Portuguese legislative election, 1980
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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[edit]
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[edit]
| Parties | Votes | % | ± | Seats | ||||||
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| 1979 | 1980 | ± | % | ± | ||||||
| Democratic Alliance[A] | 2,706,667 | 44.91 | 121 | 126 | 50.40 | |||||
| Social Democratic[B] | 147,644 | 2.45 | 7 | 8 | 3.20 | |||||
| Democratic and Social Centre[B] | 13,765 | 0.23 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |||||
| Total Democratic Alliance | 2,868,076 | 47.59 | 128 | 134 | 53.60 | |||||
| Republican and Socialist Front[C] | 1,606,198 | 26.65 | — | — | 71 | — | 28.40 | — | ||
| Socialist[D] | 67,081 | 1.11 | — | 74 | 3 | — | 1.20 | — | ||
| Total Republican and Socialist Front | 1,673,279 | 27.76 | 741 | 74 | 29.60 | |||||
| United People Alliance[E] | 1,009,505 | 16.75 | 47 | 41 | 16.40 | |||||
| People's Democratic Union | 83,204 | 1.38 | 1 | 1 | 0.40 | |||||
| Workers Party of Socialist Unity | 83,095 | 1.38 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |||||
| Revolutionary Socialist Party | 60,496 | 1.00 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |||||
| Labour Party | 39,408 | 0.65 | — | — | 0 | — | 0.00 | — | ||
| Workers' Communist Party | 35,409 | 0.59 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |||||
| 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 | 0.00 | |||||
| Total valid | 5,888,733 | 97.72 | 250 | 250 | 100.00 | |||||
| Blank ballots | 34,552 | 0.57 | ||||||||
| Invalid ballots | 103,140 | 1.71 | ||||||||
| Total (turnout 83.94%) | 6,026,395 | 100.00 | ||||||||
| 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.[3] |
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| 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.