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Portugal 2004 European Parliament election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Socialist Party won 12 of 24 seats with 46.4% of the vote; 38.6% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 1.3 points on 1999.

European Parliament result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
Socialist Party12046.4+1.81,516,001
Social Democratic Party9034.6+2.51,132,769
Unitary Democratic Coalitionwith Ecology Party -- Greens, Portuguese Communist Party and Democratic Intervention2+29.5−1.2309,401
Left Bloc1+15.1+3.3167,313
Portuguese Workers' Communist Party01.136,294

± is the change against the Portugal 1999 European Parliament election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • Socialist Party 1,516,001
  • Social Democratic Party 1,132,769
  • Unitary Democratic Coalition 309,401
  • Left Bloc 167,313
  • Portuguese Workers' Communist Party 36,294

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

38.6% of the 8,821,456 registered voters cast a ballot (3,404,782 ballots), down 1.3 points on 1999. 3,270,116 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Socialist Party46.4% of votes50.0% of seats
  • Social Democratic Party34.6% of votes37.5% of seats
  • Unitary Democratic Coalition9.5% of votes8.3% of seats
  • Left Bloc5.1% of votes4.2% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 3.5 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.9 by votes and 2.5 by seats; Socialist Party led Social Democratic Party by 11.7 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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