Portugal (European Parliament constituency)

Elections in the European Union

Elections to the Parliament of the European Union take place every five years by universal adult suffrage. 736 MEPs are elected to the European Parliament which has been directly elected since 1979. No other body is directly elected although the Council of the European Union and European Council is...

, Portugal is a constituency of the

European Parliament constituency

Members of the European Parliament are elected by the population of the member states of the European Union , divided into constituencies....

European Parliament

The European Parliament is the directly elected parliamentary institution of the European Union . Together with the Council of the European Union and the Commission, it exercises the legislative function of the EU and it has been described as one of the most powerful legislatures in the world...

, currently represented by twenty-two MEPs. It covers the member state of Portugal

Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...

Current MEPs

As of September 2010

Name	National Party	EP group
Paulo Rangel	Partido Social Democrata 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...	EPP
Carlos Coelho Carlos Coelho Carlos Coelho is a Portuguese politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Social Democratic Party–People's Party coalition; part of the European People's Party–European Democrats group.-References:...	Partido Social Democrata	EPP
Maria da Graça Carvalho	Partido Social Democrata	EPP
Mário David Mario David Mario David was an Italian football player and coach.David was born at Udine. He played in a defensive role from 1952 to 1966 in Livorno, Lanerossi Vicenza, A.C. Milan and U.C. Sampdoria. He won a European Cup Championship with Milan in Wembley 1963 final. In Italy national football team, he...	Partido Social Democrata	EPP
Nuno Teixeira de Jesus	Partido Social Democrata	EPP
Maria do Céu Patrão Neves	Partido Social Democrata	EPP
Regina Bastos	Partido Social Democrata	EPP
José Manuel Fernandes	Partido Social Democrata	EPP
Vital Moreira	Partido Socialista 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 ....	S&D Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats The Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats is the social-democratic political group in the European Parliament, formed by MEPs of the Party of European Socialists and allied centre-left parties. The group dates its ancestry via various names back to the beginning of the European...
Edite Estrela Edite Estrela Edite de Fátima Santos Marreiros Estrela , GCIH is a Portuguese politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Socialist Party; part of the Party of European Socialists....	Partido Socialista	S&D
Capoulas Santos	Partido Socialista	S&D
Elisa Ferreira Elisa Ferreira Elisa Ferreira, GCC is a Portuguese politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Socialist Party; part of the Party of European Socialists.-References:...	Partido Socialista	S&D
Correia de Campos	Partido Socialista	S&D
Ana Gomes	Partido Socialista	S&D
Vital Moreira	Partido Socialista	S&D
Miguel Portas Miguel Portas Miguel de Sacadura Cabral Portas is a Portuguese politician and a Member of the European Parliament for the Left Bloc; part of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left group...	Bloco de Esquerda	GUE–NGL European United Left–Nordic Green Left European United Left/Nordic Green Left is a left-wing political group with seats in the European Parliament since 1995.-Position:According to its 1994 constituent declaration, the group is opposed to the present European political structure, but committed to integration...
Marisa Matias	Bloco de Esquerda	GUE–NGL
Rui Tavares Rui Tavares Rui Tavares is a Portuguese politician and Member of the European Parliament. He was elected in 2009 for the Left Bloc. In June 2011, Tavares became an independent within the The Greens–European Free Alliance group....	Bloco de Esquerda	GUE–NGL
Ilda Figueiredo Ilda Figueiredo Maria Ilda da Costa Figueiredo is a Portuguese politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Portuguese Communist Party; part of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left group....	Coligação Democrática Unitária Unitarian Democratic Coalition The Democratic Unity Coalition is an electoral and political coalition between the Portuguese Communist Party and the Ecologist Party "The Greens"...	\|GUE–NGL
João Ferreira	Coligação Democrática Unitária	GUE–NGL
Nuno Melo	Centro Democrático Social - Partido Popular	EPP
Diogo Feio	Centro Democrático Social - Partido Popular	EPP

1987

The first European election in Portugal was a by-election held after it joined the European Communities in 1987. The rest of the EC had voted in 1984.

