Portuguese legislative election, 1980

Portuguese legislative election, 1980

5 October 1980
250 seats to the Portuguese Assembly 125 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party   Leader Francisco Sá Carneiro Mário Soares Party AD FRS Leader since 29 April 1979 19 April 1973 Leader's seat Lisbon Lisbon Last election 128 seats, 45.3% 74 seats, 27.3%1 Seats won 134 74 Seat change 6 0 Popular vote 2,868,076 1,673,279 Percentage 47.6% 27.8% Swing 2.3% 0.5%
250px The first and the second most voted parties in each district (Azores and Madeira are not shown)
Prime Minister before election Sá Carneiro PSD Elected Prime Minister Sá Carneiro PSD

Portugal

This article is part of the series: Politics and government of Portugal

The Portuguese legislative election of 1980 took place on 5 October. In January 1980, the Democratic Alliance, which had won the previous election, on 2 December 1979, entered office with Francisco Sá Carneiro leading the government. However, this election was an extraordinary election, and so, in 1980, another election was held.

Parties

The major parties involved and the respective leaders:

• United People Alliance (APU), Álvaro Cunhal
• Republican and Socialist Front (FRS), Mário Soares
• Democratic Alliance (AD), Francisco Sá Carneiro

The leader of the Democratic Alliance, Francisco Sá Carneiro, member of the Social Democratic Party was nominated Prime-Minister.

National summary of votes and seats

 Summary of the 5 October 1980 Assembly of the Republic elections results

Parties			Votes	%	±	Seats
						1979	1980	±	%	±
		Democratic Alliance	2,706,667	44.91	2.4	121	126	5	50.40	2.0
		Social Democratic	147,644	2.45	0.1	7	8	1	3.20	0.4
		Democratic and Social Centre	13,765	0.23	0.2	0	0	0	0.00	0.0
	Total Democratic Alliance		2,868,076	47.59	2.3	128	134	6	53.60	2.4
		Republican and Socialist Front	1,606,198	26.65	—	—	71	—	28.40	—
		Socialist	67,081	1.11	—	74	3	—	1.20	—
	Total Republican and Socialist Front		1,673,279	27.76	0.41	741	74	01	29.60	0.01
		United People Alliance	1,009,505	16.75	2.0	47	41	6	16.40	2.4
		People's Democratic Union	83,204	1.38	0.8	1	1	0	0.40	0.0
		Workers Party of Socialist Unity	83,095	1.38	1.2	0	0	0	0.00	0.0
		Revolutionary Socialist Party	60,496	1.00	0.4	0	0	0	0.00	0.0
		Labour Party	39,408	0.65	—	—	0	—	0.00	—
		Workers' Communist Party	35,409	0.59	0.3	0	0	0	0.00	0.0
		PDC / MIRN/PDP / FN	23,819	0.40	—	—	0	—	0.00	—
		Democratic Party of the Atlantic	8,529	0.14	—	—	0	—	0.00	—
		OCMLP	3,913	0.06	0.0	0	0	0	0.00	0.0
Total valid			5,888,733	97.72	0.4	250	250	0	100.00	0
Blank ballots			34,552	0.57	0.1
Invalid ballots			103,140	1.71	0.3
Total (turnout 83.94%)			6,026,395	100.00	1.0
A Alliance formed by the Social Democratic Party (74 seats), the Democratic and Social Centre (46 seats) and the People's Monarchist Party (6 seats). B Social Democratic Party and Democratic and Social Centre electoral list only in Azores and Madeira. C Alliance formed by the Socialist Party (63 seats), the Leftwing Union for the Socialist Democracy (4 seats) and the Independent Social-Democratic Action (4 seats). D Socialist Party electoral list only in Azores and Madeira. E Portuguese Communist Party (39 MPs) and Portuguese Democratic Movement (2 MPs) ran in coalition.
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.

Vote share
AD			47.59%
FRS			27.76%
APU			16.75%
UDP			1.38%
POUS			1.38%
PSR			1.00%
Others/Invalides			4.12%

External links

• Comissão Nacional de Eleições
• Centro de Estudos do Pensamento Político

See also

• Politics of Portugal
• List of political parties in Portugal
• Elections in Portugal