The European Parliament election of 2004 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 2004-2009 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 2004 European election

European Parliament election, 2004

Elections to the European Parliament were held from 10 June 2004 to 13 June 2004 in the 25 member states of the European Union, using varying election days according to local custom...

. In Portugal the election was held on June 13.

National summary of votes and seats

|-
! 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"|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...

! align="center"|2004

European Parliament election, 2004 (Portugal)

The European Parliament election of 2004 in Portugal was the election of MEP representing Portugal constituency for the 2004-2009 term of the European Parliament. It was part of the wider 2004 European election...

! align=right|±
|-

|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...

||1,516,001||44.52||1.5||12||12||0
|-

|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||1,132,769||33.27||6.0||11||9||2
|-

|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...

||309,401||9.09||1.2||2||2||0
|-

|align=left|EACL

European Anticapitalist Left

The European Anticapitalist Left is an informal network for European anticapitalist left wing parties. EACL met for the first time in Lisbon in March 2000 with the representation of the Scottish Socialist Party, the Portuguese Left Bloc, the Danish Red-Green Alliance, the French LCR, and the...

||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...

||167,313||4.91||4.1||0||1||1
|-

|colspan="2" align=left|none||36,294||1.07||0.2||0||0||0
|-

|align=left|EUD

EUDemocrats

The EUDemocrats – Alliance for a Europe of Democracies – is a eurorealist alliance of parties and movements from 15 European countries. It operates as a transnational party at a European level , according to Regulation No 2004/2003...

||align=left|IND/DEM||33,833||0.99||—||—||0||—
|-

|colspan="2" align=left|none||15,454||0.45||0.0||0||0||0
|-

|colspan="2" align=left|none||13,840||0.41||—||—||0||—
|-

|colspan="2" align=left|none||13,671||0.40||0||0||0||0
|-

|colspan="2" align=left|none||13,272||0.39||—||—||0||—
|-

|align=left|FNE

European National Front

European National Front is a coordinating structure of European Third Positionist, anti-communist and nationalist parties. Sometimes members of the ENF also use anti-capitalist rhetoric...

||align=left|none||8,405||0.25||—||—||0||—
|-

|colspan="2" align=left|none||5,588||0.16||0.0||0||0||0
|-

|colspan="2" align=left|none||4,275||0.13||0.0||0||0||0
|-
|colspan=4 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total valid
|width="65" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|3,270,116
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|96.04
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|0.7
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|25
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|24
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|1
|-
|colspan=4|Blank ballots
|87,442||2.57||0.7||colspan=3 rowspan=3|
|-
|colspan=4|Invalid ballots
|47,224||1.39||0.0
|-
|colspan=4 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total (turnout 38.60%)
|width="65" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|3,404,782
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|1.3
|-
| colspan=11 align=left|Força Portugal (FP) is composed by the Social Democratic Party

Social Democratic Party (Portugal)

The Social Democratic Party , is a centre-right liberal conservative political party in Portugal. It is commonly known by its initials, PSD; on ballot papers, its initials appear as PPD/PSD, with the first three letters coming from the party's original name, Democratic People's Party...

 (7 MEPs) and the People's Party (2 MEPs). The 11 seats from 1999
are the sum of the PSD and CDS-PP seats.
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| colspan=11 align=left | Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições
|}

External links

• Results according to the Portuguese Electoral Commission of the 13 June 2004 election of the 24 delegates from Portugal to the European Parliament

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...