Portuguese legislative election, 1980

5 October 1980

250 seats to the Portuguese Assembly 125 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party

Leader	Francisco Sá Carneiro	Mário Soares
Party	AD	FRS
Leader since	29 April 1979^{[lower-alpha 1]}	19 April 1973^{[lower-alpha 2]}
Leader's seat	Lisbon^[1]	Lisbon^[2]
Last election	128 seats, 45.3%	74 seats, 27.3%¹
Seats won	134	74
Seat change	6	0
Popular vote	2,868,076	1,673,279
Percentage	47.6%	27.8%
Swing	2.3%	0.5%

The first and the second most voted parties in each district
(Azores and Madeira are not shown)

Prime Minister before election

Francisco Sá Carneiro
PSD

Elected Prime Minister

Francisco Sá Carneiro
PSD

Portugal
This article is part of the series: Politics and government of Portugal

The Portuguese legislative election of 1980 took place on 5 October. In January 1980, the Democratic Alliance, which had won the previous election, on 2 December 1979, entered office with Francisco Sá Carneiro leading the government. However, this election was an extraordinary election, and so, in 1980, another election was held.

Parties

The major parties involved and the respective leaders:

United People Alliance (APU), Álvaro Cunhal
Republican and Socialist Front (FRS), Mário Soares
Democratic Alliance (AD), Francisco Sá Carneiro

The leader of the Democratic Alliance, Francisco Sá Carneiro, member of the Social Democratic Party was nominated Prime-Minister.

National summary of votes and seats

Summary of the 5 October 1980 Assembly of the Republic elections results
Parties			Votes	%	±	Seats
Parties			Votes	%	±	1979	1980	±	%	±
		Democratic Alliance^[A]	2,706,667	44.91	2.4	121	126	5	50.40	2.0
		Social Democratic^[B]	147,644	2.45	0.1	7	8	1	3.20	0.4
		Democratic and Social Centre^[B]	13,765	0.23	0.2	0	0	0	0.00	0.0
	Total Democratic Alliance		2,868,076	47.59	2.3	128	134	6	53.60	2.4
		Republican and Socialist Front^[C]	1,606,198	26.65	N/A	N/A	71	N/A	28.40	N/A
		Socialist^[D]	67,081	1.11	N/A	74	3	N/A	1.20	N/A
	Total Republican and Socialist Front		1,673,279	27.76	0.4¹	74¹	74	0¹	29.60	0.0¹
		United People Alliance^[E]	1,009,505	16.75	2.0	47	41	6	16.40	2.4
		People's Democratic Union	83,204	1.38	0.8	1	1	0	0.40	0.0
		Workers Party of Socialist Unity	83,095	1.38	1.2	0	0	0	0.00	0.0
		Revolutionary Socialist Party	60,496	1.00	0.4	0	0	0	0.00	0.0
		Labour Party	39,408	0.65	N/A	N/A	0	N/A	0.00	N/A
		Workers' Communist Party	35,409	0.59	0.3	0	0	0	0.00	0.0
		PDC / MIRN/PDP / FN	23,819	0.40	N/A	N/A	0	N/A	0.00	N/A
		Democratic Party of the Atlantic	8,529	0.14	N/A	N/A	0	N/A	0.00	N/A
		OCMLP	3,913	0.06	0.0	0	0	0	0.00	0.0
Total valid			5,888,733	97.72	0.4	250	250	0	100.00	0
Blank ballots			34,552	0.57	0.1
Invalid ballots			103,140	1.71	0.3
Total (turnout 83.94%)			6,026,395	100.00	1.0
^A Alliance formed by the Social Democratic Party (74 seats), the Democratic and Social Centre (46 seats) and the People's Monarchist Party (6 seats). ^B Social Democratic Party and Democratic and Social Centre electoral list only in Azores and Madeira. ^C Alliance formed by the Socialist Party (63 seats), the Leftwing Union for the Socialist Democracy (4 seats) and the Independent Social-Democratic Action (4 seats). ^D Socialist Party electoral list only in Azores and Madeira. ^E Portuguese Communist Party (39 MPs) and Portuguese Democratic Movement (2 MPs) ran in coalition.^[3]
Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições

¹ Republican and Socialist Front results are compared to the combined totals of the Socialist Party in the 1979 election.

Vote share

AD			47.59%
FRS			27.76%
APU			16.75%
UDP			1.38%
POUS			1.38%
PSR			1.00%
Others/Invalides			4.12%

Parliamentary seats

AD			53.60%
FRS			29.60%
APU			16.40%
UDP			0.40%

Distribution by constituency

Results of the 1980 election of the Portuguese Assembly of the Republic
by constituency
Constituency	%	S	%	S	%	S	%	S	%	S	%	S	Total S
Constituency	AD		FRS		APU		PSD		PS		UDP		Total S
Azores					3.1	-	57.0	4	27.3	1	1.3	-	5
Aveiro	58.8	10	27.1	4	6.8	1							15
Beja	22.4	1	21.1	1	47.1	3					1.3	-	5
Braga	54.9	9	29.3	5	8.4	1					0.9	-	15
Bragança	65.3	3	21.3	1	4.8	-					1.0	-	4
Castelo Branco	51.0	4	30.3	2	10.5	-					0.7	-	6
Coimbra	46.1	6	35.9	5	9.9	1					0.8	-	12
EvoraÉvora	29.2	1	18.7	1	45.7	3					0.9	-	5
Faro	37.2	4	34.7	4	16.7	1					1.9	-	9
Guarda	60.6	4	26.3	1	5.0	-					0.7	-	5
Leiria	59.8	7	22.7	3	9.7	1					1.0	-	11
Lisbon	41.6	25	28.1	17	23.1	13					1.7	1	56
Madeira					2.9	-	63.6	4	16.5	1	4.5	-	5
Portalegre	33.4	2	32.4	1	26.1	1					0.7	-	4
Porto	46.6	19	34.3	14	11.9	5					1.4	-	38
Santarém	42.1	6	30.4	4	19.0	2					1.2	-	12
Setúbal	24.1	4	23.5	4	44.0	9					2.8	-	17
Viana do Castelo	59.2	5	22.8	1	10.0	-					0.7	-	6
Vila Real	62.1	5	22.8	1	5.1	-					0.8	-	6
Viseu	66.8	8	20.9	2	5.0	-					0.6	-	10
Europe	49.6	1			15.2	-			25.4	1	1.4	-	2
Rest of the World	85.5	2			2.6	-			4.0	-	0.4	-	2
Total	44.9	126	26.7	71	16.8	41	2.5	8	1.1	3	1.4	1	250
Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições

Notes

↑ As leader of the Social Democratic Party (PSD).
↑ As leader of the Socialist Party (PS).

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