The United People Alliance (Portuguese

Portuguese language

Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...

: Aliança Povo Unido or APU), was an electoral and political coalition between the Portuguese Communist Party

Portuguese Communist Party

The Portuguese Communist Party is a major left-wing political party in Portugal. It is a Marxist-Leninist party, and its organization is based upon democratic centralism. The party also considers itself to be patriotic and internationalist....

 (PCP) and the Portuguese Democratic Movement

Portuguese Democratic Movement

The Portuguese Democratic Movement / Democratic Electoral Commissions was one of the most important organizations of the democratic opposition to the Portuguese fascist regime...

 (MDP-CDE). After 1983, the Ecologist Party also joined.

The coalition was formed for the first time in 1978 in order to run to the Portuguese parliamentary election

Portuguese legislative election, 1979

The Portuguese legislative election of 1979 took place on December 2. The last election, three and a half years before, in April 1976, was won by the Socialist Party under the lead of Mário Soares, who became the Prime-Minister of the 1st Constitutional government after the revolution...

 and split up after the breakaway and implosion of the MDP-CDE in 1987. After that, the PCP started to ran in coalition with the Ecologist Party "The Greens" in the Unitarian Democratic Coalition

Unitarian Democratic Coalition

The Democratic Unity Coalition is an electoral and political coalition between the Portuguese Communist Party and the Ecologist Party "The Greens"...

.

Electoral scores achieved by APU

Electoral Results of APU (year links to election page)
Year	Type of Election	Voting	% of Voting	Mandates
1979 Portuguese legislative election, 1979 The Portuguese legislative election of 1979 took place on December 2. The last election, three and a half years before, in April 1976, was won by the Socialist Party under the lead of Mário Soares, who became the Prime-Minister of the 1st Constitutional government after the revolution...	Portuguese Parliament	1,121,374	19.0%	47
1979 Portuguese local election, 1979 The Portuguese local election of 1979 took place on December 16. This was the second local election in Portugal since the democratic revolution of 1974 introduced the concept of democratic local power....	Local	1,021,486	20.5%	322
1980 Portuguese legislative election, 1980 The Portuguese legislative election of 1980 took place on October 5.In January 1980, the Democratic Alliance, which had won the previous election, on December 2 of 1979, entered office with Francisco Sá Carneiro leading the government...	Portuguese Parliament	1,000,975	17.0%	41
1982 Portuguese local election, 1982 The Portuguese local election of 1982 took place on December 12. This was the third local election in Portugal since the democratic revolution of 1974 introduced the concept of democratic local power....	Local	1,061,492	20.7%	325
1983 Portuguese legislative election, 1983 The Portuguese legislative election of 1983 took place on April 25. The last election, in October 1980 had been won by a right-wing coalition, the Democratic Alliance and Francisco Sá Carneiro had retained office as Prime Minister with an increased majority...	Portuguese Parliament	1,024,475	18.2%	44
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...	Portuguese Parliament	893,216	15.6%	38
1985 Portuguese local election, 1985 The Portuguese local election of 1985 took place on December 15. This was the fourth local election in Portugal since the democratic revolution of 1974 introduced the concept of democratic local power....	Local	942,147	19.4%	305