1996 Azorean regional election

1996 Azorean regional election Azores parliamentary 1992 Azorean regional election 1992 13 October 1996 2000 Azorean regional election 2000 52 seats to the Legislative Assembly of Azores 27 59.2% 3.0 pp CarlosCésar.jpg 220 110 150 10 60 Carlos César Socialist Party (Portugal) São Miguel 21 seats, 36.4% 24 3 51,906 45.8% 9.4 pp 75px Álvaro Dâmaso Social Democratic Party (Portugal) São Miguel 28 seats, 53.6% 24 4 46,449 41.0% 12.6 pp Pt_regelection_1996.PNG 250px Map of Azores showing constituencies won President Alberto Costa Social Democratic Party (Portugal) Carlos César Socialist Party (Portugal) The 1996 Azores Regional Election (pt Eleições Regionais dos Açores, 1996) was an election held on 13 October 1996 to elected the 52 seats for the regional legislative assembly of the Portuguese autonomous region of the Azores. The Socialist Party, under the leadership of Carlos César, won with 45 percent of the votes, while their direct rivals, the Social Democratic Party, won 41 percent of the votes, although both parties tied in seats, each party winning 24 MPs. It was the first victory of the Socialists in a regional election since democracy was restored, with the PS holding on to the status as the largest party in the assembly until 2024. Voter turnout was relatively high with just over 59.17 percent of the electorate casting their ballot on election day. Electoral system For the 1996 election, the Azores regional parliament elected 52 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. Constituency Total MPshttps://www.cne.pt/sites/default/files/dl/md_alra1996.html Comissão Nacional de Eleições 8 August 1996 25 October 2024 Mapa com o número de deputados da Assembleia Legislativa Regional dos Açores e a sua distribuição pelos círculos eleitorais. Registeredvoters Corvo 2 Faial 4 Flores 3 Graciosa 3 Pico 4 Santa Maria 3 São Jorge 4 São Miguel 19 Terceira 10 Total 52 Political parties A total of 6 political parties presented lists of candidates for the regional elections in the Azores, where 191,477 electors could elect 52 deputies to the Legislative Assembly. Of these parties, some of the more prominent: Democratic Party of the Atlantic (PDA). Democratic Unity Coalition (CDU), an alliance of the Greens and Portuguese Communist Party (PCP). People's Democratic Union (UDP). People's Party (CDS-PP), an alliance with the People's Monarchist Party (PPM). Socialist Party (PS), leader Carlos César. Social Democratic Party (PSD), leader Álvaro Dâmaso.Campanha para as Regionais 96 nos Açores https://arquivos.rtp.pt/conteudos/campanha-para-as-regionais-96-nos-acores/ 2026-01-25 1996-10-04 RTP Arquivo pt Results The winner of the election was the Socialist Party which, for the first time received a plurality of the public vote, although they obtained a comparable number of representatives in the Regional Assembly. After 20 years of successive right-of-centre Social Democratic victories, Carlos Manuel Martins do Vale César became the new president of the Regional Government, succeeding Alberto Romão Madruga da Costa. At the same time, the Democratic Alliance of the Azores lost its only deputy, while the People's Party (which had not participated in the last election) elected three deputies (with 7% of the vote). Meanwhile, the Unitary Democratic Coalition, led by the Portuguese Communist Party maintained its one deputy MP by electing one deputy on the island of Flores. The People's Democratic Union did not elect a single deputy. Summary of votes and seats Summary of the 13 October 1996 Legislative Assembly of Azores elections results |- | colspan="10" align=center|#F8F9FA Unitary Democratic Coalition 1 Socialist Party (Portugal) 24 Social Democratic Party (Portugal) 24 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"|1992 ! align="center"|1996 ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|± ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|% ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|± |- | Socialist Party (Portugal) Socialist |51,906||45.82||9.4||21||24||3||46.15||5.0 |- | Social Democratic Party (Portugal) Social Democratic |46,449||41.00||12.6||28||24||4||46.15||8.7 |- | CDS – People's Party People's CDS The People's Party contested the 1992 election in an alliance formed by the People's Party (1 seat) and the People's Monarchist Party (0 seats). |8,346||7.37||||1||3||2||5.77||3.8 |- | Democratic Unity Coalition Democratic Unity Coalition |3,940||3.48||1.2||1||1||0||1.92||0.1 |- |style="width: 10px" bgcolor=Popular Democratic Union (Portugal) align="center" | |align=left|People's Democratic Union |983||0.87||||||0||||0.00|| |- | Democratic Party of the Atlantic |340||0.30||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"|111,964 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|98.83 