Portugal 1980 legislative election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Social Democratic Party won 82 of 250 seats; 83.9% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 1.1 points on 1979.
- Portugal
- Held
Result
- Social Democratic Party82
- Socialist Party66
- CDS – People's Party46
- Portuguese Communist Party39
- People's Monarchist Party6
- Independent Social Democrats4
- Leftwing Union for the Socialist Democracy4
- Portuguese Democratic Movement2
- Popular Democratic Union1
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic Alliance | 0 | 0 | 47.6 | +3.9 | 2,868,076 |
| Socialist Party | 66 | −8 | 27.8 | −0.3 | 1,673,279 |
| United People Alliance | 0 | 0 | 17.1 | −2.2 | 1,009,505 |
| Popular Democratic Union | 1 | 0 | 1.4 | −0.8 | 83,204 |
| Workers' Party of Socialist Unity | 0 | 1.4 | 83,095 | ||
| Revolutionary Socialist Party | 0 | 1.0 | 60,496 | ||
| Social Democratic Party | 82 | +7 | |||
| CDS – People's Party | 46 | +3 | |||
| Portuguese Communist Party | 39 | −5 | |||
| People's Monarchist Party | 6 | +1 | |||
| Independent Social Democrats | 4 | ||||
| Leftwing Union for the Socialist Democracy | 4 | ||||
| Portuguese Democratic Movement | 2 | −1 |
± is the change against the Portugal 1979 legislative election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Democratic Alliance 2,868,076
- Socialist Party 1,673,279
- United People Alliance 1,009,505
- Popular Democratic Union 83,204
- Workers' Party of Socialist Unity 83,095
- Revolutionary Socialist Party 60,496
- Social Democratic Party
- CDS – People's Party
- Portuguese Communist Party
- People's Monarchist Party
- Independent Social Democrats
- Leftwing Union for the Socialist Democracy
- Portuguese Democratic Movement
ParlGov lists parties with at least 1 percent of the vote or 2 seats, so the rows do not add up to the valid votes. How we read it.
Share of the vote
Turnout
83.9% of the 7,179,023 registered voters cast a ballot (6,026,395 ballots), up 1.1 points on 1979. 5,888,733 of them were valid votes. The highest turnout since 1975 in our data. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Socialist Party27.8% of votes26.4% of seats
- Popular Democratic Union1.4% of votes0.4% of seats
- Democratic Alliance47.6% of votes0.0% of seats
- United People Alliance17.1% of votes0.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 46.0 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.0 by votes and 4.2 by seats; Democratic Alliance led Socialist Party by 19.8 points of the vote. How these are computed.
Sources and licence
Sources and licence
- ParlGov 2024 Release (Döring and Manow), Harvard Dataverse (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
- Wikidata, party colours (P465) (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
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