] 0 seats, 3.5%
Seats won 20 13 8
Seat change 6 1 8
Popular vote 223,307 144,541 106,266
Percentage 38.9% 25.2% 18.5%
Swing 13.1 pp 5.0 pp 15.0 pp
  Fourth party
 
Leader Francisco Javier Suárez
Party IU
Leader since 1983
Leader's seat Central
Last election 5 seats, 11.1%[b]
Seats won 4
Seat change 1
Popular vote 69,413
Percentage 12.1%
Swing 1.0 pp
Constituency results map for the General Junta of the Principality of Asturias
President before election

Pedro de Silva
PSOE

Elected President

Pedro de Silva
PSOE

The 1987 Asturian regional election was held on Wednesday, 10 June 1987, to elect the 2nd General Junta of the Principality of Asturias. All 45 seats in the General Junta 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) of incumbent President Pedro de Silva remained the most-voted party, but lost 13 percentage points as well as the absolute majority it had enjoyed in the previous legislature. The internal crisis within the People's Coalition after the breakup of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) from the alliance resulted in the People's Alliance (AP) standing alone in the election, losing 25,000 votes and 5 percentage points.

Disenchanted voters with the Socialist government that did not see AP as a credible opposition alternative went on to centrist Democratic and Social Centre (CDS), which saw a significant increase of its vote share and entered the General Junta with 8 seats. United Left (IU), the new incarnation of the Communist Party of Spain and its allies, lost 1 seat despite achieving more votes than in 1983.
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