1987 Barcelona City Council election

Barcelona City Council election, 1987

10 June 1987
All 43 seats in the Barcelona City Council 22 seats needed for a majority
Registered	1,342,049 1.3%
Turnout	925,117 (68.9%) 2.9 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% Seats won 21 17 3 Seat change ±0 4 3 Popular vote 400,280 325,463 69,419 Percentage 43.6% 35.5% 7.6% Swing 2.3 pp 8.0 pp 5.4 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.

Results

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

Party		Vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Won	+/−
width="1" bgcolor="Template:Socialists' Party of Catalonia/meta/color" |	Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC-PSOE)	400,280	43.61	2.33	21	±0
bgcolor="Template:Convergence and Union/meta/color" |	Convergence and Union (CiU)	325,463	35.46	7.91	17	4
bgcolor="Template:People's Alliance (Spain)/meta/color" |	People's Alliance (AP)	69,419	7.56	5.40	3	3
bgcolor="Template:Initiative for Catalonia/meta/color" |	Initiative for Catalonia (IC)	47,406	5.16	2.87	2	1
bgcolor="Template:Democratic and Social Centre (Spain)/meta/color" |	Democratic and Social Centre (CDS)	31,028	3.38	2.44	0	±0
bgcolor="Template:Republican Left of Catalonia/meta/color" |	Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC)	21,236	2.31	1.56	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
bgcolor="Template:Workers' Party of Spain–Communist Unity/meta/color" |	Workers' Party of Spain–Communist Unity (PTE-UC)	2,078	0.23	New	0	±0
bgcolor="Template:Spanish Falange of the JONS/meta/color" |	Spanish Falange of the JONS (FE-JONS)	1,388	0.15	0.02	0	±0
	Revolutionary Workers' Party of Spain (PORE)	1,152	0.13	0.03	0	±0
	Republican People's Unity (UPR)	1,069	0.12	New	0	±0
bgcolor="Template:Humanist Party (Spain)/meta/color" |	Humanist Platform (PH)	948	0.10	New	0	±0

Parties with less than 0.1% of the vote		2,499	0.27	–	0	±0
width="1" bgcolor="Template:Communist Unification of Spain/meta/color" |	Communist Unification of Spain (UCE)	869	0.09	New	0	±0
	Internationalist Socialist Workers' Party (POSI)	636	0.07	New	0	±0
	Social Democratic Party of Catalonia (PSDC)	566	0.06	New	0	±0
	Communist Workers' League (LOC)	428	0.05	New	0	±0
bgcolor="Template:People's Democratic Party (Spain)/meta/color" |	People's Democratic Party (PDP)	0	0.00	New	0	±0

	Blank ballots	6,879	0.75	0.75
Total		917,877	100.00		43	±0
Valid votes		917,877	99.22	0.78
Invalid votes		7,240	0.78	0.78
Votes cast / turnout		925,117	68.93	2.92
Abstentions		416,932	31.07	2.92
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%