Azores regional election, 2016
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The Azores Regional Election (2016) (Portuguese: Eleições Regionais dos Açores, 2016) will be held on October 16 of the same year. In this election the current president of government, led by the Socialist Vasco Cordeiro, will be seeking a second term.
In this election, the PS maintened their absolute majority but lost one seat and lost 2.6% of the vote compared to 2012. The Social Democrats also lost one seat although their vote share fall was lower than the Socialists. The big winner was the People's Party which gain 7% of the vote and gained one seat compared to 2012. The Left Bloc also won one more seat compared to last time while the CDU maintened their only seat but at the same time, gained in share of the vote and was the most voted party in the island of Flores. The PPM also maintened their seat in the island of Corvo.
Turnout in this election was the lowest ever, as only 40.84% of the electorate cast a ballot.
Electoral system
The Azores regional parliament elects 57 members through a proportional system in which the 9 islands elect a number of MPs proportional to the number of registered voters. MPs are allocated by using the d'Hondt method. 5 members are also elected for a Compensation constituency.
| Constituency | Total MPs |
Registered voters[4] |
|---|---|---|
| Corvo | 2 | 334 |
| Faial | 4 | 13,019 |
| Flores | 3 | 3,187 |
| Graciosa | 3 | 4,411 |
| Pico | 4 | 13,496 |
| Santa Maria | 3 | 5,499 |
| São Jorge | 3 | 8 648 |
| São Miguel | 20 | 127,206 |
| Terceira | 10 | 52,409 |
| Compensation | 5 | |
| Total | 57 | 228,259 |
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) | Zuraida Soares | 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.
Vote
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Exit poll
| Polling firm/Link | Fieldwork date | Sample size |
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CDU | O | Lead |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Regional Election | 16.10.16 | N/A | 40.8% | 46.4 | 30.9 | 7.2 | 3.7 | 2.6 | 9.2 | 15.5 |
| UCP-CESOP[5] | 04.10.16 | ? | ? | 52.5 | 29.0 | 6.0 | 3.0 | 2.0 | 7.5 | 23.5 |
| Norma Açores | 20.09.16–28.09.16 | ? | 65.4% | 66.9 | 20.7 | 3.2 | 1.7 | 1.2 | 6.3 | 46.2 |
| Legislative Election | 04.10.15 | N/A | 41.2% | 40.4 | 36.1 | 3.9 | 7.8 | 2.5 | 9.3 | 4.3 |
| Norma Açores | 15.04.15–21.04.15 | 503 | ? | 33.2 | 27.9 | 1.1 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 6.1 | 5.3 |
| EP Election | 25.05.14 | N/A | 19.7% | 41.3 | 29.6 | 3.9 | 3.7 | 21.5 | 11.7 | |
| Local Elections | 29.09.13 | N/A | 54.0% | 46.9 | 41.9 | 2.6 | 1.6 | 1.7 | 5.3 | 5.0 |
| Regional Election | 14.10.12 | N/A | 47.9% | 49.0 | 33.0 | 5.6 | 2.3 | 1.9 | 8.2 | 16.0 |
Results
| Parties | Votes | % | ±pp swing | MPs | MPs %/ votes % | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 2016 | ± | % | ± | ||||||
| Socialist | 43,274 | 46.43 |  2.6 | 31 | 30 | 1 | 52.63 | 1.8 | 1.13 | |
| Social Democratic | 28,793 | 30.90 | 2.1 | 20 | 19 | 1 | 33.33 | 1.8 | 1.08 | |
| People's | 6,674 | 7.16 |  1.6 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 7.02 | 1.8 | 0.98 | |