|-
! colspan=4 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"|Seats
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"
! colspan="2" align="left"|National Party
! align="left"|EU Party
! align="left"|EU Group
|-

|align=left|LDR

European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party

The European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party is a European political party mainly active in the European Union, composed of 56 national-level liberal and liberal-democratic parties from across Europe...

||align=left|LDR

European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party

||2,111,828||37.45||10
|-

|align=left|SOC

Party of European Socialists

The Party of European Socialists is a European political party led by Sergei Stanishev, former Prime Minister of Bulgaria. The PES comprises social-democratic national-level political parties primarily from Member state of the European Union, as well as other nations of the European continent. The...

||align=left|SOC

Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats

The Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats is the social-democratic political group in the European Parliament, formed by MEPs of the Party of European Socialists and allied centre-left parties. The group dates its ancestry via various names back to the beginning of the European...

||1,267,672||22.48||6
|-

|align=left|EPP

European People's Party

The European People's Party is a pro-European centre-right European political party. The EPP was founded in 1976 by Christian democratic parties, but later it increased its membership to include conservative parties and parties of other centre-right perspectives.The EPP is the most influential of...

||align=left|EPP||868,718||15.40||4
|-

|align=left|EGP

European Green Party

The European Green Party is the Green political party at European level. As such it is a federation of green parties in Europe.-History:...

, PEL||align=left|COM||648,700||11.50||3
|-

|align=left|none||align=left|SOC

Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats

||250,158||4.44||1
|-

|colspan="2" align=left|none||155,990||2.77||0
|-

|colspan="2" align=left|none||52,835||0.94||0
|-

|colspan="2" align=left|none||40,812||0.72||0
|-

|colspan="2" align=left|none||29,009||0.51||0
|-

|colspan="2" align=left|none||27,678||0.49||0
|-

|colspan="2" align=left|none||24,060||0.43||0
|-

|colspan="2" align=left|none||19,475||0.35||0
|-
|colspan=4 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total valid
|width="65" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|5,496,935
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|97.45
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|24
|-
|colspan=4|Blank ballots
|68,475||1.21||colspan=3 rowspan=3|
|-
|colspan=4|Invalid ballots
|74,240||1.32
|-
|colspan=4 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total (turnout 72.42%)
|width="65" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|5,639,650
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00
|-
| colspan=11 align=left | Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições
|}

1989

The 1989 European election

European Parliament election, 1989

The 1989 European Parliamentary Election was a European election held across the 12 European Community member states in June 1989. It was third European election but the first time that Spain and Portugal voted at the same time as the other members...

was the third election to the European Parliament and the first time Portugal voted with the rest of the Community.

|-
! colspan=4 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="3" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|Seats
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"
! colspan="2" align="left"|National Party
! align="left"|EU Party
! align="left"|EU Group
! align="center"|1987

European Parliament election, 1987 (Portugal)

The European Parliament election of 1987 in Portugal took place on 19 July 1987. It was the election of all 24 MEPs representing the Portugal constituency for the remainder of the 1984-1989 term of the European Parliament...

! align="center"|1989

European Parliament election, 1989 (Portugal)

The European Parliament election of 1989 in Portugal was the election of MEP representing Portugal constituency for the 1989-1994 term of the European Parliament. It was part of the wider 1989 European election...

! align=right|±
|-

|align=left|LDR

European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party

||align=left|LDR

European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party

||1,358,958||32.75||4.7||10||9||1
|-

|align=left|SOC

Party of European Socialists

||align=left|SOC

Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats

||1,184,380||28.54||6.0||6||8||2
|-

|align=left|EGC

European Green Party

The European Green Party is the Green political party at European level. As such it is a federation of green parties in Europe.-History:...

||align=left|LU

Left Unity

Left Unity was a communist political group with seats in the European Parliament between 1989 and 1994.-History:Left Unity was founded on 25 July 1989 with 14 members. It included MEPs from the Communist parties of France, Greece and Portugal and the Workers' Party of Ireland. These parties were...

