Extremaduran regional election, 1987

Extremaduran regional election, 1987

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All 65 seats in the Assembly of Extremadura 33 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered	808,654 2.9%
Turnout	601,597 (74.4%) 2.5 pp
First party Second party Third party   Leader Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra Adolfo Díaz-Ambrona Tomás Martín Tamayo Party PSOE AP CDS Leader since 20 December 1982 1976 1983 Leader's seat Badajoz Badajoz Badajoz Last election 35 seats, 53.0% 20 seats, 30.1% 0 seats, 0.8% Seats won 34 17 8 Seat change 1 3 8 Popular vote 292,935 144,117 73,554 Percentage 49.2% 24.2% 12.4% Swing 3.8 pp 5.9 pp 11.6 pp   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader Pedro Cañada Manuel Pareja Party EU IU Leader since 10 December 1980 1983 Leader's seat Cáceres Badajoz Last election 6 seats, 8.5% 4 seats, 6.5% Seats won 4 2 Seat change 2 2 Popular vote 34,606 32,240 Percentage 5.8% 5.4% Swing 2.7 pp 1.1 pp
Constituency results map for the Assembly of Extremadura
President before election Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra PSOE Elected President Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra PSOE

Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra
PSOE

Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra
PSOE

The 1987 Extremaduran regional election was held on Wednesday, 10 June 1987, to elect the 2nd Assembly of the Autonomous Community of Extremadura. All 65 seats in the Assembly were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in twelve other autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain, as well as the 1987 European Parliament election.

The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) won the election with a new absolute majority of seats, albeit losing 1 seat from its 1983 result. The People's Alliance (AP), which had undergone an internal crisis after the breakup of the People's Coalition in 1986, lost support and fell from the coalition's 30% of the share to 24%, losing 3 seats as a result.

The main election winner was the centrist Democratic and Social Centre (CDS), a party led by the former Spanish Prime Minister Adolfo Suarez, which entered the Assembly for the first with 8 seats and 12% of the vote, becoming the only party within the Assembly that made gains, as all others (including regionalist United Extremadura (EU)) lost votes. United Left, an electoral coalition comprising the Communist Party of Spain and other left-wing parties, also lost 2 seats.