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1987 Valencia municipal election

A municipal election was held in Valencia on 10 June 1987 to elect the 3rd City Council of the municipality. All 33 seats in the City Council were up for election. It was held concurrently with regional elections in thirteen autonomous communities and local elections all across Spain, as well as the 1987 European Parliament election.

1987 Valencia municipal election
← 1983
10 June 1987
1991 →
All 33 seats in the City Council of Valencia
17 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered551,507 Decrease 0.3%
Turnout394,449 (71.5%)
Increase 1.6 pp
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Ricard Pérez Casado Vicente González Lizondo Martín Quirós
Party PSOE UV AP
Leader since 5 October 1979 30 August 1982 1987
Last election 18 seats, 48.8% 2 seats (CP–UV)[a] 8 seats (CP–UV)[a]
Seats won 13 7 7
Seat change Decrease 5 Increase 5 Decrease 1
Popular vote 143,037 77,353 73,830
Percentage 36.8% 19.9% 19.0%
Swing Decrease 12.0 pp n/a n/a
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Manuel del Hierro Carmen Arjona Ángel Villanueva Pareja
Party CDS IU–UPV PDP–CV
Leader since 1987 1986 1987
Last election 0 seats, 1.9% 2 seats, 9.1%[b] 2 seats (CP–UV)[a]
Seats won 4 2 0
Seat change Increase 4 Steady 0 Decrease 2
Popular vote 44,133 30,963 1,096
Percentage 11.3% 8.0% 0.3%
Swing Increase 9.4 pp Decrease 1.1 pp n/a
Mayor before election

Ricard Pérez Casado
PSOE

 Elected mayor

Ricard Pérez Casado
PSOE

Overview

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Under the 1978 Constitution, the governance of municipalities in Spain—part of the country's local government system—was centered on the figure of city councils (Spanish: ayuntamientos), local corporations with independent legal personality composed of a mayor, a government council and an elected legislative assembly.[2] The mayor was indirectly elected by the local assembly, requiring an absolute majority; otherwise, the candidate from the most-voted party automatically became mayor (ties were resolved by drawing lots).[3] In the case of Valencia, the top-tier administrative and governing body was the City Council of Valencia.

Date

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The term of local assemblies in Spain expired four years after the date of their previous election. The election decree was required to be issued no later than 25 days prior to the scheduled expiration date of the assemblies and published on the following day in the Official State Gazette (BOE), with election day taking place between 54 and 60 days after the decree's publication.[4] The previous local elections were held on 8 May 1983, which meant that the chambers' terms would have expired on 8 May 1987. The election decree was required to be published in the BOE no later than 14 April 1987, setting the latest possible date for election day on 13 June 1987.

Local assemblies could not be dissolved before the expiration of their term, except in cases of mismanagement that seriously harmed the public interest and implied a breach of constitutional obligations, in which case the Council of Ministers could—optionally—decide to call a by-election.[5]

Elections to the assemblies of local entities were officially called on 14 April 1987 with the publication of the corresponding decree in the BOE, setting election day for 10 June.[6]

Electoral system

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Voting for local assemblies was based on universal suffrage, comprising all Spanish nationals over 18 years of age, registered and residing in the municipality and with full political rights (provided that they had not been deprived of the right to vote by a final sentence, nor were legally incapacitated), as well as resident non-nationals whose country of origin allowed reciprocal voting by virtue of a treaty.[7]

Local councillors were elected using the D'Hondt method and closed-list proportional voting, with a five percent-threshold of valid votes (including blank ballots) in each municipality.[8] Each municipality was a multi-member constituency, with a number of seats based on the following scale:[9]

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 law did not provide for by-elections to fill vacant seats; instead, any vacancies arising after the proclamation of candidates and during the legislative term were filled by the next candidates on the party lists or, when required, by designated substitutes.[10]

Parties and candidates

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The electoral law allowed for parties and federations registered in the interior ministry, alliances and groupings of electors to present lists of candidates. Parties and federations intending to form an alliance were required to inform the relevant electoral commission within 10 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 sought election, disallowing electors from signing for more than one list. In the case of Valencia, as its population was between 300,001 and 1,000,000, at least 5,000 signatures were required.[11]

Below is a list of the main parties and alliances which contested the election:

Candidacy Parties and
alliances		 Leading candidate Ideology Previous result Gov. Ref.
Vote % Seats
PSOE Ricard Pérez Casado Social democracy 48.8% 18 Yes [12]
[13]
AP
List
 Martín Quirós Conservatism
Christian democracy
37.1%
[c]		 13 No
UV
List
 Vicente González Lizondo Blaverism
Conservatism		 No [14]
PDP–CV Ángel Villanueva Pareja Christian democracy No [15]
[16]
IU–UPV Carmen Arjona Socialism
9.1%
[b]		 2 No
CDS Manuel del Hierro Centrism
Liberalism		 1.9% 0 No

Opinion polls

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The tables below list opinion polling results 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 poll.

Voting intention estimates

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The table below lists weighted voting intention estimates. Refusals are generally excluded from the party vote percentages, while question wording and the treatment of "don't know" responses and those not intending to vote may vary between polling organisations. When available, seat projections determined by the polling organisations are displayed below (or in place of) the percentages in a smaller font; 17 seats were required for an absolute majority in the City Council of Valencia.