, G

The Green Group in the European Parliament

The Green Group in the European Parliament was a Green political group with seats in the European Parliament between 1989 and 1999.-History:In 1989 the Rainbow Group split, with the Greens forming a group called "The Green Group in the European Parliament", and the Regionalists remaining within a...

||597,759||14.41||2.9||3||4||1
|-

|align=left|EPP

European People's Party

||align=left|EPP||587,497||14.16||1.2||4||3||1
|-

|colspan="2" align=left|none||84,272||2.03||0.8||0||0||0
|-

|colspan="2" align=left|none||56,900||1.37||0.9||0||0||0
|-

|colspan="2" align=left|none||45,017||1.09||0.1||0||0||0
|-

|colspan="2" align=left|none||31,775||0.77||0.3||0||0||0
|-

|colspan="2" align=left|none||29,745||0.72||0.0||0||0||0
|-

|colspan="2" align=left|none||26,682||0.64||0.2||0||0||0
|-

|colspan="2" align=left|none||11,182||0.27||—||—||0||—
|-

|colspan="2" align=left|none||7,833||0.19||—||—||0||—
|-
|colspan=4 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total valid
|width="65" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|4,022,000
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|96.92
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|0.6
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|24
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|24
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|0
|-
|colspan=4|Blank ballots
|66,074||1.59||0.4||colspan=3 rowspan=3|
|-
|colspan=4|Invalid ballots
|61,682||1.49||0.2
|-
|colspan=4 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total (turnout 51.10%)
|width="65" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|4,149,756
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|21.3
|-
| colspan=11 align=left|The Socialist Party list includes Democratic Renovator Party candidates.
|-
| colspan=11 align=left | Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições
|}

1994

The 1994 European election

European Parliament election, 1994

The 1994 European Parliamentary Election was a European election held across the 12 European Union member states in June 1994.This election saw the merge of the European People's Party and European Democrats, an increase in the overall number of seats and a fall in overall turnout to...

was the fourth election to the European Parliament and the third European election in Portugal.

|-
! colspan=4 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="3" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|Seats
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"
! colspan="2" align="left"|National Party
! align="left"|EU Party
! align="left"|EU Group
! align="center"|1989

European Parliament election, 1989 (Portugal)

! align="center"|1994

European Parliament election, 1994 (Portugal)

The European Parliament election of 1994 in Portugal was the election of MEP representing Portugal constituency for the 1994-1999 term of the European Parliament. It was part of the wider 1994 European election...

! align=right|±
|-

|align=left|PES

Party of European Socialists

||align=left|PES

Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats

||1,061,560||34.87||6.4||8||10||2
|-

|align=left|EPP

European People's Party

||align=left|EPP||1,046,918||34.39||1.6||9||9||0
|-

|align=left|EDA

European Democratic Alliance

The European Democratic Alliance was a heterogeneous political group in the European Parliament between 1984 and 1995.-History:Following the 1984 elections, the Group of European Progressive Democrats renamed itself on 24 July 1984 to the Group of the European Democratic Alliance...

||align=left|EDA

European Democratic Alliance

||379,044||12.45||1.7||3||3||0
|-

|align=left|EGP

European Green Party

The European Green Party is the Green political party at European level. As such it is a federation of green parties in Europe.-History:...

, PEL||align=left|EUL

European United Left (1994–1995)

The Confederal Group of the European United Left was a Communist political group with seats in the European Parliament between 1994 and 1995.-History:The Confederal Group of the European United Left was formed on 19 July 1994...

