Portuguese presidential election, 1965

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Portuguese presidential election, 1965
Portugal
1958 ←
N/A (cancelled in 1965) → 1972

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Candidate Americo Thomaz
Party National Union
Popular vote 120
Percentage 100%

President before election

Americo Thomaz
National Union

Elected President

Americo Thomaz
National Union

Presidential elections were held in Portugal in 1965, during the authoritarian Estado Novo regime of Prime Minister António de Oliveira Salazar, following parliamentary elections in the same year. Despite the authoritarian nature of the regime, it was the first presidential election to be held by the National Assembly of Portugal rather than by direct popular ballot and, subsequently, rear admiral Thomaz was universally endorsed for a second seven-year term. His only opponent in the preceding 1958 election, general Humberto Delgado, had been assassinated in early 1965 following an attempt to return to Portugal from exile, possibly to contest Thomaz' election for a second time.