Portugal 2005 legislative election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Socialist Party won 121 of 230 seats with 46.4% of the vote; 64.3% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 2.8 points on 2002.
- Portugal
- Held
Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Socialist Party | 121 | +25 | 46.4 | +7.8 | 2,588,312 |
| Social Democratic Party | 75 | −30 | 29.6 | −11.4 | 1,653,425 |
| Unitary Democratic Coalitionwith Democratic Intervention | 0 | 0 | 7.8 | +0.7 | 433,369 |
| CDS – People's Party | 12 | −2 | 7.5 | −1.4 | 416,415 |
| Left Bloc | 8 | +5 | 6.5 | +3.8 | 364,971 |
| Portuguese Workers' Communist Party | 0 | 0 | 0.9 | +0.2 | 48,186 |
| Portuguese Communist Party | 12 | +2 | |||
| Ecology Party -- Greens | 2 | 0 |
± is the change against the Portugal 2002 legislative election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Socialist Party 2,588,312
- Social Democratic Party 1,653,425
- Unitary Democratic Coalition 433,369
- CDS – People's Party 416,415
- Left Bloc 364,971
- Portuguese Workers' Communist Party 48,186
- 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
64.3% of the 8,944,508 registered voters cast a ballot (5,747,834 ballots), up 2.8 points on 2002. 5,578,782 of them were valid votes. The highest turnout since 1995 in our data. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Socialist Party46.4% of votes52.6% of seats
- Social Democratic Party29.6% of votes32.6% of seats
- CDS – People's Party7.5% of votes5.2% of seats
- Left Bloc6.5% of votes3.5% of seats
- Unitary Democratic Coalition7.8% of votes0.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 8.7 (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 16.8 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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