2000 Madeiran regional election

2000 Madeiran regional election Madeira parliamentary 1996 Madeiran regional election 1996 15 October 2000 2004 Madeiran regional election 2004 61 seats to the Legislative Assembly of Madeira 31 61.9% 3.4 pp 85px José Mota Torres Socialist Party (Portugal) Funchal 13 seats, 24.8% 13 0 27,290 21.0% 3.8 pp Alberto João Jardim (cropped).jpg 165 110 150 0 30 Alberto João Jardim Social Democratic Party (Portugal) Funchal 41 seats, 56.9% 41 0 72,588 56.0% 0.9 pp José Manuel Rodrigues (24.º Congresso Nacional do PS, 2024).png 150 110 150 0 17 José Manuel Rodrigues CDS – People's Party Funchal 2 seats, 9.7% 3 1 12,612 9.7% 2.4 pp 80px Paulo Martins Popular Democratic Union (Portugal) Funchal 1 seat, 4.0% 2 1 6,210 4.8% 0.8 pp Edgar-silva-2016-01-11.jpg 115 110 150 0 0 FF0000 Edgar Silva CDU Funchal 2 seats, 4.0% 2 0 6,015 4.6% 0.6 pp Pt regelection2 1996.PNG 250px The most voted party in each municipality. President Alberto João Jardim Social Democratic Party (Portugal) Alberto João Jardim Social Democratic Party (Portugal) The 2000 Madeira Regional Election (pt Eleições Regionais da Madeira de 2000) was an election held on 15 October 2000 to elect the 61 members of the regioanl legislative assembly for the Portuguese autonomous region of the Madeira. There was an increase of two more seats in dispute, compared with the previous election, distributed by the 11 municipalities of the archipelago, proportionally to the number of registered voters of each municipality. 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 one percentage point, 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 percent of the votes. The Unitary 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 percent 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.ESTATUTO POLÍTICO-ADMINISTRATIVO da REGIÃO AUTÓNOMA da MADEIRA In this election the number of MPs to be elected rose from 59 in 1996 to 61. Constituency Total MPs Registeredvotershttps://www.cne.pt/sites/default/files/dl/md_alrm2000.html Comissão Nacional de Eleições 25 October 2024 Mapa com o número de deputados da Assembleia Legislativa Regional dos Madeira 2000 Calheta 3 10,288 Câmara de Lobos 6 22,667 Funchal 28 96,465 Machico 5 18,618 Ponta do Sol 2 6,963 Porto Moniz 2 3,062 Porto Santo 2 3,934 Ribeira Brava 3 11,066 Santa Cruz 6 22,004 Santana 2 8,535 São Vicente 2 5,886 Total 61 209,488 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: Democratic Unity Coalition (CDU), an alliance of the Greens and Portuguese Communist Party (PCP). People's Democratic Union (UDP). People's Party (CDS-PP) National Solidarity Party (PSN) Socialist Party (PS), leader José Carlos Pinto Basto da Mota Torres. Social Democratic Party (PSD), leader Alberto João Jardim. Results Summary of votes and seats Summary of the 15 October 2000 Legislative Assembly of Madeira elections results |- | colspan="10" align=center|#F8F9FA Popular Democratic Union (Portugal) 2 Unitary Democratic Coalition 2 Socialist Party (Portugal) 13 Social Democratic Party (Portugal) 41 CDS – People's Party 3 |- ! rowspan="2" colspan=2 style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=left|Parties ! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|Votes ! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|% ! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|±pp swing ! colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|MPs |- style="background-color:#E9E9E9" ! align="center"|1996 ! align="center"|2000 ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|± ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|% ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|± |- | Social Democratic Party (Portugal) Social Democratic |72,588||55.95||0.9||41||41||0||67.21||2.3 |- | Socialist Party (Portugal) Socialist |27,290||21.04||3.8||13||13||0||21.31||0.7 |- | Democratic and Social Centre – People's Party People's |12,612||9.72||2.4||2||3||1||4.92||1.5 |- |style="width: 10px" bgcolor=Popular Democratic Union (Portugal) align="center" | |align=left|People's Democratic Union |6,210||4.79||0.8||1||2||1||3.28||1.6 |- | Democratic Unity Coalition Democratic Unity Coalition |6,015||4.64||0.6||2||2||0||3.28||0.1 |- |style="width: 10px" bgcolor=#000080 align="center" | |align=left|National Solidarity |2,243||1.73||1.1||0||0||0||0.00||0.0 |- |colspan=2 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total