| Left Bloc | 3,414 | 3.66 | 1.4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3.51 | 1.8 | 0.96 | |
| Democratic Unity Coalition[A] | 2,437 | 2.61 | 0.7 | 1 | 1 |  0 | 1.75 | 0.0 | 0.67 | |
| People–Animals–Nature | 1,342 | 1.44 | 0.8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| People's Monarchist Party | 866 | 0.93 | 0.8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1.75 | 0.0 | 1.88 | |
| United Party of Retirees and Pensioners | 451 | 0.48 | N/A | N/A | 0 | N/A | 0.00 | N/A | 0.0 | |
| Earth Party | 343 | 0.37 | 0.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| Workers' Communist Party | 299 | 0.32 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| FREE/Time to move Forward | 227 | 0.24 | N/A | N/A | 0 | N/A | 0.00 | N/A | 0.0 | |
| Democratic Republican | 83 | 0.09 | N/A | N/A | 0 | N/A | 0.00 | N/A | 0.0 | |
| Socialist Alternative Movement | 67 | 0.07 | N/A | N/A | 0 | N/A | 0.00 | N/A | 0.0 | |
| Total valid | 88,270 | 94.69 | 0.8 |
57 | 57 | 0 |
100.00 | 0.0 |
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| Blank ballots | 2,697 | 2.90 | 0.3 | |||||||
| Invalid ballots | 2,227 | 2.40 | 1.1 | |||||||
| Total (turnout 40.85%) | 93,194 | 100.00 | 7.0 | |||||||
| A Portuguese Communist Party (1 MPs) and "The Greens" (0 MPs) ran in coalition. | ||||||||||
| Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições | ||||||||||
Distribution by constituency
| Constituency | % | S | % | S | % | S | % | S | % | S | % | S | Total S |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PS | PSD | CDS-PP | BE | CDU | PPM | ||||||||
| Corvo | 36.7 | 1 | 26.2 | - | 0.4 | - | 1.6 | - | 32.0 | 1 | 2 | ||
| Faial | 32.6 | 2 | 41.2 | 2 | 6.5 | - | 6.4 | - | 4.6 | - | 1.5 | - | 4 |
| Flores | 23.7 | 1 | 21.0 | 1 | 17.0 | - | 1.3 | - | 32.5 | 1 | 3 | ||
| Graciosa | 54.6 | 2 | 36.7 | 1 | 1.7 | - | 1.2 | - | 0.5 | - | 0.5 | - | 3 |
| Pico | 39.5 | 2 | 37.8 | 2 | 14.1 | - | 1.1 | - | 1.5 | - | 0.4 | - | 4 |
| Santa Maria | 50.3 | 2 | 29.1 | 1 | 1.8 | - | 4.4 | - | 8.3 | - | 0.6 | - | 3 |
| São Jorge | 39.5 | 1 | 21.4 | 1 | 26.3 | 1 | 2.8 | - | 3.0 | - | 0.7 | - | 3 |
| São Miguel | 49.2 | 12 | 30.6 | 7 | 3.2 | - | 4.2 | 1 | 1.5 | - | 1.2 | - | 20 |
| Terceira | 49.0 | 6 | 28.8 | 3 | 10.1 | 1 | 3.1 | - | 1.5 | - | 0.3 | - | 10 |
| Compensation | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | - | 5 | ||||||
| Total | 46.4 | 30 | 30.9 | 19 | 7.2 | 4 | 3.7 | 2 | 2.6 | 1 | 0.9 | 1 | 57 |
| Source: Azores Government | |||||||||||||
References
- ↑ "ALRAA-2016 - marcação oficial da data da eleição - 16 outubro 2016" (in Portuguese). Lisbon, Portugal: Comissão Nacional de Eleições. 30 June 2016. Retrieved 7 July 2016.
- ↑ Alteração à Lei Eleitoral da ALRA dos Açores - CNE (in Portuguese), Lisbon, Portugal: Comissão Nacional dos Eleições, archived from the original on 2009-02-19
- 1 2 Assembleia Legislativa dos Açores - Deputados e Grupos Parlamentares
- ↑ Mapa de Deputados (PDF), Lisbon, Portugal: Diário da Républica, 19 August 2016
- ↑ This poll provides data ranges and/or approximations. In order to simplify, the average of these data is given.
External links
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