Politics of Portugal - Political Parties and Elections

Political Parties and Elections

For other political parties see List of political parties in Portugal. An overview on elections and election results is included in Elections in Portugal.

e • d **Summary of the 5 June 2011 Assembly of the Republic elections results**
Parties		Votes	%	±pp swing	MPs					MPs %/ votes %
Parties		Votes	%	±pp swing	2009	2011	±	%	±	MPs %/ votes %
	Social Democratic	2,159,181	38.66	9.6	81	108	27	46.96	11.7	1.21
	Socialist	1,566,347	28.05	8.5	97	74	23	32.17	10.0	1.15
	People's Party	653,888	11.71	1.3	21	24	3	10.43	1.3	0.89
	Democratic Unity Coalition	441,147	7.90	0.0	15	16	1	6.96	0.4	0.88
	Left Bloc	288,923	5.17	4.6	16	8	8	3.48	3.5	0.67
	PCTP/MRPP	62,610	1.12	0.2	0	0	0	0.00	0.0	0.0
	Party for Animals and Nature	57,995	1.04	—	—	0	—	0.00	—	0.0
	Earth Party	22,705	0.41	0.3	0	0	0	0.00	0.0	0.0
	Hope for Portugal Movement	21,942	0.39	0.1	0	0	0	0.00	0.0	0.0
	National Renovator Party	17,548	0.31	0.1	0	0	0	0.00	0.0	0.0
	Portuguese Labour Party	16,895	0.30	0.2	0	0	0	0.00	0.0	0.0
	People's Monarchist Party	14,687	0.26	0.0	0	0	0	0.00	0.0	0.0
	New Democracy	11,806	0.21	0.2	0	0	0	0.00	0.0	0.0
	Portugal pro life	8,209	0.15	0.0	0	0	0	0.00	0.0	0.0
	Workers Party of Socialist Unity	4,572	0.08	0.0	0	0	0	0.00	0.0	0.0
	Democratic Party of the Atlantic	4,569	0.08	—	—	0	—	0.00	—	0.0
	Humanist Party	3,588	0.06	—	—	0	—	0.00	—	0.0
Total valid		5,357,037	95.92	1.0	230	230	0	100.00	0.0	—
Blank ballots		148,618	2.66	0.9
Invalid ballots		79,399	1.42	0.1
Total (turnout 58.03%)		5,585,054	100.00	1.7

Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições

e • d **Summary of the 23 January 2011 Portuguese presidential election results**
Candidates		Supporting parties	First round
Candidates		Supporting parties	Votes	%
	Aníbal Cavaco Silva	Social Democratic Party, People's Party, Hope for Portugal Movement	2,231,956	52.95
	Manuel Alegre	Socialist Party, Left Bloc, Democratic Party of the Atlantic, PCTP/MRPP	831,838	19.74
	Fernando Nobre	Independent	593,021	14.07
	Francisco Lopes	Portuguese Communist Party, Ecologist Party "The Greens"	301,017	7.14
	José Manuel Coelho	New Democracy Party	189,918	4.51
	Defensor Moura	Independent	67,110	1.59
Total valid			4,214,860	100.00
Blank ballots			192,127	4.28
Invalid ballots			85,466	1.90
Total (turnout 46.52%)			4,492,453
Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições

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