Azores regional election, 2016

Azores regional election, 2016
Azores
On or before October 2016[1]
57 seats to the Legislative Assembly of Azores[2]
29 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
 
Leader Vasco Cordeiro Duarte Freitas
Party PS PSD
Leader since 2012 2013
Leader's seat São Miguel[3] São Miguel[3]
Last election 49.0% 33.0%
Current seats 31 20
Incumbent President

Vasco Cordeiro
PS

The Azores Regional Election (2016) (Portuguese: Eleições Regionais dos Açores, 2016) will be held in October of the same year. In this election the current president of government, led by the Socialist Vasco Cordeiro, will be seeking a second term.

Electoral system

The Azores regional parliament elects 57 members by a proportional system in which the 9 island elect a number of MP's proportional with the number of registered voters. MP's are allocated by using the d'Hondt method. There's also 5 members that are elected in a Compensation district.

Constituency Total
MPs		 Registered
voters
Corvo 2
Faial 4
Flores 3
Graciosa 3
Pico 4
Santa Maria 3
São Jorge 4
São Miguel 19
Terceira 10
Compensation 5
Total 57

Current parties in parliament

The parties that currently are represented in Parliament and their leaders, are:

Party Leader MP's
Socialist Party (PS) Vasco Cordeiro 31
Social Democratic Party (PPD/PSD) Duarte Freitas 20
People's Party (CDS–PP) Artur Lima 3
Unitary Democratic Coalition (PCP–PEV) Aníbal Pires 1
Left Bloc (BE) Lúcia Arruda/Paulo Mendes 1
People's Monarchist Party (PPM) Paulo Estêvâo 1

Opinion Polling

Poll results are listed in the table below in reverse chronological order, showing the most recent first. The highest percentage figure in each polling survey is displayed in bold, and the background shaded in the leading party's colour. In the instance that there is a tie, then no figure is shaded but both are displayed in bold. The lead column on the right shows the percentage-point difference between the two parties with the highest figures. Poll results use the date the survey's fieldwork was done, as opposed to the date of publication.

Opinion polls

Date Polling Firm Sample size PS PSD CDS-PP BE CDU Others Und. Lead
4 Oct 2015 Legislative Election 41.2% 40.4 36.1 3.9 7.8 2.5 9.3 N/A 4.3
15–21 Apr Norma Açores 503 33.2 27.9 1.1 1.3 1.3 6.1 29.1 5.3
2015
25 May 2014 EP Election 19.7% 41.3 29.6 w. PSD 3.9 3.7 21.5 N/A 11.7
29 Sep 2013 Local Elections 54.0% 46.9 41.9 2.6 1.6 1.7 5.3 N/A 5.0
14 Oct 2012 Regional Election 47.9% 49.0 33.0 5.6 1.9 2.3 8.2 N/A 16.0

References

  1. ↑ "Eleições e Referendos" (in Portuguese). Lisbon, Portugal: Portal do Eleitor.
  2. ↑ Alteração à Lei Eleitoral da ALRA dos Açores - CNE (in Portuguese), Lisbon, Portugal: Comissão Nacional dos Eleições
  3. 1 2 Assembleia Legislativa dos Açores - Deputados e Grupos Parlamentares

External links

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Sunday, February 21, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.