General election in Portugal 1983

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1980Parliament election 19831985
(in %)
 %
40
30th
20th
10
0
36.11
27.24
18.07
12.56
0.48
2.96
2.57
APU
UDP
Otherwise. f
L / U g
Gains and losses
compared to 1980
 % p
 15th
 10
   5
   0
  -5
-10
-15
-20
-25
+8.35
-20.12
+1.32
+12.33
-0.90
-1.47
+0.29
APU
UDP
Otherwise. f
L / U g
Template: election chart / maintenance / notes
Remarks:
a The PS results are compared with the results of the three-party "Republican and Socialist Front" (FRS) in the 1980 election
b The PSD participated in the 1980 election as part of the AD coalition
d The CDS participated in the 1980 election as part of the AD coalition
f The parties of the AD coalition competed separately.
g Blank or invalid ballot papers
44
101
75
30th
44 101 75 30th 
A total of 250 seats
  • APU : 44
  • PS : 101
  • PSD : 75
  • CDS : 30
Palácio de São Bento , the seat of the Portuguese parliament

The parliamentary elections in Portugal in 1983 took place on April 25th.

It became necessary because Francisco Sá Carneiro's successor in the post of Prime Minister, Francisco Pinto Balsemão , resigned in December 1982 and the PSD- supported successor candidate, the MFA member, Vítor Crespo, was rejected by President António Ramalho Eanes . The President dissolved parliament in February 1983, although a majority of the State Council had opposed it. This meant that new elections were due.

This was also the end of a process of disintegration of the previous governing coalition of the AD , which lasted several months . Also in February 1983, the group of 44 within the PSD pushed through their opinion that the party should run in the upcoming elections without its previous two allies from the AD. This process of alienation was also reflected in important personnel decisions of the former AD parties in March 1983. At the 10th Congress of Social Democrats (PSD), Pinto Balsemão was replaced by Nuno Rodrigues dos Santos as President of the National Political Commission, during the 5th party congress of the CDS elected Francisco Lucas Pires as President.

The Socialist Party (PS) had reorganized its forces during the opposition years, especially since both the center-right government under Pinto Balsemão in the constitutional reform passed in August 1982 and President Eanes in his re-election in December 1980 on the support were instructed by the socialists. The PS therefore felt strong enough to run the elections without an alliance partner. Of the electoral coalitions of the past few years, only the APU, consisting of communists and MPD / CDE , re-emerged, which was reinforced by the Green Party , which was newly founded in 1982 .

On April 25, the Socialists had become the strongest party, but had missed an absolute majority. But the mandates of the two former governing parties PDS and CDS were not sufficient for a government to be formed, especially since the third former governing party, the small Monarchist People's Party , lost all political importance with a share of only 0.5% of the vote. In this situation, in a member survey of the Socialist Party, the majority decided to start coalition negotiations with the PSD. The new leadership of the PSD Social Democrats under Carlos Mota Pinto also signaled their willingness to negotiate in early May 1983. At the end of May, the leader of the strongest party, the General Secretary of the Socialists Mário Soares , was entrusted by the President with forming a government. At the beginning of June the PS and PSD adopted a declaration on the formation of a joint government. This center-left alliance, quickly referred to as “Bloco Central” in public, had a solid base with 176 of 250 MPs.

On June 9, 1983, Mario Soares took up the post of Prime Minister for the second time. Carlos Mota Pinto, one of the three vice presidents of the PSD and one of the key advocates of the coalition with the socialists, joined this government as deputy prime minister and defense minister. The former ambassador of Portugal to the United Nations , José Veiga Simão (PS), took on a difficult task as Minister of Industry and Energy. This government remained in office until the October 6, 1985 elections.

The turnout was 77.79%. The counting was done according to the D'Hondt method .

Election results

Political party be right Seats
number % +/- number +/-
  Partido Socialista 2,061,309 36.1 +8.4 101 +27
  Partido Social Democrata 1,554,804 27.2 - 75 −7
  Aliança Povo Unido 1,031,609 18.1 +1.3 44 +3
  Centro Democrático e Social 716.705 12.6 - 30th −16
  Partido da Democracia Cristã 39,180 0.7 - - -
  Partido Popular Monárquico 27,635 0.5 - - −6
  União Democrática Popular 27,260 0.5 −0.9 - −1
  União Democrática Popular / Partido Socialista Revolucionário 25,222 0.4 - - -
  Partido Comunista dos Trabalhadores Portugueses 20,995 0.4 −0.2 - -
  Partido Operário de Unidade Socialista 19,657 0.3 −1.1 - -
  Partido Socialista Revolucionário 13,327 0.2 −0.8 - -
  Frente da Esquerda Revolucionária 11,500 0.2 - - -
  Organização Comunista Marxista-Leninista Portuguesa 6.113 0.1 +0.0 - -
  Partido Democrático do Atlântico 5,523 0.1 −0.0 - -
  Partido Comunista (Reconstruído) 86 0.0 −0.2 - -
  Blank ballot paper 42,494 0.7 +0.1
  Invalid ballot 104.276 1.8 +0.1
  total 5,707,695 100.0 250
Eligible voters 7,337,064
voter turnout 77.8%
Source:

See also

Individual evidence

  1. 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.parlamento.pt
  2. a b Resultados Eleitorais , on eleicoes.cne.pt, accessed on January 30, 2012
  3. ^ Mapa oficial. DR n.º 121, Suplemento, Série I de May 26, 1983 (PDF file; 321 kB)

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