1911 Portuguese National Constituent Assembly election

none Portugal parliamentary 1910 Portuguese legislative election 1910 1913 Portuguese legislative election 1913 All 234 seats in the National Constituent Assembly 118 28 May 1911 Teófilo Braga, 1915 - António Novais (cropped).png 140 110 150 5 10 Teófilo Braga Portuguese Republican Party 229 AzedoGneco1.png 140 110 150 5 15 Azedo Gneco Portuguese Socialist Party 2 Prime Minister Prime Minister after election Teófilo Braga Portuguese Republican Party Teófilo Braga Portuguese Republican Party National Constituent Assembly elections were held in Portugal on 28 May 1911 following a coup in October 1910.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1542 978-3-8329-5609-7 The result was a victory for the Portuguese Republican Party, which won 229 of the 234 seats.Nohlen & Stöver, p1551 Electoral system The country was divided into 51 constituencies for the elections.Nohlen & Stöver, p1534 Lisbon elected 20 members from two 10 member seats using proportional representation and the d'Hondt method, whilst Porto had one 10 member constituency using the same system. The remaining seats were elected from 48 constituencies with three or four members using limited voting. Property qualifications for voters were abolished and suffrage was extended to all adults who were either literate or heads of their households, as well as soldiers, who had previously been barred from voting.Nohlen & Stöver, pp1533-1534 Bankrupts and "vagabonds" were excluded from the electoral roll. Candidates for the election had to be literate, and could not run in more than one seat. Party lists had to obtain a certain number of signatures in every constituency (100 in Lisbon and Porto and 25 in other constituencies) in order to contest the election. Parties The table below lists the parties that contested the elections: Party Ideology Position Leader PRP Portuguese Republican PartyPartido Republicano PortuguêsRepublicanismRadicalismCentre Teófilo Braga PSP Portuguese Socialist PartyPartido Socialista PortuguêsSocialismProudhonismLeft-wing Azedo Gneco Results File:Portugal Chamber of Deputies 1911.svg Portuguese Republican Party 229 Portuguese Socialist Party 2 Independents 3 846801 Nohlen & Stöver Parliamentary seats #ddd 550px 500px Republicans #228B22 97.86 Socialist Party #EF1C27 0.85 Others #DDDDDD 1.31 Aftermath The 1911 constitution was subsequently drawn up, which provided for a bicameral parliament and a president elected by a two-thirds vote in parliament. This constitution provided that the Assembly would partition itself into two bodies to form the first parliament: 71 of its members would form the Senate, while the remaining membership would become the Chamber of Deputies. References Category:Legislative elections in Portugal Constituent Portugal Category:Constituent assembly elections in Europe