Portugal 2009 legislative election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Socialist Party won 97 of 230 seats with 37.7% of the vote; 59.7% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 4.6 points on 2005.
- Portugal
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Socialist Party | 97 | −24 | 37.7 | −8.7 | 2,077,238 |
| Social Democratic Party | 81 | +6 | 30.0 | +0.4 | 1,653,665 |
| CDS – People's Party | 21 | +9 | 10.8 | +3.3 | 592,778 |
| Left Bloc | 16 | +8 | 10.1 | +3.6 | 557,306 |
| Unitary Democratic Coalitionwith Democratic Intervention, Portuguese Communist Party and Ecology Party -- Greens | 15 | +15 | 8.1 | +0.3 | 446,279 |
| Portuguese Workers' Communist Party | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | +0.1 | 52,761 |
± is the change against the Portugal 2005 legislative election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Socialist Party 2,077,238
- Social Democratic Party 1,653,665
- CDS – People's Party 592,778
- Left Bloc 557,306
- Unitary Democratic Coalition 446,279
- Portuguese Workers' Communist Party 52,761
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
59.7% of the 9,519,921 registered voters cast a ballot (5,681,258 ballots), down 4.6 points on 2005. 5,505,278 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 Party37.7% of votes42.2% of seats
- Social Democratic Party30.0% of votes35.2% of seats
- CDS – People's Party10.8% of votes9.1% of seats
- Left Bloc10.1% of votes7.0% of seats
- Unitary Democratic Coalition8.1% of votes6.5% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 5.6 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.8 by votes and 3.1 by seats; Socialist Party led Social Democratic Party by 7.7 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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