Portugal 1995 legislative election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Socialist Party won 112 of 230 seats with 44.6% of the vote; 66.3% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 1.5 points on 1991.
- Portugal
- Held
Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Socialist Party | 112 | +40 | 44.6 | +14.9 | 2,583,755 |
| Social Democratic Party | 88 | −47 | 34.8 | −16.8 | 2,014,589 |
| CDS – People's Party | 15 | +10 | 9.2 | +4.7 | 534,470 |
| Unitary Democratic Coalitionwith Democratic Intervention | 0 | 0 | 8.7 | −0.2 | 506,157 |
| Portuguese Workers' Communist Party | 0 | 0.7 | 41,137 | ||
| Portuguese Communist Party | 13 | −2 | |||
| Ecology Party -- Greens | 2 | 0 |
± is the change against the Portugal 1991 legislative election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Socialist Party 2,583,755
- Social Democratic Party 2,014,589
- CDS – People's Party 534,470
- Unitary Democratic Coalition 506,157
- Portuguese Workers' Communist Party 41,137
- 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
66.3% of the 8,906,608 registered voters cast a ballot (5,904,854 ballots), down 1.5 points on 1991. 5,791,761 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
- Socialist Party44.6% of votes48.7% of seats
- Social Democratic Party34.8% of votes38.3% of seats
- CDS – People's Party9.2% of votes6.5% of seats
- Unitary Democratic Coalition8.7% of votes0.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 8.5 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.0 by votes and 2.6 by seats; Socialist Party led Social Democratic Party by 9.8 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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