The 1987 Rhineland-Palatinate state election was conducted on 17 May 1987 to elect members to the Landtag, the state legislature of Rhineland-Palatinate, West Germany.
|- |colspan=15| |- ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;" width=300px colspan=2|Party ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" width=50px |Vote % ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" width=50px |Vote % ñ ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" width=50px |Seats ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" width=50px |Seats ñ |- | width=5px style="background-color: " | | style="text-align:left;" | Christian Democratic Union | style="text-align:right;" | 45.1 | style="text-align:right;" | âÂÂ6.8 | style="text-align:right;" | 48 | style="text-align:right;" | âÂÂ9 |- | style="background-color: " | | style="text-align:left;" | Social Democratic Party | style="text-align:right;" | 38.8 | style="text-align:right;" | âÂÂ0.8 | style="text-align:right;" | 40 | style="text-align:right;" | âÂÂ3 |- | style="background-color: " | | style="text-align:left;" | Free Democratic Party | style="text-align:right;" | 7.3 | style="text-align:right;" | +3.8 | style="text-align:right;" | 7 | style="text-align:right;" | +7 |- | style="background-color: " | | style="text-align:left;" | The Greens | style="text-align:right;" | 5.9 | style="text-align:right;" | +1.4 | style="text-align:right;" | 5 | style="text-align:right;" | +5 |- | style="background-color: " | | style="text-align:left;" | The Republicans | style="text-align:right;" | 2.0 | style="text-align:right;" | N/A | style="text-align:right;" | 0 | style="text-align:right;" | N/A |- | style="background-color: " | | style="text-align:left;" | National Democratic Party | style="text-align:right;" | 0.8 | style="text-align:right;" | +0.7 | style="text-align:right;" | 0 | style="text-align:right;" | ñ0 |- | style="background-color: " | | style="text-align:left;" | German Communist Party | style="text-align:right;" | 0.1 | style="text-align:right;" | âÂÂ0.1 | style="text-align:right;" | 0 | style="text-align:right;" | ñ0 |- style="background: #E9E9E9" ! style="text-align:left;" colspan=2| Total | 100.0 | â | 100 | ñ0 |- | colspan=9 style="text-align:left;" | Source: parties-and-elections.de