valid |width="50" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|126,958 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|97.86 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|0.3 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|59 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|61 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|2 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|0.0 |- |colspan=2|Blank ballots |1,136||0.88||0.2||colspan=5 rowspan=4| |- |colspan=2|Invalid ballots |1,640||1.26||0.2 |- |colspan=2 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total |width="50" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|129,734 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| |- |colspan=2|Registered voters/turnout ||209,541||61.91||3.4 |- | colspan=10 align=left | Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições |} Vote share #ddd 600px 410px PSD Social Democratic Party (Portugal) 55.95 PS Socialist Party (Portugal) 21.04 CDS-PP Democratic and Social Centre – People's Party 9.72 UDP Popular Democratic Union (Portugal) 4.79 CDU Portuguese Communist Party 4.64 PSN #000080 1.73 Blank/Invalid #DDDDDD 2.14 Parliamentary seats #ddd 600px 410px PSD Social Democratic Party (Portugal) 67.21 PS Socialist Party (Portugal) 21.31 CDS-PP Democratic and Social Centre – People's Party 4.92 UDP Popular Democratic Union (Portugal) 3.28 CDU Portuguese Communist Party 3.28 Distribution by constituency Results of the 2000 election of the Legislative Assemblyof Madeira by constituency yes |- class="unsortable" !rowspan=2|Constituency!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S !rowspan=2|TotalS |- class="unsortable" style="text-align:center;" !colspan=2 | PSD !colspan=2 | PS !colspan=2 | CDS-PP !colspan=2 | UDP !colspan=2 | CDU |- | style="text-align:left;" | Calheta | style="background:Social Democratic Party (Portugal); color:white;"|66.3 | 3 | 7.4 | - | 21.8 | - | 1.3 | - | 0.9 | - | 3 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Câmara de Lobos | style="background:Social Democratic Party (Portugal); color:white;"|67.8 | 5 | 15.1 | 1 | 6.7 | - | 3.3 | - | 4.4 | - | 6 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Funchal | style="background:Social Democratic Party (Portugal); color:white;"|50.2 | 15 | 19.3 | 6 | 10.7 | 3 | 7.3 | 2 | 7.5 | 2 | 28 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Machico | style="background:Social Democratic Party (Portugal); color:white;"|56.1 | 3 | 31.3 | 2 | 5.3 | - | 2.6 | - | 2.3 | - | 5 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Ponta do Sol | style="background:Social Democratic Party (Portugal); color:white;"|59.0 | 2 | 28.0 | - | 8.5 | - | 2.0 | - | 0.5 | - | 2 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Porto Moniz | style="background:Social Democratic Party (Portugal); color:white;"|57.8 | 1 | 33.6 | 1 | 5.4 | - | 0.6 | - | 0.7 | - | 2 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Porto Santo | style="background:Social Democratic Party (Portugal); color:white;"|50.2 | 1 | 43.1 | 1 | 2.6 | - | 1.4 | - | 0.3 | - | 2 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Ribeira Brava | style="background:Social Democratic Party (Portugal); color:white;"|69.2 | 3 | 13.7 | - | 10.1 | - | 0.8 | - | 1.2 | - | 3 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Santa Cruz | style="background:Social Democratic Party (Portugal); color:white;"|52.5 | 4 | 26.4 | 2 | 9.8 | - | 4.1 | - | 3.4 | - | 6 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Santana | style="background:Social Democratic Party (Portugal); color:white;"|63.6 | 2 | 22.7 | - | 7.4 | - | 2.0 | - | 0.9 | - | 2 |- | style="text-align:left;" | São Vicente | style="background:Social Democratic Party (Portugal); color:white;"|60.9 | 2 | 23.5 | - | 9.5 | - | 2.0 | - | 0.9 | - | 2 |- class="unsortable" style="background:#E9E9E9" | style="text-align:left;" | Total | style="background:Social Democratic Party (Portugal); color:white;"|56.0 | 41 | 21.0 | 13 | 9.7 | 3 | 4.8 | 2 | 4.6 | 2 | 61 |- | colspan=12 style="text-align:left;" | Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições |} Maps See also 2000 Azores regional election References External links Comissão Nacional de Eleições Legislative Assembly of Madeira - Official website Madeira 2000 Madeira Category:October 2000 in Portugal