General election in Portugal 1976
- UDP : 1
- PCP : 40
- PS : 107
- PPD : 73
- CDS : 42
The 1976 parliamentary elections in Portugal took place on April 25 amid a climate of fierce political fighting over the future path of the 1974 Carnation Revolution . Demonstrations, strikes and bombings increasingly determined the conflicts between the various political directions. It was the first election in Portugal, based on the new democratic constitution adopted on April 2nd, which replaced the previous one from the times of the Estado Novo . The country found itself in a grave economic and financial situation characterized by galloping and uncontrollable inflation and growing unemployment.
In the elections, the Social Democratic Socialist Party won , which was slightly below the results of 1975. Even the conservative-liberal Democratic People's Party (PPD), which was renamed the Social Democratic Party (PSD) in 1976 , failed to improve its results from 1975. The right-wing conservative Social and Democratic Center (CDS), which on April 2 opposed the adoption of the had voted in his view of the “socialist constitution”, was able to achieve his election goal and become stronger than the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP), which also improved its election results .
With these results, the four main political forces established themselves in Portuguese politics for the following decades.
It was only after the presidential election on June 27 that the newly elected President, Ramalho Eanes , supported by the PS, PPD and CDS, entrusted the chairman of the PS, Mário Soares , with the formation of the first constitutional government. Soares formed a minority government supported by the PS, made up of socialists, the military and independent experts, which began its work on July 23, 1976 and operated until December 1977.
The turnout was 83.53%. The counting was done according to the D'Hondt method .
Election results
| Political party | be right | Seats | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| number | % | +/- | number | +/- | ||
| Partido Socialista | 1,912,921 | 34.9 | −3.0 | 107 | −9 | |
| Partido Popular Democrático | 1,335,381 | 24.4 | −2.0 | 73 | −8 | |
| Centro Democrático e Social | 876.077 | 16.0 | +8.4 | 42 | +26 | |
| Partido Comunista Português | 788.830 | 14.4 | +1.9 | 40 | +10 | |
| União Democrática Popular | 91,690 | 1.7 | +0.9 | 1 | - | |
| Frente Socialista Popular | 42,162 | 0.8 | −0.4 | - | - | |
| Partido Comunista dos Trabalhadores Portugueses | 36,200 | 0.7 | - | - | - | |
| Movimento de Esquerda Socialista | 31,332 | 0.6 | −0.4 | - | - | |
| Partido da Democracia Cristã | 29,874 | 0.5 | - | - | - | |
| Partido Popular Monárquico | 28,320 | 0.5 | −0.1 | - | - | |
| Liga Comunista Internacionalista | 16,269 | 0.3 | +0.1 | - | - | |
| Partido Comunista de Portugal (marxista-leninista) | 15,830 | 0.3 | - | - | - | |
| Aliança Operário-Camponesa | 15,778 | 0.3 | - | - | - | |
| Partido Socialista Revolucionário | 5,171 | 0.1 | - | - | - | |
| Invalid ballot | 257,696 | 4.7 | −2.3 | |||
| total | 5,483,461 | 100.0 | 263 | +13 | ||
| Eligible voters | 6,564,667 | |||||
| voter turnout | 83.5% | |||||
| Source: | ||||||
See also
literature
- António Henrique de Oliveira Marques : History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 385). Translated from the Portuguese by Michael von Killisch-Horn. Kröner, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-520-38501-5 .
Web links
- Comissão Nacional de Eleições Official website of the Electoral Commission
- Politics and government Wir-in-Portugal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Deputados e Grupos Parlamentares ( Memento of the original of July 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Marques, 2001: 645
- ^ Marques, 2001: 649
- ↑ a b Resultados Eleitorais , on eleicoes.cne.pt, accessed on January 30, 2012
