Portugal 1991 legislative election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Social Democratic Party won 135 of 230 seats with 51.6% of the vote; 67.8% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 3.8 points on 1987.
- Portugal
- Held
Result
- Social Democratic Party135
- Socialist Party72
- Portuguese Communist Party15
- CDS – People's Party5
- Ecology Party -- Greens2
- National Solidarity Party1
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Social Democratic Party | 135 | −13 | 51.6 | +0.3 | 2,902,351 |
| Socialist Party | 72 | +12 | 29.7 | +7.0 | 1,670,758 |
| Unitary Democratic Coalitionwith Democratic Intervention | 0 | 0 | 9.0 | −3.4 | 504,583 |
| CDS – People's Party | 5 | +1 | 4.5 | 0.0 | 254,317 |
| National Solidarity Party | 1 | 1.7 | 96,096 | ||
| Revolutionary Socialist Party | 0 | 1.1 | 64,159 | ||
| Portuguese Communist Party | 15 | −13 | |||
| Ecology Party -- Greens | 2 | +1 |
± is the change against the Portugal 1987 legislative election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Social Democratic Party 2,902,351
- Socialist Party 1,670,758
- Unitary Democratic Coalition 504,583
- CDS – People's Party 254,317
- National Solidarity Party 96,096
- Revolutionary Socialist Party 64,159
- 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
67.8% of the 8,462,357 registered voters cast a ballot (5,735,431 ballots), down 3.8 points on 1987. 5,624,759 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 Party51.6% of votes58.7% of seats
- Socialist Party29.7% of votes31.3% of seats
- CDS – People's Party4.5% of votes2.2% of seats
- National Solidarity Party1.7% of votes0.4% of seats
- Unitary Democratic Coalition9.0% of votes0.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 9.6 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.7 by votes and 2.2 by seats; Social Democratic Party led Socialist Party by 21.9 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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