2000 Madeiran regional election

The Madeira Regional Election (2000) (Portuguese: Eleições Regionais da Madeira, 2000) was an election held on 15 October 2000 for the legislative assembly and government of the Portuguese autonomous region of the Madeira. There were 61 seats in dispute, two more than in the previous election, distributed by the 11 municipalities of the archipelago proportionally to the number of registered voters of each municipality.

2000 Madeiran regional election

15 October 2000

61 seats to the Legislative Assembly of Madeira
31 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party
 
Leader Alberto João Jardim Mota Torres
Party PSD PS
Leader's seat Funchal Funchal
Last election 41 seats, 56.9% 13 seats, 24.8%
Seats won 41 13
Seat change 0 0
Popular vote 72,588 27,290
Percentage 56.0% 21.0%
Swing 0.9 pp 3.8 pp

The most voted party in each municipality.

President before election

Alberto João Jardim
PSD

President-designate

Alberto João Jardim
PSD

The winner of the election in Madeira was, once more, the Social Democratic Party, and Alberto João Jardim was elected president of the Regional Government with an absolute majority for the 7th consecutive time. The percentage gathered by the Social Democrats decreased by 1%, however, due to the increase of the overall number of MPs, the party kept their 41 mandates.

The People's Party increased its voting and its number of MPs, gathering a total of 3 mandates.

On the left, the Socialist Party kept its 13 MPs after, despite losing more than 3% of the voting. The Unitarian Democratic Coalition, led by the Portuguese Communist Party, increased the voting and kept the 2 Mps of the previous election. The People's Democratic Union raised the number of MPs from 1 to 2 after a slight increase of the voting.

Voter turnout was lower, compared with 1996, with 61.9% of the electorate casting their ballot on election day.

Electoral system

In this election, the members of the regional parliament were elected in 11 constituencies, representing the 11 municipalities of Madeira, that were awarded a determined number of member to elect according with the number of registered voters in those constituencies. The method use to elect the members was the D'Hondt method.[1] In this election the number of MPs to be elected rose from 59 in 1996 to 61.

Political parties

A total of 6 political parties presented lists of candidates for the regional elections in Madeira, where 209,541 electors could elect 61 deputies to the Legislative Assembly. The list of parties running was the following:

Results

Summary of votes and seats

 Summary of the 15 October 2000 Legislative Assembly of Madeira elections results
Parties Votes % ±pp swing MPs MPs %/
votes %
1996 2000 ± % ±
Social Democratic 72,58855.950.94141067.212.31.20
Socialist 27,29021.043.81313021.310.71.01
People's 12,6129.722.42314.921.50.51
People's Democratic Union 6,2104.790.81213.281.60.68
Democratic Unity Coalition 6,0154.640.62203.280.10.71
National Solidarity 2,2431.731.10000.000.00.0
Total valid 126,958 97.86 0.3 59 61 2 100.00 0.0
Blank ballots 1,1360.880.2
Invalid ballots 1,6401.260.2
Total 129,734 100.00
Registered voters/turnout 209,54161.913.4
Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições
Vote share
PSD
55.95%
PS
21.04%
CDS-PP
9.72%
UDP
4.79%
CDU
4.64%
PSN
1.73%
Blank/Invalid
2.14%
Parliamentary seats
PSD
67.21%
PS
21.31%
CDS-PP
4.92%
UDP
3.28%
CDU
3.28%

Distribution by constituency

 Results of the 2000 election of the Legislative Assembly
of Madeira
by constituency
Constituency%S%S%S%S%S Total
S
PSD PS CDS-PP UDP CDU
Calheta 66.3 3 7.4 - 21.8 - 1.3 - 0.9 - 3
Câmara de Lobos 67.8 5 15.1 1 6.7 - 3.3 - 4.4 - 6
Funchal 50.2 15 19.3 6 10.7 3 7.3 2 7.5 2 28
Machico 56.1 3 31.3 2 5.3 - 2.6 - 2.3 - 5
Ponta do Sol 59.0 2 28.0 - 8.5 - 2.0 - 0.5 - 2
Porto Moniz 57.8 1 33.6 1 5.4 - 0.6 - 0.7 - 2
Porto Santo 50.2 1 43.1 1 2.6 - 1.4 - 0.3 - 2
Ribeira Brava 69.2 3 13.7 - 10.1 - 0.8 - 1.2 - 3
Santa Cruz 52.5 4 26.4 2 9.8 - 4.1 - 3.4 - 6
Santana 63.6 2 22.7 - 7.4 - 2.0 - 0.9 - 2
São Vicente 60.9 2 23.5 - 9.5 - 2.0 - 0.9 - 2
Total 56.0 41 21.0 13 9.7 3 4.8 2 4.6 2 61
Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições

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See also

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