1987 Valencia City Council election

The 1987 Valencia City Council election, also the 1987 Valencia municipal election, was held on Wednesday, 10 June 1987, to elect the 3rd City Council of the municipality of Valencia. All 33 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.

1987 Valencia City Council election

10 June 1987
All 33 seats in the City Council of Valencia 17 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered	551,507 0.3%
Turnout	394,449 (71.5%) 1.6 pp
Leader Ricard Pérez Casado Vicente González Lizondo Martín Luis Quirós Party PSOE UV AP Leader since 5 October 1979 30 August 1982 1987 Last election 18 seats, 48.8% 2 seats (CP–UV)[lower-alpha 1] 11 seats (CP–UV)[lower-alpha 1] Seats won 13 7 7 Seat change 5 5 4 Popular vote 143,037 77,353 73,830 Percentage 36.8% 19.9% 19.0% Swing 12.0 pp n/a n/a   Leader Manuel del Hierro Carmen Arjona Party CDS IU–UPV Leader since 1987 1986 Last election 0 seats, 1.9% 2 seats, 9.1%[lower-alpha 2] Seats won 4 2 Seat change 4 0 Popular vote 44,133 30,963 Percentage 11.3% 8.0% Swing 9.4 pp 1.1 pp
Mayor before election Ricard Pérez Casado PSOE Elected Mayor Ricard Pérez Casado PSOE

Electoral system

The City Council of Valencia (Valencian: Ajuntament de València, Spanish: Ayuntamiento de Valencia) was the top-tier administrative and governing body of the municipality of Valencia, composed of the mayor, the government council and the elected plenary assembly.[1][2]

Voting for the local assembly was on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprised all nationals over eighteen, registered in the municipality of Valencia and in full enjoyment of their political rights, as well as resident non-nationals whose country of origin allowed Spanish nationals to vote in their own elections by virtue of a treaty. Local councillors were elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with a threshold of five percent of valid votes—which included blank ballots—being applied in each local council. Parties not reaching the threshold were not taken into consideration for seat distribution.[1][2] Councillors were allocated to municipal councils based on the following scale:

Population	Councillors
<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
>100,001	+1 per each 100,000 inhabitants or fraction +1 if total is an even number

The mayor was indirectly elected by the plenary assembly. A legal clause required that mayoral candidates earned the vote of an absolute majority of councillors, or else the candidate of the most-voted party in the assembly was to be automatically appointed to the post. In the event of a tie, a toss-up would determine the appointee.[1]

The electoral law allowed for parties and federations registered in the interior ministry, coalitions and groupings of electors to present lists of candidates. Parties and federations intending to form a coalition ahead of an election were required to inform the relevant Electoral Commission within ten days of the election call, whereas groupings of electors needed to secure the signature of a determined amount of the electors registered in the municipality for which they were seeking election, disallowing electors from signing for more than one list of candidates. For the case of Valencia, as its population was between 300,001 and 1,000,000, at least 5,000 signatures were required.[2]

Opinion polls

The table below lists voting intention estimates in reverse chronological order, showing the most recent first and using the dates when the survey fieldwork was done, as opposed to the date of publication. Where the fieldwork dates are unknown, the date of publication is given instead. The highest percentage figure in each polling survey is displayed with its background shaded in the leading party's colour. If a tie ensues, this is applied to the figures with the highest percentages. The "Lead" column on the right shows the percentage-point difference between the parties with the highest percentages in a given poll. When available, seat projections are also displayed below the voting estimates in a smaller font. 17 seats were required for an absolute majority in the City Council of Valencia.

