Portugal 1999 legislative election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Socialist Party won 115 of 230 seats with 45.0% of the vote; 61.1% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 5.2 points on 1995.
- Portugal
- Held
Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Socialist Party | 115 | +3 | 45.0 | +0.3 | 2,385,922 |
| Social Democratic Party | 81 | −7 | 33.0 | −1.8 | 1,750,158 |
| Unitary Democratic Coalitionwith Democratic Intervention | 0 | 0 | 9.2 | +0.4 | 487,058 |
| CDS – People's Party | 15 | 0 | 8.5 | −0.7 | 451,643 |
| Left Bloc | 2 | 2.5 | 132,333 | ||
| Portuguese Workers' Communist Party | 0 | 0 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 40,006 |
| Portuguese Communist Party | 15 | +2 | |||
| Ecology Party -- Greens | 2 | 0 |
± is the change against the Portugal 1995 legislative election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Socialist Party 2,385,922
- Social Democratic Party 1,750,158
- Unitary Democratic Coalition 487,058
- CDS – People's Party 451,643
- Left Bloc 132,333
- Portuguese Workers' Communist Party 40,006
- 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
61.1% of the 8,864,604 registered voters cast a ballot (5,415,102 ballots), down 5.2 points on 1995. 5,306,908 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 Party45.0% of votes50.0% of seats
- Social Democratic Party33.0% of votes35.2% of seats
- CDS – People's Party8.5% of votes6.5% of seats
- Left Bloc2.5% of votes0.9% of seats
- Unitary Democratic Coalition9.2% of votes0.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 9.1 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.1 by votes and 2.6 by seats; Socialist Party led Social Democratic Party by 12.0 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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