Portuguese legislative election, 1980
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The Portuguese legislative election of 1980 took place on October 5.
In January 1980, the Democratic Alliance
, which had won the previous election
, on December 2 of 1979, entered office with Francisco Sá Carneiro
leading the government. However, this election was an extraordinaire election, and so, in 1980, another election was held.
The major parties involved and the respective leaders:
The leader of the Democratic Alliance, Francisco Sá Carneiro, member of the Social Democratic Party
was nominated Prime-Minister.
! rowspan="2" colspan=2 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="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|Seats
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"
! align="center"|1979
! align="center"|1980
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|±
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|%
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|±
|-
|2,706,667||44.91||2.4||121||126||5||50.40||2.0
|-
|147,644||2.45||0.1||7||8||1||3.20||0.4
|-
|13,765||0.23||0.2||0||0||0||0.00||0.0
|-
|colspan=2 align=left style="background-color:#00FFFF"|Total Democratic Alliance
|width="65" align="right" style="background-color:#00FFFF"|2,868,076
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#00FFFF"|47.59
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#00FFFF"|2.3
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#00FFFF"|128
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#00FFFF"|134
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#00FFFF"|6
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#00FFFF"|53.60
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#00FFFF"|2.4
|-
|1,606,198||26.65||—||—||71||—||28.40||—
|-
|67,081||1.11||—||74||3||—||1.20||—
|-
|colspan=2 align=left style="background-color:#FF66FF"|Total Republican and Socialist Front
|width="65" align="right" style="background-color:#FF66FF"|1,673,279
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#FF66FF"|27.76
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#FF66FF"|0.41
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#FF66FF"|741
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#FF66FF"|74
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#FF66FF"|01
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#FF66FF"|29.60
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#FF66FF"|0.01
|-
|1,009,505||16.75||2.0||47||41||6||16.40||2.4
|-
|83,204||1.38||0.8||1||1||0||0.40||0.0
|-
|83,095||1.38||1.2||0||0||0||0.00||0.0
|-
|60,496||1.00||0.4||0||0||0||0.00||0.0
|-
|39,408||0.65||—||—||0||—||0.00||—
|-
|35,409||0.59||0.3||0||0||0||0.00||0.0
|-
|
|align=left|PDC / MIRN/PDP / FN
|23,819||0.40||—||—||0||—||0.00||—
|-
|8,529||0.14||—||—||0||—||0.00||—
|-
|3,913||0.06||0.0||0||0||0||0.00||0.0
|-
|colspan=2 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total valid
|width="65" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|5,888,733
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|97.72
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|0.4
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|250
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|250
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|0
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|0
|-
|colspan=2|Blank ballots
|34,552||0.57||0.1||colspan=5 rowspan=3|
|-
|colspan=2|Invalid ballots
|103,140||1.71||0.3
|-
|colspan=2 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total (turnout 83.94%)
|width="65" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|6,026,395
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|1.0
|-
| colspan=10 align=left|Alliance formed by the Social Democratic Party
(74 seats), the Democratic and Social Centre (46 seats) and
the People's Monarchist Party (6 seats).
Social Democratic Party and Democratic and Social Centre electoral list only in Azores and Madeira.
Alliance formed by the Socialist Party
(66 seats), the Leftwing Union for the Socialist Democracy
(4 seats)
and the Independent Social-Democratic Action (4 seats).
Socialist Party electoral list only in Azores and Madeira.
|-
| colspan=10 align=left | Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições
|}
1 Republican and Socialist Front results are compared to the combined totals of the Socialist Party
in the 1979 election.
In January 1980, the Democratic Alliance
Democratic Alliance (Portugal)
The Democratic Alliance was a coalition in Portugal between the Social Democratic Party , the Democratic Social Center and the People's Monarchist Party , including also a group of...
, which had won the previous election
Portuguese legislative election, 1979
The Portuguese legislative election of 1979 took place on December 2. The last election, three and a half years before, in April 1976, was won by the Socialist Party under the lead of Mário Soares, who became the Prime-Minister of the 1st Constitutional government after the revolution...
, on December 2 of 1979, entered office with Francisco Sá Carneiro
Francisco Sá Carneiro
Francisco Manuel Lumbrales de Sá Carneiro, GCTE, GCC, GCL founded the Portuguese Social Democratic Party in 1974 and was elected Prime Minister of Portugal in January 1980, but only held office for eleven months, dying in a plane crash with his partner, Snu Abecassis, on December 4, 1980...
leading the government. However, this election was an extraordinaire election, and so, in 1980, another election was held.
The major parties involved and the respective leaders:
- United People AllianceUnited People AllianceThe United People Alliance , was an electoral and political coalition between the Portuguese Communist Party and the Portuguese Democratic Movement...
(APU), Álvaro CunhalÁlvaro CunhalÁlvaro Barreirinhas Cunhal, who used the name Álvaro Cunhal , was a Portuguese politician. He was one of the major opponents of the dictatorial regime of Estado Novo. He served as secretary-general of the Portuguese Communist Party from 1961 to 1992... - Republican and Socialist FrontRepublican and Socialist FrontRepublican and Socialist Front was an electoral alliance in Portugal, consisting of the Socialist Party , Leftwing Union for the Socialist Democracy and Independent Social Democratic Action . FRS contested the Portuguese legislative election, 1980...