||340,725||11.19||3.2||4||3||1
|-

|colspan="2" align=left|none||24,022||0.79||0.2||0||0||0
|-

|colspan="2" align=left|none||18,884||0.62||0.5||0||0||0
|-

|colspan="2" align=left|none||17,780||0.58||0.2||0||0||0
|-

|colspan="2" align=left|none||12,995||0.43||—||—||0||—
|-

|colspan="2" align=left|none||12,402||0.41|||—||—||0||—
|-

|colspan="2" align=left|none||11,214||0.37||—||—||0||—
|-

|colspan="2" align=left|none||8,300||0.27||1.7||0||0||0
|-

|colspan="2" align=left|none||7,127||0.23||—||—||0||—
|-

|colspan="2" align=left|none||5,941||0.20||—||—||0||—
|-

|colspan="2" align=left|none||2,893||0.10||0.2||0||0||0
|-
|colspan=4 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total valid
|width="65" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|2,949,765
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|96.90
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|0.0
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|24
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|25
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|1
|-
|colspan=4|Blank ballots
|48,916||1.61||0.0||colspan=3 rowspan=3|
|-
|colspan=4|Invalid ballots
|45,320||1.49||0.0
|-
|colspan=4 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total (turnout 35.54%)
|width="65" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|3,044,001
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|15.6
|-
| colspan=11 align=left | Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições
|}

1999

The 1999 European election

European Parliament election, 1999

The European Parliament Election, 1999 was a European election for all 626 members of the European Parliament held across the 15 European Union member states on 10, 11 and 13 June 1999. The voter turn-out was generally low, except in Belgium and Luxembourg, where voting is compulsory and where...

was the fifth election to the European Parliament.

|-
! colspan=4 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="3" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|Seats
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"
! colspan="2" align="left"|National Party
! align="left"|EU Party
! align="left"|EU Group
! align="center"|1994

European Parliament election, 1994 (Portugal)

! align="center"|1999

European Parliament election, 1999 (Portugal)

The European Parliament election of 1999 in Portugal was the election of MEP representing Portugal constituency for the 1999-2004 term of the European Parliament. It was part of the wider 1999 European election...

! align=right|±
|-

|align=left|PES

Party of European Socialists

||align=left|PES

Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats

||1,493,146||43.07||8.2||10||12||2
|-

|align=left|EPP

European People's Party

||align=left|EPP-ED||1,078,528||31.11||3.3||9||9||0
|-

|align=left|EGP

European Green Party

The European Green Party is the Green political party at European level. As such it is a federation of green parties in Europe.-History:...

, PEL||align=left|GUE/NGL

European United Left–Nordic Green Left

European United Left/Nordic Green Left is a left-wing political group with seats in the European Parliament since 1995.-Position:According to its 1994 constituent declaration, the group is opposed to the present European political structure, but committed to integration...

||357,671||10.32||0.9||3||2||1
|-

|align=left|UFE

Union for Europe

Group Union for Europe was a conservative political group with seats in the European Parliament between 1995 and 1999.-Members: - Forza Italia, 25 MEPs - Rally for the Republic, 14 MEPs - Fianna Fáil, 7 MEPs - Democratic and Social Centre – People's Party, 3 MEPs - Political Spring, 2...

||align=left|UEN

Union for Europe of the Nations

Union for Europe of the Nations was a political group of the European Parliament between 1999 and 2009.-History:UEN was formed on 20 July 1999, supplanting the earlier Union for Europe. Its member parties Fianna Fáil and National Alliance were the driving forces behind the group, despite their...

||283,067||8.16||4.3||3||2||1
|-

|colspan="2" align=left|none||61,920||1.79||—||—||0||—
|-

|colspan="2" align=left|none||30,446||0.88||0.1||0||0||0
|-

|colspan="2" align=left|none||16,182||0.47||0.2||0||0||0
|-

|colspan="2" align=left|none||13,924||0.40||0.0||0||0||0
|-

|colspan="2" align=left|none||8,413||0.24||—||—||0||—
|-

|colspan="2" align=left|none||5,565||0.16||0.1||0||0||0
|-

|colspan="2" align=left|none||5,089||0.15||0.0||0||0||0
|-
|colspan=4 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total valid
|width="65" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|3,353,951
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|96.74
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|0.2
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|25
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|25
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|0
|-
|colspan=4|Blank ballots
|63,281||1.83||0.2||colspan=3 rowspan=3|
|-
|colspan=4|Invalid ballots
|49,853||1.44||0.1
|-
|colspan=4 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total (turnout 39.93%)
|width="65" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|3,467,085
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|4.4
|-
| colspan=11 align=left | Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições
|}

