Barcelona City Council election, 1987

Barcelona City Council election, 1987
Barcelona
10 June 1987
All 43 seats in the Barcelona City Council
22 seats needed for a majority
Registered 1,342,049 Decrease1.3%
Turnout 925,117 (68.9%)
Increase2.9 pp
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Pasqual Maragall Josep Maria Cullell Enrique Lacalle
Party PSC CiU AP
Leader since 2 December 1982 1987 1987
Last election 21 seats, 45.9% 13 seats, 27.5% 6 seats, 13.0%[lower-alpha 1]
Seats won 21 17 3
Seat change ±0 Increase4 Decrease3
Popular vote 400,280 325,463 69,419
Percentage 43.6% 35.5% 7.6%
Swing Decrease2.3 pp Increase8.0 pp Decrease5.4 pp
Mayor before election

Pasqual Maragall
PSC

 Elected Mayor

Pasqual Maragall
PSC

The 1987 Barcelona City Council election was held on Wednesday, 10 June 1987, to elect the 3rd Barcelona City Council, the unicameral local legislature of the municipality of Barcelona. At stake were all 43 seats in the City Council, determining the Mayor of Barcelona.

Electoral system

The number of seats in the Barcelona City Council was determined by the population count. According to the municipal electoral law, the population-seat relationship on each municipality was to be established on the following scale:

Inhabitants Seats
<250 5
251–1,000 7
1,001–2,000 9
2,001–5,000 11
5,001–10,000 13
10,001–20,000 17
20,001–50,000 21
50,001–100,000 25

Additionally, for populations greater than 100,000, 1 seat was to be added per each 100,000 inhabitants or fraction, according to the most updated census data, and adding 1 more seat if the resulting seat count gives an even number. As the updated population census for the 1987 election was 1,701,812, the Barcelona City Council size was set to 43 seats.

All City Council members were elected in a single multi-member district, consisting of the Barcelona municipality, using the D'Hondt method and a closed-list proportional representation system. Voting was on the basis of universal suffrage in a secret ballot. Only lists polling above 5% of valid votes in all of the municipality (which include blank ballots—for none of the above) were entitled to enter the seat distribution.

The Spanish municipal electoral law established a clause stating that, if no candidate was to gather an absolute majority of votes to be elected as mayor of a municipality, the candidate of the most-voted party would be automatically elected to the post.[1]

Results

← Summary of the 10 June 1987 Barcelona City Council election results →
Party Vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Won +/−
Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC-PSOE) 400,280 43.61 Decrease2.33 21 ±0
Convergence and Union (CiU) 325,463 35.46 Increase7.91 17 Increase4
People's Alliance (AP)[lower-alpha 1] 69,419 7.56 Decrease5.40 3 Decrease3
Initiative for Catalonia (IC)[lower-alpha 2] 47,406 5.16 Decrease2.87 2 Decrease1
Democratic and Social Centre (CDS) 31,028 3.38 Increase2.44 0 ±0
Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) 21,236 2.31 Decrease1.56 0 ±0
Green Alternative-Ecologist Movement of Catalonia (AV-MEC) 3,916 0.43 New 0 ±0
Ecologist Party of Catalonia-VERDE (PEC-VERDE) 3,116 0.34 New 0 ±0
Workers' Party of Spain–Communist Unity (PTE-UC) 2,078 0.23 New 0 ±0
Spanish Falange of the JONS (FE-JONS) 1,388 0.15 Increase0.02 0 ±0
Revolutionary Workers' Party of Spain (PORE) 1,152 0.13 Increase0.03 0 ±0
Republican People's Unity (UPR) 1,069 0.12 New 0 ±0
Humanist Platform (PH) 948 0.10 New 0 ±0
Blank ballots 6,879 0.75 Increase0.75
Total 917,877 100.00 43 ±0
Valid votes 917,877 99.22 Decrease0.78
Invalid votes 7,240 0.78 Increase0.78
Votes cast / turnout 925,117 68.93 Increase2.92
Abstentions 416,932 31.07 Decrease2.92
Registered voters 1,342,049
Source: Ministry of the Interior
Vote share
PSC-PSOE
  
 43.61%
CiU
  
 35.46%
AP
  
 7.56%
IC
  
 5.16%
CDS
  
 3.38%
ERC
  
 2.31%
Others
  
 1.76%
Blank ballots
  
 0.75%
City council seats
PSC-PSOE
  
 48.84%
CiU
  
 39.53%
AP
  
 6.98%
IC
  
 4.65%

Notes

  1. 1 2 Compared to the People's Coalition results in the 1983 election.
  2. ↑ Compared to the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia+Communists' Party of Catalonia results in the 1983 election.

References

  1. ↑ "Organic Law 5/1985, of 19 June, of the General Electoral Regime. Title III, Special Provisions for Municipal Elections.".
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