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Riojan parliamentary election, 1987

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Registered
  
201,738 3.5%

1983
  
1987

15 seats, 40.0%
  
0 seats, 2.4%

Date
  
10 June 1987

Turnout
  
146,258 (72.5%) 2.3 pp

18 seats, 47.2%
  
15 seats, 40.0%

14
  
13

Riojan parliamentary election, 1987

Winner
  
Joaquín Espert Pé

The 1987 Riojan parliamentary election was held on Wednesday, 10 June 1987, to elect the 2nd Parliament of La Rioja, the regional legislature of the Spanish autonomous community of La Rioja. All 33 seats in the Parliament were up for election, a decrease of two compared to the previous election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in 12 other autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain, as well as the 1987 European Parliament election.

The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) came first by winning the most votes and seats, but lost its absolute majority and suffered an important loss of support from 1983. As a result, a coalition government was formed between the second and fourth-most voted parties: the People's Alliance (AP), which lost votes and seats from the previous election as a result of the breakup of the People's Coalition, and the Progressive Riojan Party (PRP). Together, they had 15 seats, one more than the PSOE, and were able to get AP leader, Joaquín Espert, elected thanks to the decisive abstention of the Democratic and Social Centre (CDS), which became the third political force in the community with 4 seats and 10.8% of the share.

The AP-PRP coalition would only last until January 1989, however; from that date, the PRP would leave the coalition, resulting in a minority AP government until 1990, when a motion of censure against Espert would result in the PSOE returning to government, thanks to the vote of the PRP deputies and a CDS deserter.

Electoral system

The number of seats in the Parliament of La Rioja was set to a fixed-number of 33. All Parliament members were elected in a single multi-member district, consisting of the Community's territory (the province of La Rioja), 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 community (which include blank ballots—for none of the above) were entitled to enter the seat distribution.

References

Riojan parliamentary election, 1987 Wikipedia