This is the results breakdown of the
European Parliament election held in
Spain on 10 June 1987. The following tables show detailed results in each of the country's 17
autonomous communities and in the autonomous cities of
Ceuta and
Melilla
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.
Electoral system
The 60 members of the
European Parliament allocated to Spain as per the
1985 Treaty of Accession were elected using the
D'Hondt method and a
closed list
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proportional representation, with no
electoral threshold being applied in order to be entitled to enter seat distribution. Seats were allocated to a single multi-member constituency comprising the entire
national territory
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. Voting was on the basis of
universal suffrage, which comprised all nationals over eighteen and in full enjoyment of their political rights.
The use of the D'Hondt method might result in an effective threshold depending on the
district magnitude.
The electoral law allowed for
parties and
federations
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registered in the
interior ministry
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Lists of current ministries of internal affairs
Named "ministry"
* Ministry ...
,
coalitions and
groupings of electors to present lists of candidates. Parties and federations intending to form a coalition ahead of an election were required to inform the relevant Electoral Commission within ten days of the election call. In order to be entitled to run, parties, federations, coalitions and groupings of electors needed to secure the signature of at least 15,000 registered electors; this requirement could be lifted and replaced through the signature of at least 50 elected officials—
deputies,
senators,
MEPs
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When the European Parliament (then known as the Common Assembly of the ECSC) first met in 1952, its ...
or members from the legislative assemblies of
autonomous communities or from Municipalities of Spain, local city councils. Electors and elected officials were disallowed from signing for more than one list of candidates.
Nationwide
Autonomous communities
Andalusia
Aragon
Asturias
Balearics
Basque Country
Canary Islands
Cantabria
Castile and León
Castilla–La Mancha
Catalonia
Extremadura
Galicia
La Rioja
Madrid
Murcia
Navarre
Valencian Community
Autonomous cities
Ceuta
Melilla
Congress of Deputies projection
A projection of European Parliament election results using electoral rules for the Congress of Deputies would have given the following seat allocation, as distributed per constituencies and regions (note that results are compared with party totals in the preceding general election—held in 1986 Spanish general election, June 1986—for consistency):
Constituencies
Regions
References
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Results breakdown of European Parliament elections in Spain, 1987
1987 elections in Spain, European Parliament