General election in Portugal 2011
In the parliamentary elections in Portugal in 2011 on June 5, 2011, around 9.62 million Portuguese at home and abroad were called upon to redefine the 230 mandates in the Assembleia da República and thus the 19th constitutional government of Portugal after 1976 . The election became necessary after the incumbent Prime Minister José Sócrates resigned from office because his austerity package had failed to find a majority. The challenger of the re-running Sócrates was the chairman of the conservative-liberal opposition party Partido Social Democrata , Pedro Passos Coelho .
Election campaign
The main focus of the election campaign was the effects of the global economic and financial crisis and the associated financial difficulties in the state budget.
Election result
As in 2009, the PS (Socialists) had to record significant losses and only achieved 28.06%, whereupon the still incumbent Prime Minister Sócrates announced his resignation as party chairman. The previous opposition parties PSD (Liberals) and CDS – PP (Conservatives) achieved an absolute majority with 132 of the 230 parliamentary seats and started coalition negotiations. Under the impression that most decisions can no longer be made by the government due to the austerity measures of the International Monetary Fund , the turnout fell to a negative record of 58.07%. In the electoral region of Bragança, non-voters were in the majority with 50.8%, in the Azores even with 59.4%. The final result was not announced until June 15, as four seats will be awarded by Portuguese living abroad.
| Political party | be right | Seats | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| number | % | +/- | number | +/- | % | +/- | ||
| Partido Social Democrata (PSD) | 2,159,181 | 38.7 | +9.6 | 108 | +27 | 47.0 | +11.8 | |
| Partido Socialista (PS) | 1,566,347 | 28.1 | −8.5 | 74 | −23 | 32.2 | −10.0 | |
| Partido Popular (CDS-PP) | 653,888 | 11.7 | +1.3 | 24 | +3 | 10.4 | +1.3 | |
| Coligação Democrática Unitária (CDU) 1 | 441.147 | 7.9 | +0.0 | 16 | +1 | 7.0 | +0.5 | |
| Bloco de Esquerda (BE) | 288.923 | 5.2 | −4.6 | 8th | −8 | 3.5 | −3.5 | |
| Partido Comunista dos Trabalhadores Portugueses (PCTP / MRPP) | 62,610 | 1.1 | +0.2 | - | - | 0.0 | - | |
| Partido pelos Animais e pela Natureza (PAN) | 57,995 | 1.0 | - | - | - | 0.0 | - | |
| Partido da Terra (MPT) | 22,705 | 0.4 | +0.3 | - | - | 0.0 | - | |
| Movimento Esperança Portugal (MEP) | 21,942 | 0.4 | −0.1 | - | - | 0.0 | - | |
| Partido Nacional Renovador (PNR) | 17,548 | 0.3 | +0.1 | - | - | 0.0 | - | |
| Partido Trabalhista Português (PTP) | 16,895 | 0.3 | +0.2 | - | - | 0.0 | - | |
| Partido Popular Monarquico (PPM) | 14,687 | 0.3 | ± 0.0 | - | - | 0.0 | - | |
| Partido da Nova Democracia (PND) | 11.806 | 0.2 | −0.2 | - | - | 0.0 | - | |
| Portugal pro Vida (PPV) | 8,209 | 0.2 | 0.0 | - | - | 0.0 | - | |
| Partido Operário de Unidade Socialista (POUS) | 4,572 | 0.1 | 0.0 | - | - | 0.0 | - | |
| Partido Democrático do Atlântico (PDA) | 4,569 | 0.1 | - | - | - | 0.0 | - | |
| Partido Humanista (PH) | 3,588 | 0.1 | - | - | - | 0.0 | - | |
| Blank ballot 2 | 148,618 | 2.7 | +0.9 | |||||
| Invalid ballot papers 3 | 79,399 | 1.4 | +0.1 | |||||
| total | 5,585,054 | 100.0 | 230 | 100.0 | ||||
| Valid votes | 5,357,037 | 95.9 | −1.0 | |||||
| voter turnout | 5,585,054 | 58.0 | −1.65 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 9,624,354 | |||||||
| Source: National Electoral Commission | ||||||||
1 The Coligação Democrática Unitaria is a list association of the PCP , the Greens and the Intervenção Democrática (ID).
2 Empty votes are treated as invalid votes, since in this case the voter did not put a cross.
3 Invalid votes are votes that, according to Portuguese electoral law, do not clearly show the will of the electorate, for example because several parties have been ticked.
Web links
- Official website of the National Electoral Commission (CNE) (Portuguese)
- Official website of the Assembly of the Republic (Portuguese, English, French)
- RTP extrapolation
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Resultados Eleitorais . Comissão Nacional de Eleições (Portuguese)
- ↑ New government in the old corset . In: FAZ , June 4, 2011.
- ↑ Resultados das Eleições Legislativas 2011. rtp.pt, June 7, 2011, accessed on June 7, 2011 .
- ^ Portugal: The distribution of seats in parliament. euronews.net, June 6, 2011, accessed June 6, 2011 .
