Portugal 1989 European Parliament election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Social Democratic Party won 9 of 24 seats with 33.8% of the vote; 51.1% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 21.3 points on 1987.
- Portugal
- Held
European Parliament result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Social Democratic Party | 9 | −1 | 33.8 | −4.6 | 1,358,958 |
| Socialist Party | 8 | +2 | 29.4 | +6.4 | 1,184,380 |
| Unitary Democratic Coalitionwith Democratic Intervention | 0 | −3 | 14.9 | +3.1 | 597,759 |
| CDS – People's Party | 3 | −1 | 14.6 | −1.2 | 587,497 |
| People's Monarchist Party | 0 | 0 | 2.1 | −0.7 | 84,272 |
| Portuguese Democratic Movement | 0 | 1.4 | 56,900 | ||
| Popular Democratic Union | 0 | 1.1 | 45,017 | ||
| Portuguese Communist Party | 3 | ||||
| Ecology Party -- Greens | 1 |
± is the change against the Portugal 1987 European Parliament election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Social Democratic Party 1,358,958
- Socialist Party 1,184,380
- Unitary Democratic Coalition 597,759
- CDS – People's Party 587,497
- People's Monarchist Party 84,272
- Portuguese Democratic Movement 56,900
- Popular Democratic Union 45,017
- Portuguese Communist Party
- 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.
ParlGov counts an alliance's votes and seats under its first party: such a row names the allies it counts.
Share of the vote
Turnout
51.1% of the 8,121,564 registered voters cast a ballot (4,149,756 ballots), down 21.3 points on 1987. 4,022,000 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Social Democratic Party33.8% of votes37.5% of seats
- Socialist Party29.4% of votes33.3% of seats
- CDS – People's Party14.6% of votes12.5% of seats
- Unitary Democratic Coalition14.9% of votes0.0% of seats
- People's Monarchist Party2.1% of votes0.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 14.8 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 4.1 by votes and 3.5 by seats; Social Democratic Party led Socialist Party by 4.3 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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