Portugal 2002 legislative election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Social Democratic Party won 105 of 230 seats with 41.0% of the vote; 61.5% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 0.4 points on 1999.
- Portugal
- Held
Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Social Democratic Party | 105 | +24 | 41.0 | +8.0 | 2,200,765 |
| Socialist Party | 96 | −19 | 38.5 | −6.4 | 2,068,584 |
| CDS – People's Party | 14 | −1 | 8.9 | +0.4 | 477,350 |
| Unitary Democratic Coalitionwith Democratic Intervention | 0 | 0 | 7.1 | −2.1 | 379,870 |
| Left Bloc | 3 | +1 | 2.8 | +0.3 | 149,966 |
| Portuguese Workers' Communist Party | 0 | 0 | 0.7 | −0.1 | 36,193 |
| Portuguese Communist Party | 10 | −5 | |||
| Ecology Party -- Greens | 2 | 0 |
± is the change against the Portugal 1999 legislative election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Social Democratic Party 2,200,765
- Socialist Party 2,068,584
- CDS – People's Party 477,350
- Unitary Democratic Coalition 379,870
- Left Bloc 149,966
- Portuguese Workers' Communist Party 36,193
- 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
61.5% of the 8,902,713 registered voters cast a ballot (5,473,655 ballots), up 0.4 points on 1999. 5,365,881 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Social Democratic Party41.0% of votes45.7% of seats
- Socialist Party38.5% of votes41.7% of seats
- CDS – People's Party8.9% of votes6.1% of seats
- Left Bloc2.8% of votes1.3% of seats
- Unitary Democratic Coalition7.1% of votes0.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 7.5 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.0 by votes and 2.6 by seats; Social Democratic Party led Socialist Party by 2.5 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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