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Portugal 1994 European Parliament election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Socialist Party won 10 of 25 seats with 36.0% of the vote; 35.5% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 15.6 points on 1989.

European Parliament result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
Socialist Party10+236.0+6.51,061,560
Social Democratic Party9035.5+1.71,046,918
CDS – People's Party3012.8−1.8379,044
Unitary Democratic Coalitionwith Democratic Intervention, Ecology Party -- Greens and Portuguese Communist Party3+311.6−3.3340,725
Portuguese Workers' Communist Party00.824,022

± is the change against the Portugal 1989 European Parliament election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • Socialist Party 1,061,560
  • Social Democratic Party 1,046,918
  • CDS – People's Party 379,044
  • Unitary Democratic Coalition 340,725
  • Portuguese Workers' Communist Party 24,022

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

35.5% of the 8,565,822 registered voters cast a ballot (3,044,001 ballots), down 15.6 points on 1989. 2,949,765 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Socialist Party36.0% of votes40.0% of seats
  • Social Democratic Party35.5% of votes36.0% of seats
  • CDS – People's Party12.8% of votes12.0% of seats
  • Unitary Democratic Coalition11.6% of votes12.0% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 3.0 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.5 by votes and 3.1 by seats; Socialist Party led Social Democratic Party by 0.5 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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