Portuguese local election, 2005

Portuguese local elections, 2005

9 October 2005

All 308 Portuguese municipalities and 4,260 Portuguese Parishes All 2,046 local government councils

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Luís Marques Mendes	José Sócrates	Jerónimo de Sousa
Party	PSD	PS	CDU
Last election	159 mayors, 41.2%	113 mayors, 37.1%	28 mayors, 10.6%
Popular vote	2,150,710	1,933,041	589,384
Percentage	39.9%	35.9%	10.9%
Swing	1.3%	1.2%	0.3%
Mayors	158	109	32
Mayors +/–	1	4	4
Councillors	911	853	203
Councillors +/–	5	3	4

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

The Portuguese local election of 2005 took place on 9 October. The election consisted of three separate elections in the 308 Portuguese municipalities, the election for the Municipal Chambers, whose winner is elected mayor, another election for the Municipal Assembly and a last one for the lower-level Parish Assembly, whose winner is elected parish president. This last was held separately in the more than 4,000 parishes around the country.

The Socialist Party may be considered the major defeated party of this election due to a slight loss of mandates. The Socialists did, however, achieve a better percentage of the vote in relation to the election of 2001.

On the right, the Social Democratic Party stole some municipalities from the Socialists, some of them in coalition with the People's Party that was reduced to only one municipality in stand-alone candidacies, Ponte de Lima, continuing its decline in comparison, for example, with the 36 mayors achieved in 1976.

On the left, the Unitarian Democratic Coalition, led by the Communist Party, regained some of its former influence, taking 4 municipalities and several parishes from the Socialists in the districts of Beja, Évora and Setúbal and Leiria achieving a total of 32 mayors, and winning, for the first time, the election in Peniche. The Leftwing Bloc kept the presidency of its single municipality, Salvaterra de Magos.

The election was also remarkable for the several victories of independent candidates, most of them former Socialist, Social Democratic and People's Party candidates who were expelled or given no confidence by their respective parties and, even so, became mayors. The best known were Valentim Loureiro in Gondomar, Fátima Felgueiras in Felgueiras and Isaltino Morais in Oeiras.

Parties

The main political forces involved in the election were:

National summary of votes and seats

Municipal Councils

The first and the second most voted parties in each district (Azores and Madeira are not shown)

Most voted parties or coalitions in each Municipality. Municipality won by
■ - PSD ■ - PS ■ - CDU ■ - BE ■ - CDS–PP ■ - PSD-CDS–PP ■ – PSD-CDS–PP-PPM ■ - PSD-CDS–PP-PPM-MPT
■ - Independents

Summary of the 9 October 2005 Municipal Councils elections results
Parties		Votes	%	Candidacies	Councillors		Mayors
Parties		Votes	%	Candidacies	#	±	#	±
	PS	1,933,041	35.87	307	853	24	109	4
	PSD	1,523,526	28.27	245	742	32	138	4
	CDU	589,384	10.94	301	203	4	32	4
	Social Democratic / People's Party	462,199	8.58	42	131	17	18	3
	CDS–PP	165,192	3.07	185	30	9	1	0
	BE	158,953	2.95	111	7	1	1	0
	Independents	133,380	2.47	27	45	14	7	4
	PSD / CDS–PP / PPM	91,455	1.70	12	20	10	1	0
	PSD / CDS–PP / PPM / MPT	71,153	1.32	3	11	—	1	—
	Workers' Communist Party	15,421	0.29	19	0	0	0	0
	Humanist Party	5,096	0.09	13	0	0	0	0
	New Democracy	2,045	0.04	4	0	—	0	—
	National Renovator Party	1,759	0.03	5	0	0	0	0
	PSD / CDS–PP / MPT	1,670	0.03	1	2	—	0	—
	Earth Party	1,582	0.03	4	0	4	0	1
	PSD / PPM	707	0.01	1	0	8	0	1
	PND / PPM	439	0.01	1	0	—	0	—
	National Solidarity Party	244	0.00	1	0	—	0	—
	People's Party / Social Democratic	109	0.00	1	0	6	0	0
	CDS–PP / PSD / PPM	11	0.00	1	0	—	0	—
Total valid		5,159,104	95.73	—	2,046	2	308	0
Blank ballots		139,012	2.58
Invalid ballots		90,919	1.69
Total (turnout 60.94%)		5,389,035	100.00

