European Parliament election, 1987 (Spain)

European Parliament election in Spain, 1987

10 June 1987 1989 →
All 60 Spanish seats to the European Parliament
Registered	28,450,491
Turnout	19,494,098 (68.5%)
First party Second party Third party   Leader Fernando Morán Manuel Fraga Eduard Punset Party PSOE AP CDS Alliance SOC ED NI Leader since 10 April 1987 16 March 1987 30 April 1987 Leader's seat Spain Spain Spain Seats won 28 17 7 Popular vote 7,522,706 4,747,283 1,976,093 Percentage 39.1% 24.6% 10.3%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Fernando Pérez Royo Carles Gasòliba Txema Montero Party IU CiU HB Alliance COM LDR/EPP NI Leader since 25 April 1987 1987 28 April 1987 Leader's seat Spain Spain Spain Seats won 3 3 1 Popular vote 1,011,830 853,603 360,952 Percentage 5.3% 4.4% 1.9%
Provincial results map for the European Parliament in Spain

The 1987 European Parliament election in Spain was held on Wednesday, 10 June 1987, to elect the country's 1st MEP delegation to the European Parliament. All 60 seats allocated to Spain as per the 1985 Treaty of Accession were up for election. Spain had acceded the European Community on 1 January 1986 and had been represented in the European Parliament by 60 temporarily-appointed delegates until a proper election could be held. Since a European-wide election was not due until 1989, elected MEPs only served for the remainder of the 1984–89 term of the European Parliament. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in 12 other autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain.

The main opposition People's Alliance party (AP), running on its own after the People's Democratic Party (PDP) and Liberal Party (PL) broke away from the People's Coalition, choose Manuel Fraga—who had resigned as party leader in December 1986—to lead the party list.Adolfo Suárez had considered running as main candidate for his Democratic and Social Centre party (CDS), but declined after the electoral law was amended by the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers' Party to make elected MEPs incompatible for posts in the Cortes Generales—Suárez was deputy in the Congress of Deputies, and would have been forced to renounce one of the two offices if elected—.