Results

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← Summary of the 10 June 1987 City Council of Valencia election results →
Parties and alliances Popular vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Total +/−
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) 143,03736.75−12.08 13−5
Valencian Union (UV)1 77,35319.87n/a 7+5
People's Alliance (AP)1 73,83018.97n/a 7−1
Democratic and Social Centre (CDS) 44,13311.34+9.41 4+4
United Left–Valencian People's Union (IU–UPV)2 30,9637.96−1.09 2±0
Workers' Party of Spain–Communist Unity (PTE–UC) 5,6081.44New 0±0
Spanish Vertex Ecological Development Revindication (VERDE) 3,2780.84New 0±0
Valencian Electoral Coalition (CEV) 2,3700.61New 0±0
People's Democratic Party–Valencian Centrists (PDP–CV)1 1,0960.28n/a 0−2
Humanist Platform (PH) 8790.23New 0±0
Spanish Phalanx of the CNSO (FE–JONS) 8600.22New 0±0
Communist Unification of Spain (UCE) 8000.21New 0±0
Republican Popular Unity (UPR)3 6010.15+0.01 0±0
Liberal Party (PL)1 n/an/an/a 0−1
Blank ballots 4,4061.13+0.70
Total 389,214 33±0
Valid votes 389,21498.67−0.07
Invalid votes 5,2351.33+0.07
Votes cast / turnout 394,44971.52+1.60
Abstentions 157,05828.48−1.60
Registered voters 551,507
Sources[17][18][19][20]
Footnotes:
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%

Aftermath

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Government formation

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Investiture
Ballot → 30 June 1987
Required majority → 17 out of 33
13 / 33
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7 / 33
 X mark
  • • AP (7)
7 / 33
 X mark
Manuel del Hierro (CDS)
4 / 33
 X mark
Abstentions/Blank ballots
2 / 33
Absentees
0 / 33
Sources[21]

1989 investiture

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Investiture
Ballot → 13 January 1989
Required majority → 17 out of 33
14 / 33
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13 / 33
 X mark
Abstentions/Blank ballots
6 / 33
Absentees
0 / 33
Sources[22]

Notes

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  1. 1 2 3 Within the CP–UV alliance in the 1983 election: AP (8 seats), PDP (2 seats), UV (2 seats) and UL/PL (1 seat).[1]
  2. 1 2 Results for PCE–PCPV (7.6%, 2 seats) and UPV (1.5%, 0 seats) in the 1983 election.
  3. ↑ Results for CP–UV in the 1983 election.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Within IU–UPV.
  5. 1 2 3 Within AP–PDP–UL–UV/AP–PDP–PL.
  6. ↑ Results for PCE–PCPV in the 1983 election.

References

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Opinion poll sources

  1. ↑ "El CDS e IU-UPV, partidos 'bisagra'" (PDF). El País (in Spanish). 4 June 1987. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 February 2016. Retrieved 8 December 2017.

Other

  1. ↑ "Juntas Electorales de Zona de Valencia y de Sagunto. Candidaturas proclamadas (BOP Valencia núm. 83 supl., de 9 de abril de 1983)" (PDF). Official Gazette of the Province of Valencia (in Spanish) (83): 26. 9 April 1983. ISSN 2483-1867. Retrieved 29 November 2025.
  2. ↑ Constitution (1978), art. 140; LBRL (1985), art. 19.
  3. ↑ LBRL (1985), art. 19; LOREG (1985), art. 196.
  4. ↑ LOREG (1985), arts. 42 & 194.
  5. ↑ LBRL (1985), art. 61.
  6. ↑ Royal Decree 508/1987 (1987), arts. 1–2.
  7. ↑ Constitution (1978), art. 13; LBRL (1985), art. 19; LOREG (1985), arts. 2–3 & 176.
  8. ↑ LOREG (1985), arts. 163 & 180.
  9. ↑ LOREG (1985), art. 179.
  10. ↑ LOREG (1985), arts. 46, 48 & 182.
  11. ↑ LOREG (1985), arts. 44 & 187.
  12. ↑ Villena, Miguel Ángel (25 March 1987). "Joan Lerma obstaculiza la candidatura de Pérez Casado a la alcaldía de Valencia". El País (in Spanish). Valencia. Retrieved 29 November 2025.
  13. ↑ Muñoz, Manuel (27 March 1987). "El alcalde de Valencia se presentará a la reelección". El País (in Spanish). Valencia. Retrieved 29 November 2025.
  14. ↑ Jardí, Manuel (30 November 1985). "Unión Valenciana abandona Coalición Popular". El País (in Spanish). Valencia. Retrieved 4 January 2026.
  15. ↑ "El PDP irá en solitario". El País (in Spanish). 14 September 1986. Retrieved 10 March 2026.
  16. ↑ "Alzaga descarta cualquier coalición del PDP con Alianza Popular". El País (in Spanish). Valencia. 28 January 1987. Retrieved 28 November 2025.
  17. ↑ Lozano, Carles. "Eleccions municipals a València (des de 1979)". Historia Electoral.com (in Catalan). Retrieved 4 November 2025.
  18. ↑ "Consultes electorals. 1. Eleccions municipals" (PDF). City Council of Valencia (in Catalan). Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 December 2017. Retrieved 27 November 2025.
  19. ↑ "Elecciones celebradas. Resultados electorales" (in Spanish). Ministry of the Interior. Retrieved 5 November 2025.
  20. ↑ "Resultados de las elecciones municipales celebradas el 10 de junio de 1987" (PDF). Official State Gazette (in Spanish) (172): 1–565. 20 July 1987. ISSN 0212-033X. Retrieved 26 November 2025.
  21. ↑ "Pérez Casado fue reelegido alcalde con los votos socialistas". El País. Valencia. 1 July 1987. Retrieved 29 November 2025.
  22. ↑ García del Moral, Juanjo (14 January 1989). "La socialista Clementina Ródenas accede a la alcaldía de Valencia gracias a la abstención del CDS". El País (in Spanish). Valencia. Retrieved 28 November 2025.

Bibliography

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