Portuguese legislative election, 1987
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The Portuguese legislative election of 1987 took place on July 19. In the last election, in 1985, the Social Democratic Party had achieved a relative majority, thing that made its government very weak, managing to survive in coalition with the Democratic Social Center and the Democratic Renovator Party, and after the approval of a no confidence resolution from the left-wing parties, with the aid of the Democratic Renovator Party, the government fell and Mário Soares
, the President at the time, called for a new election.
The election was won by the Social Democratic Party, that with a growing popularity, won with a large majority, the biggest ever in the Portuguese parliamentary history. The left-wing Unitarian Democratic Coalition lost some of its MPs to the Socialist Party and the Democratic Renovator Party lost almost all of its influence, mainly due to its responsibility in the fall of the former government. The right-wing Democratic Social Center lost almost a half of the voting, due to the useful voting effect on the also right-wing, Social Democratic Party.
The major parties involved and the respective leaders:
Cavaco Silva, leader of the Social Democratic Party, was nominated Prime Minister.
! rowspan="2" colspan=2 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="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|Seats
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"
! align="center"|1985
! align="center"|1987
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|±
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|%
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|±
|-
|2,850,784||50.22||20.3||88||148||60||59.20||24.0
|-
|1,262,506||22.24||1.4||57||60||3||24.00||1.2
|-
|689,137||12.14||3.4||38||31||7||12.40||2.8
|-
|278,561||4.91||13.0||45||7||38||2.80||15.2
|-
|251,987||4.44||5.6||22||4||18||1.60||7.2
|-
|50,717||0.89||0.4||0||0||0||0.00||0.0
|-
|32,977||0.58||0.0||0||0||0||0.00||0.0
|-
|32,607||0.57||—||—||0||—||0.00||—
|-
|31,667||0.56||0.1||0||0||0||0.00||0.0
|-
|23,218||0.41||—||—||0||—||0.00||—
|-
|20,800||0.37||0.1||0||0||0||0.00||0.0
|-
|18,544||0.33||0.1||0||0||0||0.00||0.0
|-
|9,185||0.16||0.6||0||0||0||0.00||0.0
|-
|colspan=2 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total valid
|width="65" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|5,552,690
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|97.82
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|0.3
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|250
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|250
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|0
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|0.0
|-
|colspan=2|Blank ballots
|50,135||0.88||0.1||colspan=5 rowspan=3|
|-
|colspan=2|Invalid ballots
|73,533||1.30||0.4
|-
|colspan=2 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total (turnout 71.57%)
|width="65" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|5,676,358
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|2.6
|-
| colspan=10 align=left|In 1985, as United People Alliance
.
|-
| colspan=10 align=left | Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições
|}
Mário Soares
Mário Alberto Nobre Lopes Soares, GColTE, GCC, GColL, KE , Portuguese politician, served as Prime Minister of Portugal from 1976 to 1978 and from 1983 to 1985, and subsequently as the 17th President of Portugal from 1986 to 1996.-Family:...
, the President at the time, called for a new election.
The election was won by the Social Democratic Party, that with a growing popularity, won with a large majority, the biggest ever in the Portuguese parliamentary history. The left-wing Unitarian Democratic Coalition lost some of its MPs to the Socialist Party and the Democratic Renovator Party lost almost all of its influence, mainly due to its responsibility in the fall of the former government. The right-wing Democratic Social Center lost almost a half of the voting, due to the useful voting effect on the also right-wing, Social Democratic Party.
The major parties involved and the respective leaders:
- Unitarian Democratic CoalitionUnitarian Democratic CoalitionThe Democratic Unity Coalition is an electoral and political coalition between the Portuguese Communist Party and the Ecologist Party "The Greens"...
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(PS), Vítor ConstâncioVitor ConstâncioVítor Manuel Ribeiro Constâncio, GCC, GCIH is a Portuguese economist and politician, Vice-President of the European Central Bank. Constâncio graduated in economics from the Universidade Técnica de Lisboa.... - Democratic Renovator PartyDemocratic Renovator PartyThe Democratic Renewal Party was a Portuguese political party, founded in 1985 with the political support of the until-then-independent President of the Republic, Ramalho Eanes. At the time of its foundation, it was meant to "moralize Portuguese political life" and the party positioned itself in...
(PRD), Ramalho Eanes - Social Democratic PartySocial 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...
(PSD), Cavaco SilvaAníbal Cavaco SilvaAníbal António Cavaco Silva, GCC , is the President of Portugal. He won the Portuguese presidential election on 22 January 2006 and was re-elected on 23 January 2011, for a second five-year term. Cavaco Silva was sworn in on 9 March 2006.... - Democratic Social Center (CDS), Lucas Pires
Cavaco Silva, leader of the Social Democratic Party, was nominated Prime Minister.
National summary of votes and seats
|-! rowspan="2" colspan=2 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="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|Seats
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"
! align="center"|1985
Portuguese legislative election, 1985
The Portuguese legislative election of 1985 took place on October 6. In June of the same year, the former Prime-Minister, Mário Soares, had resigned from the job due to the lack of parliamentary support, the government was composed by a coalition of the two major parties, the center-right Social...
! align="center"|1987
Portuguese legislative election, 1987
The Portuguese legislative election of 1987 took place on July 19. In the last election, in 1985, the Social Democratic Party had achieved a relative majority, thing that made its government very weak, managing to survive in coalition with the Democratic Social Center and the Democratic Renovator...
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|±
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|%
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|±
|-
|2,850,784||50.22||20.3||88||148||60||59.20||24.0
|-
|1,262,506||22.24||1.4||57||60||3||24.00||1.2
|-
|689,137||12.14||3.4||38||31||7||12.40||2.8
|-
|278,561||4.91||13.0||45||7||38||2.80||15.2
|-
|251,987||4.44||5.6||22||4||18||1.60||7.2
|-
|50,717||0.89||0.4||0||0||0||0.00||0.0
|-
|32,977||0.58||0.0||0||0||0||0.00||0.0
|-
|32,607||0.57||—||—||0||—||0.00||—
|-
|31,667||0.56||0.1||0||0||0||0.00||0.0
|-
|23,218||0.41||—||—||0||—||0.00||—
|-
|20,800||0.37||0.1||0||0||0||0.00||0.0
|-
|18,544||0.33||0.1||0||0||0||0.00||0.0
|-
|9,185||0.16||0.6||0||0||0||0.00||0.0
|-
|colspan=2 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total valid
|width="65" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|5,552,690
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|97.82
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|0.3
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|250
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|250
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|0
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|0.0
|-
|colspan=2|Blank ballots
|50,135||0.88||0.1||colspan=5 rowspan=3|
|-
|colspan=2|Invalid ballots
|73,533||1.30||0.4
|-
|colspan=2 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total (turnout 71.57%)
|width="65" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|5,676,358
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00
|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|2.6
|-
| colspan=10 align=left|In 1985, as United People Alliance
United People Alliance
The United People Alliance , was an electoral and political coalition between the Portuguese Communist Party and the Portuguese Democratic Movement...
.
|-
| colspan=10 align=left | Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições
|}
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See also
- Politics of PortugalPolitics of PortugalPolitics in Portugal take place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the Prime Minister is the head of government, and of a multi-party system. The President of the Republic is the head of state and has several significant political powers, which he...
- List of political parties in Portugal
- Elections in PortugalElections in PortugalElections in Portugal gives information on election and election results in Portugal.Only the elections since the Carnation Revolution of 1974 are listed here. During the period encompassing the Constitutional Monarchy and the First Republic there were also elections, but only for a limited...