Parliamentary election in Portugal 1995
The Portuguese parliamentary elections took place on October 1, 1995, following the normal expiry of the General Assembly's mandate. They led to a minority government of the Socialist Party, which came back to power after 10 years of the PSD government of Cavaco Silva . As a result of the election, António Guterres was nominated as Prime Minister by the President of the Republic of Mário Soares . The turnout in this election was 66.3%
Electoral system
The seats in each constituency are divided according to the largest average method of proportional representation (PR), conceived by the Belgian mathematician Victor d'Hondt in 1899. Although there is no statutory limit on participation in the allocation of seats in the National Assembly, the application of the d' Hondt procedure creates a de facto threshold at the constituency level.
Election results
| Political party | be right | Seats | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| number | % | +/- | number | +/- | ||
| Partido Socialista | 2,583,755 | 43.8 | +14.7 | 112 | +40 | |
| Partido Social Democrata | 2,014,589 | 34.1 | −16.5 | 88 | −47 | |
| Partido Popular | 534.470 | 9.1 | +4.7 | 15th | +10 | |
| Coligação Democrática Unitária | 506.157 | 8.6 | −0.2 | 15th | −2 | |
| Partido Comunista dos Trabalhadores Portugueses | 41,137 | 0.7 | −0.2 | - | - | |
| Partido Socialista Revolucionário | 37,638 | 0.6 | −0.5 | - | - | |
| União Democrática Popular | 33,876 | 0.6 | +0.5 | - | - | |
| Partido da Solidariedade Nacional | 12,613 | 0.2 | −1.5 | - | −1 | |
| Partido da Gente | 8,279 | 0.1 | - | - | - | |
| Partido da Terra | 8,235 | 0.1 | - | - | - | |
| Partido Popular Monárquico / Partido da Terra | 5,932 | 0.1 | - | - | - | |
| Movimento para a Unidade dos Trabalhadores | 2,544 | 0.0 | - | - | - | |
| Partido Democrático do Atlântico | 2,536 | 0.0 | - | - | - | |
| Blank ballot paper | 45,793 | 0.8 | −0.0 | |||
| Invalid ballot | 67,300 | 1.1 | +0.0 | |||
| total | 5,904,854 | 100.0 | 230 | |||
| Eligible voters | 8.906.608 | |||||
| voter turnout | 66.3% | |||||
| Source: | ||||||
As a result, on October 28, 1995, the Guterres I cabinet under Prime Minister António Guterres began work.
See also
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.
- ↑ The Coligação Democrática Unitaria is a list combination of PCP and PEV, which also appeared together in the election campaign. Broken down, the PCP received ten mandates and the PEV two.
- ↑ a b Resultados Eleitorais , on eleicoes.cne.pt, accessed on January 30, 2012
