Madrid City Council election, 1987

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10 June 1987

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All 55 seats in the Madrid City Council
28 seats needed for a majority

Registered

2,376,010

0.3%

Turnout

1,664,580 (70.1%)

0.7 pp

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Juan Barranco	José María Álvarez del Manzano	Agustín Rodríguez Sahagún
Party	PSOE	AP	CDS
Leader since	19 January 1986	10 October 1986	16 February 1987
Leader's seat	Madrid	Madrid	Madrid
Last election	30 seats, 48.7%	23 seats, 38.0%	0 seats, 3.0%
Seats won	24	20	8
Seat change	6	3	8
Popular vote	666,199	555,599	247,773
Percentage	40.5%	33.8%	15.1%
Swing	8.2 pp	4.2 pp	12.1 pp

	Fourth party

Leader	Ramón Tamames
Party	IU
Leader since	19 December 1986
Leader's seat	Madrid
Last election	4 seats, 6.9%
Seats won	3
Seat change	1
Popular vote	100,514
Percentage	6.1%
Swing	0.8 pp

Mayor before election

Juan Barranco
PSOE

Elected Mayor

Juan Barranco
PSOE

The 1987 Madrid City Council election was held on Wednesday, 10 June 1987, to elect the city council of the municipality of Madrid. All 55 seats in the City Council were up for election.

The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) won the election, but lost its absolute majority and lost 137,000 votes compared to 1983. The People's Alliance (AP), which stood separately after the breakup of the People's Coalition in 1986, failed to meet the level of support reached by the coalition in 1983 and also lost votes and seats. Benefitting from both parties' losses was the Democratic and Social Centre (CDS), which, with its 8 seats and 15% of the votes, entered the City Council for its first and only time and went on to hold the balance of power. United Left (IU), an electoral coalition comprising the Communist Party of Spain and other left-wing parties, continued on its long-term decline and lost 1 more seat, barely obtaining 100,000 votes and 6% of the share.

AP and CDS together reached an absolute majority, but failure on reaching an agreement resulted in Socialist Juan Barranco being re-elected as mayor. However, on June 1989, both parties agreed to present a motion of censure on Barranco and elect Agustín Rodríguez Sahagún from the CDS as new mayor, ousting the PSOE from power in the city after a 10-year rule.

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