General election in Portugal 1999
The Portuguese parliamentary elections on October 10, 1999 were held after the normal expiry of the General Assembly mandate. They led to a minority government of the Socialist Party, which only lacked one MP for a majority. As a result of the election, António Guterres was again Prime Minister under the President of the Republic of Jorge Sampaio . In the election, 5,415,102 votes were cast, which corresponds to a turnout of 61.09%.
Electoral system
The seats in each constituency are divided according to d`Hondt's maximum number method, the largest proportional representation (PR), which was conceived by the Belgian mathematician Victor d'Hondt in 1899. Although there is no legal limit on participation in the allocation of seats in the National Assembly, the application of the d' Hondt procedure introduces a de facto threshold at the constituency level.
Election results
| Political party | be right | Seats | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| number | % | +/- | number | +/- | ||
| Partido Socialista | 2,385,922 | 44.1 | +0.3 | 115 | +3 | |
| Partido Social Democrata | 1,750,158 | 32.3 | −1.8 | 81 | −7 | |
| Coligação Democrática Unitária | 487.058 | 9.0 | +0.4 | 17th | +2 | |
| Partido Popular | 451,643 | 8.3 | −0.7 | 15th | - | |
| Bloco de Esquerda | 132,333 | 2.4 | +2.4 | 2 | +2 | |
| Partido Comunista dos Trabalhadores Portugueses | 40.006 | 0.7 | +0.0 | - | - | |
| Partido da Terra | 19,938 | 0.4 | +0.3 | - | - | |
| Partido Popular Monárquico | 16,522 | 0.3 | - | - | - | |
| Partido da Solidariedade Nacional | 11,488 | 0.2 | 0.0 | - | - | |
| Partido Humanista | 7,346 | 0.1 | - | - | - | |
| Partido Operário de Unidade Socialista | 4,104 | 0.1 | +0.1 | - | - | |
| Partido Democrático do Atlântico | 438 | 0.0 | −0.0 | - | - | |
| Blank ballot paper | 56,964 | 1.1 | +0.3 | |||
| Invalid ballot | 51,230 | 1.0 | −0.1 | |||
| total | 5,415,102 | 100.0 | 230 | |||
| Eligible voters | 8,864,604 | |||||
| voter turnout | 61.1% | |||||
| Source: | ||||||
As a result, the Guterres II cabinet under Prime Minister António Guterres began work on October 25, 1999 .
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