Municipal Assemblies

The first and the second most voted parties in each district (Azores and Madeira are not shown)

Summary of the 9 October 2005 Municipal Assemblies elections results
Parties		Votes	%	Candidacies	Mandates
Parties		Votes	%	Candidacies	#	±
	PS	1,923,468	35.68	307	2,794	73
	PSD	1,454,256	26.98	245	2,416	52
	CDU	628,881	11.67	301	722	13
	Social Democratic / People's Party	454,972	8.44	41	407	20
	BE	212,652	3.95	115	114	86
	CDS–PP	175,927	3.26	162	190	63
	Independents	115,999	2.15	25	121	28
	PSD / CDS–PP / PPM	90,670	1.68	13	73	33
	PSD / CDS–PP / PPM / MPT	66,190	1.23	3	27	—
	Workers' Communist Party	8,620	0.16	9	1	0
	People's Party / Social Democratic	2,768	0.05	2	6	13
	PSD / CDS–PP / MPT	1,641	0.03	1	6	—
	Earth Party	1,590	0.03	1	0	18
	New Democracy	1,590	0.03	2	1	—
	People's Monarchist Party	1,011	0.02	6	5	5
	PND / PPM	831	0.02	1	0	—
	PSD / PPM	760	0.01	1	2	21
	Humanist Party	200	0.00	2	0	0
	CDS–PP / PSD / PPM	8	0.00	1	0	—
Total valid		5,161,181	95.72	—	6,885	9
Blank ballots		138,424	2.57
Invalid ballots		92,140	1.71
Total (turnout 60.94%)		5,391,745	100.00

Parish Assemblies

The first and the second most voted parties in each district (Azores and Madeira are not shown)

Summary of the 9 October 2005 Parish Assemblies elections results
Parties		Votes	%	Candidacies	Mandates		Presidents
Parties		Votes	%	Candidacies	#	±	#	±
	PS	1,903,166	35.37	3,711	13,460	265	1,518	5
	PSD	1,433,256	26.64	3,065	12,447	299	1,723	74
	CDU	648,622	12.05	2,239	2,576	110	244	12
	Social Democratic / People's Party	411,633	7.65	529	2,065	59	219	4
	Independents	245,659	4.57	568	2,201	206	292	19
	BE	146,898	2.73	448	229	183	3	3
	CDS–PP	144,575	2.69	1,043	826	144	65	14
	PSD / CDS–PP / PPM / MPT	95,175	1.77	45	216	—	19	—
	PSD / CDS–PP / PPM	84,398	1.57	125	400	98	34	2
	Workers' Communist Party	3,635	0.07	28	0	1	0	0
	New Democracy	3,184	0.06	16	7	—	0	—
	Earth Party	3,100	0.06	7	23	97	3	15
	PSD / CDS–PP / MPT	1,756	0.03	12	32	—	3	—
	People's Party / Social Democratic	1,448	0.03	2	10	57	2	6
	Humanist Party	824	0.02	10	0	0	0	0
	PSD / PPM	807	0.02	5	6	259	0	18
	National Solidarity Party	72	0.00	5	0	—	0	—
	National Renovator Party	38	0.00	1	0	—	0	—
	People's Monarchist Party	27	0.00	1	0	1	0	0
Total valid		5,130,086	95.31	—	34,498	—	4,125	—
Blank ballots		151,527	2.82
Invalid ballots		101,067	1.88
Total (turnout 60.94%)		5,382,680	100.00

End notes

The source of the voting data is the Portuguese Electoral Commission

Further Notes:

Democratic Unity Coalition (CDU) is composed by the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP), the "The Greens" (PEV) and the Democratic Intervention (ID).
The different coalitions between the Social Democratic Party (PSD), the People's Party (CDS–PP), the People's Monarchist Party (PPM) or the Earth Party (MPT) appear because each municipality has its own election.
The number of candidacies expresses the number of municipalities or parishes in which the party or coalition presented lists.
The number of mandates expresses the number of municipal deputies in the Municipal Assembly election and the number of parish deputies in the Parish Assembly election.
The turnout varies because one may choose not to vote for all the organs.

References

"CNE Resultados". Comissão Nacional de Eleições. Retrieved 17 January 2006.

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