Portugal 1987 legislative election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Social Democratic Party won 148 of 250 seats with 51.3% of the vote; 71.6% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 2.6 points on 1985.
- Portugal
- Held
Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Social Democratic Party | 148 | +60 | 51.3 | +20.7 | 2,850,784 |
| Socialist Party | 60 | +3 | 22.7 | +1.4 | 1,262,506 |
| Unitary Democratic Coalition | 0 | 12.4 | 689,137 | ||
| Democratic Renewal Party | 7 | −38 | 5.0 | −13.4 | 278,561 |
| CDS – People's Party | 4 | −18 | 4.5 | −5.7 | 251,987 |
| Popular Democratic Union | 0 | 0 | 0.9 | −0.4 | 50,717 |
| Portuguese Communist Party | 28 | −6 | |||
| Democratic Intervention | 2 | ||||
| Ecology Party -- Greens | 1 | 0 |
± is the change against the Portugal 1985 legislative election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Social Democratic Party 2,850,784
- Socialist Party 1,262,506
- Unitary Democratic Coalition 689,137
- Democratic Renewal Party 278,561
- CDS – People's Party 251,987
- Popular Democratic Union 50,717
- Portuguese Communist Party
- Democratic Intervention
- 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
71.6% of the 7,930,668 registered voters cast a ballot (5,676,358 ballots), down 2.6 points on 1985. 5,552,690 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 Party51.3% of votes59.2% of seats
- Socialist Party22.7% of votes24.0% of seats
- Democratic Renewal Party5.0% of votes2.8% of seats
- CDS – People's Party4.5% of votes1.6% of seats
- Unitary Democratic Coalition12.4% of votes0.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 13.4 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.0 by votes and 2.4 by seats; Social Democratic Party led Socialist Party by 28.6 points of the vote. How these are computed.
On the same day
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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