Under the
1981 Statute of Autonomy, the
Parliament of Andalusia was the
unicameral legislature of the
homonymous autonomous community, having legislative power in
devolved matters, as well as the ability to grant or withdraw confidence from a
regional president. The electoral and procedural rules were supplemented by
national law provisions.
Date The term of the Parliament of Andalusia expired four years after the date of its previous election. The election
decree was required to be issued no later than 25 days before the scheduled expiration date of parliament and published on the following day in the
Official Gazette of the Regional Government of Andalusia (BOJA), with
election day taking place between 54 and 60 days after the decree's publication (and in any case within from 30 to 60 days after the parliament's expiration). The
previous election was held on 23 May 1982, which meant that the chamber's term would have expired on 23 May 1986. The election decree was required to be published in the BOJA no later than 28 April 1986, setting the latest possible date for election day on 27 June 1986. The Parliament could not be
dissolved before the expiration date of parliament. The election to the Parliament of Andalusia was officially called on 29 April 1986 with the publication of the corresponding decree in the BOJA, setting election day for 22 June and scheduling for the chamber to reconvene on 17 July.
Electoral system Voting for the Parliament was based on
universal suffrage, comprising all
Spanish nationals over 18 years of age, registered in Andalusia and with full
political rights, provided that they had not been
deprived of the right to vote by a final
sentence, nor were
legally incapacitated. The Parliament of Andalusia had a minimum of 90 and a maximum of 110 seats, with electoral provisions fixing its size at 109. All were elected in eight
multi-member constituencies—corresponding to the
provinces of
Almería,
Cádiz,
Córdoba,
Granada,
Huelva,
Jaén,
Málaga and
Seville, each of which was assigned an initial minimum of eight seats and the remaining 45 distributed in proportion to population (with the number of seats in each province not exceeding two times that of any other)—using the
D'Hondt method and
closed-list proportional voting, with a three percent-
threshold of valid votes (including
blank ballots) in each constituency. The use of this electoral method resulted in a higher
effective threshold depending on
district magnitude and vote distribution. As a result of the aforementioned allocation, each Parliament constituency was entitled the following seats: The law did not provide for
by-elections to fill
vacant seats; instead, any vacancies arising after the proclamation of candidates and during the legislative term were filled by the next candidates on the
party lists or, when required, by designated
substitutes.
Outgoing parliament The table below shows the composition of the
parliamentary groups in the chamber at the time of the election call. ==Parties and candidates==