European Parliament election, 1999 (Portugal)
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The European Parliament election of 1999 in Portugal was the election of MEP representing Portugal constituency
Portugal (European Parliament constituency)
In European elections, Portugal is a constituency of the European Parliament, currently represented by twenty-two MEPs. It covers the member state of Portugal.-Current MEPs:As of September 2010-1987:...

 for the 1999-2004 term of the European Parliament
European Parliament
The European Parliament is the directly elected parliamentary institution of the European Union . Together with the Council of the European Union and the Commission, it exercises the legislative function of the EU and it has been described as one of the most powerful legislatures in the world...

. It was part of the wider 1999 European election
European Parliament election, 1999
The European Parliament Election, 1999 was a European election for all 626 members of the European Parliament held across the 15 European Union member states on 10, 11 and 13 June 1999. The voter turn-out was generally low, except in Belgium and Luxembourg, where voting is compulsory and where...

. In Portugal the election was held on June 13.

National summary of votes and seats


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! colspan=4 style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=left|Parties
! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|Votes
! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|%
! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|±
! colspan="3" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|Seats
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"
! colspan="2" align="left"|National Party
! align="left"|EU Party
! align="left"|EU Group
! align="center"|1994
European Parliament election, 1994 (Portugal)
The European Parliament election of 1994 in Portugal was the election of MEP representing Portugal constituency for the 1994-1999 term of the European Parliament. It was part of the wider 1994 European election...


! align="center"|1999
European Parliament election, 1999 (Portugal)
The European Parliament election of 1999 in Portugal was the election of MEP representing Portugal constituency for the 1999-2004 term of the European Parliament. It was part of the wider 1999 European election...


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|align=left|PES
Party of European Socialists
The Party of European Socialists is a European political party led by Sergei Stanishev, former Prime Minister of Bulgaria. The PES comprises social-democratic national-level political parties primarily from Member state of the European Union, as well as other nations of the European continent. The...

||align=left|PES
Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats
The Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats is the social-democratic political group in the European Parliament, formed by MEPs of the Party of European Socialists and allied centre-left parties. The group dates its ancestry via various names back to the beginning of the European...

||1,493,146||43.07||8.2||10||12||2
|-

|align=left|EPP
European People's Party
The European People's Party is a pro-European centre-right European political party. The EPP was founded in 1976 by Christian democratic parties, but later it increased its membership to include conservative parties and parties of other centre-right perspectives.The EPP is the most influential of...

||align=left|EPP-ED||1,078,528||31.11||3.3||9||9||0
|-

|align=left|EGP
European Green Party
The European Green Party is the Green political party at European level. As such it is a federation of green parties in Europe.-History:...

, PEL||align=left|GUE/NGL
European United Left–Nordic Green Left
European United Left/Nordic Green Left is a left-wing political group with seats in the European Parliament since 1995.-Position:According to its 1994 constituent declaration, the group is opposed to the present European political structure, but committed to integration...

||357,671||10.32||0.9||3||2||1
|-

|align=left|UFE
Union for Europe
Group Union for Europe was a conservative political group with seats in the European Parliament between 1995 and 1999.-Members: - Forza Italia, 25 MEPs - Rally for the Republic, 14 MEPs - Fianna Fáil, 7 MEPs - Democratic and Social Centre – People's Party, 3 MEPs - Political Spring, 2...

||align=left|UEN
Union for Europe of the Nations
Union for Europe of the Nations was a political group of the European Parliament between 1999 and 2009.-History:UEN was formed on 20 July 1999, supplanting the earlier Union for Europe. Its member parties Fianna Fáil and National Alliance were the driving forces behind the group, despite their...

||283,067||8.16||4.3||3||2||1
|-

|colspan="2" align=left|none||61,920||1.79||—||—||0||—
|-

|colspan="2" align=left|none||30,446||0.88||0.1||0||0||0
|-

|colspan="2" align=left|none||16,182||0.47||0.2||0||0||0
|-

|colspan="2" align=left|none||13,924||0.40||0.0||0||0||0
|-

|colspan="2" align=left|none||8,413||0.24||—||—||0||—
|-

|colspan="2" align=left|none||5,565||0.16||0.1||0||0||0
|-

|colspan="2" align=left|none||5,089||0.15||0.0||0||0||0
|-
|colspan=4 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total valid
|width="65" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|3,353,951
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|96.74
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|0.2
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|25
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|25
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|0
|-
|colspan=4|Blank ballots
|63,281||1.83||0.2||colspan=3 rowspan=3|
|-
|colspan=4|Invalid ballots
|49,853||1.44||0.1
|-
|colspan=4 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total (turnout 39.93%)
|width="65" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|3,467,085
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|4.4
|-
| colspan=11 align=left | Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições
|}

See also

  • Politics of Portugal
    Politics of Portugal
    Politics in Portugal take place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the Prime Minister is the head of government, and of a multi-party system. The President of the Republic is the head of state and has several significant political powers, which he...

  • List of political parties in Portugal
  • Elections in Portugal
    Elections in Portugal
    Elections in Portugal gives information on election and election results in Portugal.Only the elections since the Carnation Revolution of 1974 are listed here. During the period encompassing the Constitutional Monarchy and the First Republic there were also elections, but only for a limited...

  • European Parliament
    European Parliament
    The European Parliament is the directly elected parliamentary institution of the European Union . Together with the Council of the European Union and the Commission, it exercises the legislative function of the EU and it has been described as one of the most powerful legislatures in the world...

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