2004

The 2004 European election

European Parliament election, 2004

Elections to the European Parliament were held from 10 June 2004 to 13 June 2004 in the 25 member states of the European Union, using varying election days according to local custom...

was the sixth election to the European Parliament.

|-
! colspan=4 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="3" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|Seats
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"
! colspan="2" align="left"|National Party
! align="left"|EU Party
! align="left"|EU Group
! align="center"|1999

European Parliament election, 1999 (Portugal)

! align="center"|2004

European Parliament election, 2004 (Portugal)

The European Parliament election of 2004 in Portugal was the election of MEP representing Portugal constituency for the 2004-2009 term of the European Parliament. It was part of the wider 2004 European election...

! align=right|±
|-

|align=left|PES

Party of European Socialists

||align=left|PES

Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats

||1,516,001||44.52||1.5||12||12||0
|-

|align=left|EPP

European People's Party

||align=left|EPP-ED||1,132,769||33.27||6.0||11||9||2
|-

|align=left|EGP

European Green Party

The European Green Party is the Green political party at European level. As such it is a federation of green parties in Europe.-History:...

, PEL||align=left|GUE/NGL

European United Left–Nordic Green Left

||309,401||9.09||1.2||2||2||0
|-

|align=left|EACL

European Anticapitalist Left

The European Anticapitalist Left is an informal network for European anticapitalist left wing parties. EACL met for the first time in Lisbon in March 2000 with the representation of the Scottish Socialist Party, the Portuguese Left Bloc, the Danish Red-Green Alliance, the French LCR, and the...

||align=left|GUE/NGL

European United Left–Nordic Green Left

||167,313||4.91||4.1||0||1||1
|-

|colspan="2" align=left|none||36,294||1.07||0.2||0||0||0
|-

|align=left|EUD

EUDemocrats

The EUDemocrats – Alliance for a Europe of Democracies – is a eurorealist alliance of parties and movements from 15 European countries. It operates as a transnational party at a European level , according to Regulation No 2004/2003...

||align=left|IND/DEM||33,833||0.99||—||—||0||—
|-

|colspan="2" align=left|none||15,454||0.45||0.0||0||0||0
|-

|colspan="2" align=left|none||13,840||0.41||—||—||0||—
|-

|colspan="2" align=left|none||13,671||0.40||0||0||0||0
|-

|colspan="2" align=left|none||13,272||0.39||—||—||0||—
|-

|align=left|FNE

European National Front

European National Front is a coordinating structure of European Third Positionist, anti-communist and nationalist parties. Sometimes members of the ENF also use anti-capitalist rhetoric...

||align=left|none||8,405||0.25||—||—||0||—
|-

|colspan="2" align=left|none||5,588||0.16||0.0||0||0||0
|-

|colspan="2" align=left|none||4,275||0.13||0.0||0||0||0
|-
|colspan=4 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total valid
|width="65" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|3,270,116
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|96.04
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|0.7
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|25
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|24
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|1
|-
|colspan=4|Blank ballots
|87,442||2.57||0.7||colspan=3 rowspan=3|
|-
|colspan=4|Invalid ballots
|47,224||1.39||0.0
|-
|colspan=4 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total (turnout 38.60%)
|width="65" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|3,404,782
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|1.3
|-
| colspan=11 align=left|Força Portugal (FP) is composed 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...

(7 MEPs) and the People's Party (2 MEPs). The 11 seats from 1999
are the sum of the PSD and CDS-PP seats.
|-
| colspan=11 align=left | Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições
|}

2009

The 2009 European election

European Parliament election, 2009

Elections to the European Parliament were held in the 27 member states of the European Union between 4 and 7 June 2009. A total of 736 Members of the European Parliament were elected to represent some 500 million Europeans, making these the biggest trans-national elections in history...

was the seventh election to the European Parliament.