Polling firm/Commissioner	Fieldwork date	Sample size	Turnout									Lead
1987 municipal election	10 Jun 1987	N/A	71.5	36.8 13	–	[lower-alpha 3]	11.3 4	[lower-alpha 3]	19.9 7	19.0 7	8.0 2	16.9
Demoscopia/El País[p 1]	22–26 May 1987	?	73	40.4 14	–	[lower-alpha 3]	12.3 4	[lower-alpha 3]	8.7 3	31.0 10	6.2 2	9.4
1986 general election[3]	22 Jun 1986	N/A	75.7	40.6 16	30.5 12	4.8 0	9.2 3	1.7 0	7.6 2	[lower-alpha 4]	–	10.1
1983 municipal election	8 May 1983	N/A	69.9	48.8 18	37.1 13	7.6[lower-alpha 5] 2	1.9 0	1.5 0	[lower-alpha 4]	[lower-alpha 4]	–	11.7

Results

← Summary of the 10 June 1987 City Council of Valencia election results →

Parties and coalitions		Popular vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Total	+/−
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	143,037	36.75	–12.08	13	–5
	Valencian Union (UV)^1	77,353	19.87	n/a	7	+5
	People's Alliance (AP)^1	73,830	18.97	n/a	7	–4
	Democratic and Social Centre (CDS)	44,133	11.34	+9.41	4	+4
	United Left–Valencian People's Union (IU–UPV)^2	30,963	7.96	–1.09	2	±0
	Workers' Party of Spain–Communist Unity (PTE–UC)	5,608	1.44	New	0	±0
	Spanish Vertex Ecological Development Revindication (VERDE)	3,278	0.84	New	0	±0
	Valencian Electoral Coalition (CEV)	2,370	0.61	New	0	±0
	People's Democratic Party–Valencian Centrists (PDP–CV)	1,096	0.28	New	0	±0
	Humanist Platform (PH)	879	0.23	New	0	±0
	Spanish Phalanx of the CNSO (FE–JONS)	860	0.22	New	0	±0
	Communist Unification of Spain (UCE)	800	0.21	New	0	±0
	Republican Popular Unity (UPR)^3	601	0.15	+0.01	0	±0
Blank ballots		4,406	1.13	+0.70
Total		389,214			33	±0
Valid votes		389,214	98.67	–0.07
Invalid votes		5,235	1.33	+0.07
Votes cast / turnout		394,449	71.52	+1.60
Abstentions		157,058	28.48	–1.60
Registered voters		551,507
Sources[4][5][6][7]

Popular vote PSOE   36.75% UV   19.87% AP   18.97% CDS   11.34% IU–UPV   7.96% PTE–UC   1.44% Others   2.54% Blank ballots   1.13%

Seats PSOE   39.39% UV   21.21% AP   21.21% CDS   12.12% IU–UPV   6.06%

Notes

1. Within the CP–UV alliance in the 1983 election.
2. Aggregated data for PCE–PCPV and UPV in the 1983 election.
3. Within IU–UPV.
4. Within AP–PDP–UL–UV/AP–PDP–PL.
5. Result for Communist Party of the Valencian Country.

References

Opinion poll sources

1. "El CDS e IU-UPV, partidos 'bisagra'" (PDF). El País (in Spanish). 4 June 1987.

Other

1. "Ley 7/1985, de 2 de abril, Reguladora de las Bases del Régimen Local". Law No. 7 of 2 April 1985. Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 June 2020.
2. "Ley Orgánica 5/1985, de 19 de junio, del Régimen Electoral General". Organic Law No. 5 of 19 June 1985. Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 January 2020.
3. "Electoral Results Consultation. Congress. June 1986. Valencia Municipality". Ministry of the Interior (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 November 2017.
4. "Local election results, 10 June 1987" (PDF). Central Electoral Commission (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 February 2018.
5. "Municipal Elections. Valencia" (PDF). www.valencia.es (in Spanish). City Council of Valencia. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
6. "Electoral Results Consultation. Municipal. June 1987. Valencia Municipality". Ministry of the Interior (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 November 2017.
7. "Eleccions municipals a València (1979 - 2015)". Historia Electoral.com (in Catalan). Retrieved 30 September 2017.