General election in Portugal 2002
The Portuguese parliamentary elections on March 17, 2002 took place after the dissolution of parliament in December 2001. They resulted in a majority of the center-right parties: PSD and CDS-PP . As a result of the election, José Manuel Barroso was appointed Prime Minister of Portugal by the President of the Republic, Jorge Sampaio . In the election, 5,473,655 valid votes were cast, which corresponds to a turnout of 61.48%.
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 legal 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 Social Democrata | 2,200,765 | 40.2 | +7.9 | 105 | +24 | |
| Partido Socialista | 2,068,584 | 37.8 | −6.3 | 96 | −19 | |
| Partido Popular | 477,350 | 8.7 | +0.4 | 14th | −1 | |
| Coligação Democrática Unitária | 379.870 | 6.9 | −2.1 | 12 | −5 | |
| Bloco de Esquerda | 149.966 | 2.7 | +0.3 | 3 | +1 | |
| Partido Comunista dos Trabalhadores Portugueses | 36,193 | 0.7 | −0.0 | - | - | |
| Partido da Terra | 15,540 | 0.3 | −0.1 | - | - | |
| Partido Popular Monárquico | 12,398 | 0.2 | −0.1 | - | - | |
| Partido Humanista | 11,472 | 0.2 | +0.1 | - | - | |
| Partido Nacional Renovador | 4,712 | 0.1 | - | - | - | |
| Partido Operário de Unidade Socialista | 4,316 | 0.1 | 0.0 | - | - | |
| Bloco de Esquerda / União Democrática Popular | 3,911 | 0.1 | - | - | - | |
| Blank ballot paper | 55.121 | 1.0 | −0.1 | |||
| Invalid ballot | 52,653 | 1.0 | +0.0 | |||
| total | 5,473,655 | 100.0 | 230 | |||
| Eligible voters | 8,902,713 | |||||
| voter turnout | 61.5% | |||||
| Source: | ||||||
See also
Web links
- Comissão Nacional de Eleições
- Conservatives win general elections. In: spiegel.de. March 18, 2002, accessed March 26, 2011 .
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 March 26, 2011
