Portuguese local election, 2005

Portuguese local elections, 2005
Portugal
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 Decrease 1.3% Decrease 1.2% Increase 0.3%
Mayors 158 109 32
Mayors +/– Decrease 1 Decrease 4 Increase 4
Councillors 911 853 203
Councillors +/– Increase 5 Increase 3 Increase 4
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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
# ± # ±
PS 1,933,04135.87307853Increase24109Decrease4
PSD 1,523,52628.27245742Decrease32138Decrease4
CDU 589,38410.94301203Increase432Increase4
Social Democratic / People's Party 462,1998.5842131Increase1718Increase3
CDS–PP 165,1923.0718530Decrease91Steady0
BE 158,9532.951117Increase11Steady0
Independents 133,3802.472745Increase147Increase4
PSD / CDS–PP / PPM 91,4551.701220Increase101Steady0
PSD / CDS–PP / PPM / MPT 71,1531.323111
Workers' Communist Party 15,4210.29190Steady00Steady0
Humanist Party 5,0960.09130Steady00Steady0
New Democracy 2,0450.04400
National Renovator Party 1,7590.0350Steady00Steady0
PSD / CDS–PP / MPT 1,6700.03120
Earth Party 1,5820.0340Decrease40Decrease1
PSD / PPM 7070.0110Decrease80Decrease1
PND / PPM 4390.01100
National Solidarity Party 2440.00100
People's Party / Social Democratic 1090.0010Decrease60Steady0
CDS–PP / PSD / PPM 110.00100
Total valid 5,159,104 95.73 2,046 Increase2 308 Steady0
Blank ballots 139,0122.58
Invalid ballots 90,9191.69
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
# ±
PS 1,923,468 35.68 307 2,794 Increase73
PSD 1,454,256 26.98 245 2,416 Decrease52
CDU 628,881 11.67 301 722 Increase13
Social Democratic / People's Party 454,972 8.44 41 407 Decrease20
BE 212,652 3.95 115 114 Increase86
CDS–PP 175,927 3.26 162 190 Decrease63
Independents 115,999 2.15 25 121 Increase28
PSD / CDS–PP / PPM 90,670 1.68 13 73 Increase33
PSD / CDS–PP / PPM / MPT 66,190 1.23 3 27
Workers' Communist Party 8,620 0.16 9 1 Steady0
People's Party / Social Democratic 2,768 0.05 2 6 Decrease13
PSD / CDS–PP / MPT 1,641 0.03 1 6
Earth Party 1,590 0.03 1 0 Decrease18
New Democracy 1,590 0.03 2 1
People's Monarchist Party 1,011 0.02 6 5 Increase5
PND / PPM 831 0.02 1 0
PSD / PPM 760 0.01 1 2 Decrease21
Humanist Party 200 0.00 2 0 Steady0
CDS–PP / PSD / PPM 8 0.00 1 0
Total valid 5,161,181 95.72 6,885 Increase9
Blank ballots 138,4242.57
Invalid ballots 92,1401.71
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
# ± # ±
PS 1,903,166 35.37 3,711 13,460 Increase265 1,518 Decrease5
PSD 1,433,256 26.64 3,065 12,447 Increase299 1,723 Increase74
CDU 648,622 12.05 2,239 2,576 Increase110 244 Increase12
Social Democratic / People's Party 411,633 7.65 529 2,065 Decrease59 219 Increase4
Independents 245,659 4.57 568 2,201 Decrease206 292 Decrease19
BE 146,898 2.73 448 229 Increase183 3 Decrease3
CDS–PP 144,575 2.69 1,043 826 Decrease144 65 Decrease14
PSD / CDS–PP / PPM / MPT 95,175 1.77 45 216 19
PSD / CDS–PP / PPM 84,398 1.57 125 400 Increase98 34 Increase2
Workers' Communist Party 3,635 0.07 28 0 Decrease1 0 Steady0
New Democracy 3,184 0.06 16 7 0
Earth Party 3,100 0.06 7 23 Decrease97 3 Decrease15
PSD / CDS–PP / MPT 1,756 0.03 12 32 3
People's Party / Social Democratic 1,448 0.03 2 10 Decrease57 2 Decrease6
Humanist Party 824 0.02 10 0 Steady0 0 Steady0
PSD / PPM 807 0.02 5 6 Decrease259 0 Decrease18
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 Decrease1 0 Steady0
Total valid 5,130,086 95.31 34,498 4,125
Blank ballots 151,5272.82
Invalid ballots 101,0671.88
Total (turnout 60.94%) 5,382,680 100.00

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