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! colspan=4 style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=left|Parties

Political party

A political party is a political organization that typically seeks to influence government policy, usually by nominating their own candidates and trying to seat them in political office. Parties participate in electoral campaigns, educational outreach or protest actions...

! 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|±pp

Percentage point

Percentage points are the unit for the arithmetic difference of two percentages.Consider the following hypothetical example: in 1980, 40 percent of the population smoked, and in 1990 only 30 percent smoked...

swing

Swing (politics)

An electoral swing analysis shows the extent of change in voter support from one election to another. It is an indicator of voter support for individual candidates or political parties, or voter preference between two or more candidates or parties...

! colspan="3" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|MPs

Member of Parliament

A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...

European Parliament election, 2004 (Portugal)

! align="center"|2009

European Parliament election, 2009 (Portugal)

The European Parliament election of 2009 in Portugal was the election of the delegation from Portugal to the European Parliament in 2009.The lists are headed by*Socialist Party : Vital Moreira...

! align=right|±
|-

|align=left|EPP

European People's Party

||align=left|EPP||1,131,744||31.71||—||7||8||1
|-

|align=left|PES

Party of European Socialists

||align=left|S&D

Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats

||946,818||26.53||18.0||12||7||5
|-

|align=left|EACL

European Anticapitalist Left

||align=left|GUE/NGL

European United Left–Nordic Green Left

||382,667||10.72||5.8||1||3||2
|-

|align=left|EGP

European Green Party

The European Green Party is the Green political party at European level. As such it is a federation of green parties in Europe.-History:...

, PEL||align=left|GUE/NGL

European United Left–Nordic Green Left

||379,787||10.64||1.7||2||2||0
|-

|align=left|EPP

European People's Party

||align=left|EPP||298,423||8.36||—||2||2||0
|-

|colspan="2" align=left|none||55,072||1.54||—||—||0||—
|-

|colspan="2" align=left|none||42,940||1.20||0.2||0||0||0
|-

|align=left|Libertas

Libertas.eu

Libertas is a political party founded by Declan Ganley that took part in the European Parliament election, 2009 in several member states of the European Union.-Preamble:...

||align=left|EFD

Europe of Freedom and Democracy

Europe of Freedom and Democracy is a Eurosceptic political group in the European Parliament. Formed after the European parliamentary election in 2009, it is mostly made up of elements of the now defunct Independence/Democracy and Union for a Europe of Nations groups from the out-going...

||24,062||0.67||0.3||0||0||0
|-

|colspan="2" align=left|none||21,738||0.61||—||—||0||—
|-

|colspan="2" align=left|none||17,139||0.48||0.1||0||0||0
|-

|colspan="2" align=left|none||14,414||0.40||0.1||0||0||0
|-

|align=left|FNE

European National Front

European National Front is a coordinating structure of European Third Positionist, anti-communist and nationalist parties. Sometimes members of the ENF also use anti-capitalist rhetoric...

||align=left|none||13,214||0.37||0.1||0||0||0
|-

|colspan="2" align=left|none||5,177||0.15||0.0||0||0||0
|-
|colspan=4 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total valid
|width="65" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|3,333,195
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|93.39
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|2.7
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|24
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|22
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|2
|-
|colspan=4|Blank ballots
|165,830||4.65||2.1||colspan=3 rowspan=3|
|-
|colspan=4|Invalid ballots
|69,918||1.96||0.6
|-
|colspan=4 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total (turnout 36.78%)
|width="65" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|3,568,943
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|1.8
|-
| colspan=11 align=left|The Social Democratic Party and the People's Party contested, together, the 2004 election in a coalition (Força Portugal

Força Portugal

Força Portugal was a Portuguese right of center political alliance consisting of the Social Democratic Party and the People's Party. The parties contested together in the 2004 European Elections. The alliance won 33% of the votes and 9 seats. Seven of these seats went to the Social Democrats and...

).
|-
| colspan=11 align=left | Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições
|}

External links

European Election News by European Election Law Association (Eurela)
List of MEPs europarl.europa.eu

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