29 May 1988 1992 → 12 July 1983 23 February 1987 41 seats, 30.1% 6 seats, 5.6% | 19 September 1978 12 July 1983 72 seats, 46.8% 41 seats, 30.1% | |
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Turnout 2,709,685 (59.4%)
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The 1988 Catalan parliamentary election was held on Sunday, 29 May 1988, to elect the 3rd Parliament of Catalonia, the regional legislature of the Spanish autonomous community of Catalonia. At stake were all 135 seats in the Parliament, determining the President of Catalonia.
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Electoral system
The 135 members of the Parliament of Catalonia were elected in 4 multi-member districts, corresponding to Catalonia's four provinces, using the D'Hondt method and a closed-list proportional representation. As the community did not have an electoral law of its own passed into law at the time of the 1988 election, the electoral system came regulated under the community's Statute of Autonomy rules, and subsidiarily, under the Spanish general electoral law (Organic Law 5/1985, of the General Electoral Regime). As a result of the lack of an autonomous electoral law, seats were allocated to districts through specific Laws or Decrees for each election. For the 1988 election, seats were distributed as follows: Barcelona (85), Girona (17), Lleida (15) and Tarragona (18).
Voting was on the basis of universal suffrage in a secret ballot. Only lists polling above 3% of valid votes in each district (which includes blank ballots—for none of the above) were entitled to enter the seat distribution.
Background
After of 8 years of a Convergence and Union government, these elections didn't open up expectations for a possible change in the Catalan Government.
In the past 1984 elections, Convergence and Union won the absolute majority.