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|0.5 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|51 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|52 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|1 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|0.0 |- |colspan=2|Blank ballots |705||0.62||0.1||colspan=5 rowspan=4| |- |colspan=2|Invalid ballots |624||0.55||0.6 |- |colspan=2 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total |width="50" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|113,293 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| |- |colspan=2|Registered voters/turnout ||191,477||59.17||3.0 |- | colspan=10 align=left | Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições https://web.archive.org/web/20120516000812/http://eleicoes.cne.pt/cne2005/raster/index.cfm?dia=13&mes=10&ano=1996&eleicao=alr 2012-05-16 |} Vote share #ddd 600px 410px PS Socialist Party (Portugal) 45.82 PSD Social Democratic Party (Portugal) 41.00 CDS-PP Democratic and Social Centre – People's Party 7.37 CDU Portuguese Communist Party 3.48 UDP Popular Democratic Union (Portugal) 0.87 PDA Democratic Party of the Atlantic 0.30 Blank/Invalid #DDDDDD 1.17 Parliamentary seats #ddd 600px 410px PS Socialist Party (Portugal) 46.15 PSD Social Democratic Party (Portugal) 46.15 CDS-PP Democratic and Social Centre – People's Party 5.77 CDU Portuguese Communist Party 1.92 Distribution by constituency Results of the 1996 election of the Legislative Assemblyof Azores by constituency yes |- class="unsortable" !rowspan=2|Constituency!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S !rowspan=2|TotalS |- class="unsortable" style="text-align:center;" !colspan=2 | PS !colspan=2 | PSD !colspan=2 | CDS-PP !colspan=2 | CDU |- | style="text-align:left;" | Corvo | 29.3 | - | 32.9 | 1 | style="background:CDS – People's Party; color:white;"|35.8 | 1 |colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"| | 2 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Faial | style="background:Socialist Party (Portugal); color:white;"|44.6 | 2 | 41.7 | 2 | 6.4 | - | 5.5 | - | 4 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Flores | 19.6 | 1 | 30.9 | 1 | 14.9 | - | style="background:red; color:white;"|33.4 | 1 | 3 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Graciosa | 42.5 | 1 | style="background:Social Democratic Party (Portugal); color:white;"|53.2 | 2 | 1.9 | - | 0.7 | - | 3 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Pico | 41.6 | 2 | style="background:Social Democratic Party (Portugal); color:white;"|50.4 | 2 | 4.7 | - | 1.7 | - | 4 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Santa Maria | style="background:Socialist Party (Portugal); color:white;"|60.6 | 2 | 32.3 | 1 | 4.0 | - | 1.5 | - | 3 |- | style="text-align:left;" | São Jorge | 29.7 | 1 | style="background:Social Democratic Party (Portugal); color:white;"|56.0 | 3 | 12.5 | - | 1.0 | - | 4 |- | style="text-align:left;" | São Miguel | style="background:Socialist Party (Portugal); color:white;"|46.6 | 10 | 40.3 | 8 | 5.9 | 1 | 3.8 | - | 19 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Terceira | style="background:Socialist Party (Portugal); color:white;"|50.4 | 5 | 36.8 | 4 | 10.2 | 1 | 1.2 | - | 10 |- class="unsortable" style="background:#E9E9E9" | style="text-align:left;" | Total | style="background:Socialist Party (Portugal); color:white;"|45.8 | 24 | 41.0 | 24 | 7.4 | 3 | 3.5 | 1 | 52 |- | colspan=10 style="text-align:left;" | Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições https://web.archive.org/web/20120516000812/http://eleicoes.cne.pt/cne2005/raster/index.cfm?dia=13&mes=10&ano=1996&eleicao=alr 2012-05-16 |} Maps Aftermath Government approval For the first time since democracy was established, the PSD failed to remain as the most voted party in the Azores and the PS formed a minority government. CDS – People's Party (CDS–PP) supported, from the outside, the PS minority government. 29 October 2020 https://www.sabado.pt/portugal/detalhe/1996-a-outra-minoria-do-ps-acores 1996: a outra minoria do PS Açores pt Sábado Lisbon 11 February 2024 On 22 November 1996, the regional parliament approved the first center-left government in Azorean history: 1996 Motion of confidenceCarlos César (PS) Ballot → 22 November 1996 Required majority → Simple Yes • PS (24) • CDS–PP (3) 27 52 green 125px No • PSD (24) 24 52 red 125px Abstentions • PCP (1) 1 52 gray 125px Absentees 0 52 black 125pxResult → Approved 15 Sources 22 November 1996 https://base.alra.pt:82/4DACTION/w_pesquisa_registo/10/245 Texto Diário - 0.599MB pt Legislative Assembly of the Azores Azores 11 February 2024 See also 1996 Madeiran regional election Notes References External links Comissão Nacional de Eleições Legislative Assembly of Azores - Official website Azores 1996 Category:1996 elections in Portugal