(FRS), Mário SoaresMário SoaresMário Alberto Nobre Lopes Soares, GColTE, GCC, GColL, KE , Portuguese politician, served as Prime Minister of Portugal from 1976 to 1978 and from 1983 to 1985, and subsequently as the 17th President of Portugal from 1986 to 1996.-Family:... - Democratic AllianceDemocratic Alliance (Portugal)The Democratic Alliance was a coalition in Portugal between the Social Democratic Party , the Democratic Social Center and the People's Monarchist Party , including also a group of...
(AD), Francisco Sá CarneiroFrancisco Sá CarneiroFrancisco Manuel Lumbrales de Sá Carneiro, GCTE, GCC, GCL founded the Portuguese Social Democratic Party in 1974 and was elected Prime Minister of Portugal in January 1980, but only held office for eleven months, dying in a plane crash with his partner, Snu Abecassis, on December 4, 1980...
The leader of the Democratic Alliance, Francisco Sá Carneiro, member of 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...
was nominated Prime-Minister.
National summary of votes and seats
|-! rowspan="2" colspan=2 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="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|Seats
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"
! align="center"|1979
Portuguese legislative election, 1979
The Portuguese legislative election of 1979 took place on December 2. The last election, three and a half years before, in April 1976, was won by the Socialist Party under the lead of Mário Soares, who became the Prime-Minister of the 1st Constitutional government after the revolution...
! align="center"|1980
Portuguese legislative election, 1980
The Portuguese legislative election of 1980 took place on October 5.In January 1980, the Democratic Alliance, which had won the previous election, on December 2 of 1979, entered office with Francisco Sá Carneiro leading the government...
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|±
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|%
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|±
|-
|2,706,667||44.91||2.4||121||126||5||50.40||2.0
|-
|147,644||2.45||0.1||7||8||1||3.20||0.4
|-
|13,765||0.23||0.2||0||0||0||0.00||0.0
|-
|colspan=2 align=left style="background-color:#00FFFF"|Total Democratic Alliance
|width="65" align="right" style="background-color:#00FFFF"|2,868,076
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#00FFFF"|47.59
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#00FFFF"|2.3
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#00FFFF"|128
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#00FFFF"|134
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#00FFFF"|6
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#00FFFF"|53.60
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#00FFFF"|2.4
|-
|1,606,198||26.65||—||—||71||—||28.40||—
|-
|67,081||1.11||—||74||3||—||1.20||—
|-
|colspan=2 align=left style="background-color:#FF66FF"|Total Republican and Socialist Front
|width="65" align="right" style="background-color:#FF66FF"|1,673,279
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#FF66FF"|27.76
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#FF66FF"|0.41
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#FF66FF"|741
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#FF66FF"|74
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#FF66FF"|01
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#FF66FF"|29.60
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#FF66FF"|0.01
|-
|1,009,505||16.75||2.0||47||41||6||16.40||2.4
|-
|83,204||1.38||0.8||1||1||0||0.40||0.0
|-
|83,095||1.38||1.2||0||0||0||0.00||0.0
|-
|60,496||1.00||0.4||0||0||0||0.00||0.0
|-
|39,408||0.65||—||—||0||—||0.00||—
|-
|35,409||0.59||0.3||0||0||0||0.00||0.0
|-
|
|align=left|PDC / MIRN/PDP / FN
|23,819||0.40||—||—||0||—||0.00||—
|-
|8,529||0.14||—||—||0||—||0.00||—
|-
|3,913||0.06||0.0||0||0||0||0.00||0.0
|-
|colspan=2 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total valid
|width="65" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|5,888,733
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|97.72
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|0.4
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|250
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|250
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|0
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|0
|-
|colspan=2|Blank ballots
|34,552||0.57||0.1||colspan=5 rowspan=3|
|-
|colspan=2|Invalid ballots
|103,140||1.71||0.3
|-
|colspan=2 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total (turnout 83.94%)
|width="65" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|6,026,395
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|1.0
|-
| colspan=10 align=left|Alliance formed 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...
(74 seats), the Democratic and Social Centre (46 seats) and
the People's Monarchist Party (6 seats).
Social Democratic Party and Democratic and Social Centre electoral list only in Azores and Madeira.
Alliance formed by the Socialist Party
Socialist Party (Portugal)
The Socialist Party , abbreviated to PS, is a social-democratic political party in Portugal. It was founded on 19 April 1973 in the German city of Bad Münstereifel, by militants from Portuguese Socialist Action ....
(66 seats), the Leftwing Union for the Socialist Democracy
Leftwing Union for the Socialist Democracy
The Leftwing Union for the Socialist Democracy was a Portuguese leftwing party founded in January of 1978. The party has its origins in the Socialist Culture Association - Worker Brotherhood, a socialist organization and in groups of independent people linked to the Socialist Party.The party...
(4 seats)
and the Independent Social-Democratic Action (4 seats).
Socialist Party electoral list only in Azores and Madeira.
|-
| colspan=10 align=left | Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições
|}
1 Republican and Socialist Front results are compared to the combined totals of the Socialist Party
Socialist Party (Portugal)
The Socialist Party , abbreviated to PS, is a social-democratic political party in Portugal. It was founded on 19 April 1973 in the German city of Bad Münstereifel, by militants from Portuguese Socialist Action ....
in the 1979 election.
See also
- Politics of PortugalPolitics of PortugalPolitics 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 PortugalElections in PortugalElections 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...