Portugal Local Elections 29 September

[Devonian]

The government over there is very unpopular so will be interested to see how that is reflected in the results.

[Devonian]

Details of results should be here

autarquicas2013.mj.pt/index.html

And for those who are interested here are details of all Portuguese elections since 2001

www.eleicoes.mj.pt/

[Devonian]

Turnout at 12.00 was 19.44%. This is down on the local elections in 2009 where turnout was 21.23% at this time of day.

[Devonian]

Turnout at 16.00 was 43.43%. That's two percent down on 2009 when it was 45.3%

[Devonian]

"We had the goal of retaining the majority of town halls but that didn't happen," Passos Coelho said, congratulating the opposition Socialists for their "significant victory".

"As Prime Minister I will continue along the path we are on, which is essential in order to overcome the economic crisis and restore confidence and growth for Portugal," said Passos Coelho.

"The SDP has suffered its worst results in municipal elections," he said, calling the defeat the "price to pay" for the government's austerity policies.

According to partial results covering nearly 90 per cent of the constituencies, the Socialists won 36.7 per cent of the vote with the Social Democrats garnering just 18.9 per cent.

At the previous municipal elections in 2009, the SDP, together with allied right-leaning parties, won a majority of the municipalities, securing 139 against 132 for the Socialists, who nonetheless won more individual votes.

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/portugal/10343350/Voters-reject-Portugal-governments-austerity-policies-in-local-elections.html

[marksenior]

I am not sure that report is strictly correct . The Socialists did make gains although their vote was slightly down in % terms from 2009 . The Social Democrat vote was rather higher than that quoted in the article as in some areas they ran on tickets with 1 or more other parties and it is not possible to say what portion of that 15% or so of the vote would have been PSD .

[andrea]

PS 36.34% (136 chambers controlled)
PS-BE-PND-MPT-PTP-PAN 0.44 (0)
PS-PTP-PND-BE 0.04 (0)

PPD/PSD 16.59% (82)
PPD/PSD.CDS-PP 7.69% (14)
PPD/PSD.CDS-PP.MP 2.08% (0)
PPD/PSD.CDS-PP.PPM 1.94 (2)
PPD/PSD.PPM 1.32 (1)
PPD/PSD.PPM.MPT 0.9 (0)
PPD/PSD.CDS-PP.MPT.PPM 0.49 (1)
PPD/PSD.MPT.PPM 0.41 (0)
PPD/PSD.CDS-PP.PPM.MPT 0.08 (0)
PPD/PSD.MPT 0.04 (0)

CDS-PP 3.04% (5)
CDS-PP.MPT.PPM 0.19 (0)
CDS-PP.PPD/PSD 0.1 (0)
CDS-PP.MPT 0.06 (0)

Communists 11.09% (30)

GRUPO CIDADÃOS (who are they?) 6.66% (11)

Bloco de Esquerda 2.42% (0)

[marksenior]

I may be wrong but I deduced that GRUPO CIDADAOS are a loose? federation ? of Independents .

[Devonian]

Sept 30, 2013 6:46:03 GMT marksenior said:

I am not sure that report is strictly correct . The Socialists did make gains although their vote was slightly down in % terms from 2009 . The Social Democrat vote was rather higher than that quoted in the article as in some areas they ran on tickets with 1 or more other parties and it is not possible to say what portion of that 15% or so of the vote would have been PSD .

I get the impression looking at the results that it wasn't so much that the PS results were that great but that they made gains because the PSD and allies results were worse. The real gains in terms of vote share seem to be made by the Communists and Independents. One of the Grupo CidadÃos seems to have gained control of Porto Council. The gains by the Communists are reversing a long term trend of decline for them, although I wonder if thats in part due to a decline in the BE vote. It will be interesting to see how they all do in next years European elections.

[Devonian]

Sept 30, 2013 9:29:19 GMT marksenior said:

I may be wrong but I deduced that GRUPO CIDADAOS are a loose? federation ? of Independents .

Because Portuguese elections are done on a list system people who want to run as independents have to form a list so I suppose they are the equivalent of Residents Association type parties here.

[marksenior]

Sept 30, 2013 23:26:25 GMT Devonian said:

Sept 30, 2013 6:46:03 GMT marksenior said:

I am not sure that report is strictly correct . The Socialists did make gains although their vote was slightly down in % terms from 2009 . The Social Democrat vote was rather higher than that quoted in the article as in some areas they ran on tickets with 1 or more other parties and it is not possible to say what portion of that 15% or so of the vote would have been PSD .

I get the impression looking at the results that it wasn't so much that the PS results were that great but that they made gains because the PSD and allies results were worse. The real gains in terms of vote share seem to be made by the Communists and Independents. One of the Grupo CidadÃos seems to have gained control of Porto Council. The gains by the Communists are reversing a long term trend of decline for them, although I wonder if thats in part due to a decline in the BE vote. It will be interesting to see how they all do in next years European elections.

Yes I pretty much agree with that though add that EM BRANCO and NULOS vote shares also doubled though remaining at low levels .