Portugal 1985 legislative election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Social Democratic Party won 88 of 250 seats with 30.6% of the vote; 74.2% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 3.6 points on 1983.
- Portugal
- Held
Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Social Democratic Party | 88 | +13 | 30.6 | +2.7 | 1,732,288 |
| Socialist Party | 57 | −44 | 21.3 | −15.8 | 1,204,321 |
| Democratic Renewal Party | 45 | 18.4 | 1,038,893 | ||
| United People Alliance | 0 | 0 | 15.9 | −2.7 | 898,281 |
| CDS – People's Party | 22 | −8 | 10.2 | −2.7 | 577,580 |
| Popular Democratic Union | 0 | 1.3 | 73,401 | ||
| Portuguese Communist Party | 34 | −6 | |||
| Portuguese Democratic Movement | 3 | 0 | |||
| Ecology Party -- Greens | 1 | 0 |
± is the change against the Portugal 1983 legislative election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Social Democratic Party 1,732,288
- Socialist Party 1,204,321
- Democratic Renewal Party 1,038,893
- United People Alliance 898,281
- CDS – People's Party 577,580
- Popular Democratic Union 73,401
- Portuguese Communist Party
- Portuguese Democratic Movement
- Ecology Party -- Greens
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
74.2% of the 7,818,981 registered voters cast a ballot (5,798,929 ballots), down 3.6 points on 1983. 5,653,610 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout of this kind in our data, which begins in 1975. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Social Democratic Party30.6% of votes35.2% of seats
- Socialist Party21.3% of votes22.8% of seats
- Democratic Renewal Party18.4% of votes18.0% of seats
- CDS – People's Party10.2% of votes8.8% of seats
- United People Alliance15.9% of votes0.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 15.3 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 4.8 by votes and 4.3 by seats; Social Democratic Party led Socialist Party by 9.3 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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