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Portugal 1999 European Parliament election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Socialist Party won 12 of 25 seats with 44.5% of the vote; 39.9% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 4.4 points on 1994.

European Parliament result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
Socialist Party12+244.5+8.51,493,146
Social Democratic Party9032.2−3.31,078,528
Unitary Democratic Coalitionwith Ecology Party -- Greens and Democratic Intervention0−310.7−0.9357,671
CDS – People's Party2−18.4−4.4283,067
Left Bloc01.961,920
Portuguese Communist Party2

± is the change against the Portugal 1994 European Parliament election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • Socialist Party 1,493,146
  • Social Democratic Party 1,078,528
  • Unitary Democratic Coalition 357,671
  • CDS – People's Party 283,067
  • Left Bloc 61,920
  • Portuguese Communist Party

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

39.9% of the 8,681,854 registered voters cast a ballot (3,467,085 ballots), up 4.4 points on 1994. 3,353,951 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Socialist Party44.5% of votes48.0% of seats
  • Social Democratic Party32.2% of votes36.0% of seats
  • CDS – People's Party8.4% of votes8.0% of seats
  • Unitary Democratic Coalition10.7% of votes0.0% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 10.2 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.1 by votes and 2.7 by seats; Socialist Party led Social Democratic Party by 12.4 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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