1856 Portuguese legislative election

none Portugal 1830 Parliamentary 1852 Portuguese legislative election 1852 1858 Portuguese legislative election 1858 All 162 seats in the Chamber of Deputies 82 9 November 1856 130x130px Historic Party 1st Duke of Loulé Duque de Loulé, Palácio de São Bento.png 170 95 130 10 33 – 116 New Regenerator Party Rodrigo da Fonseca Magalhães pt Rodrigo da Fonseca Magalhães (Grémio Literário).png 235 95 130 20 82 121 seats 41 80 Miguelist 3x4.svg – 5 New Prime Minister Prime Minister after election 1st Duke of Loulé Historic Party 1st Duke of Loulé Historic Party Legislative elections were held in Portugal on 9 November 1856. Results The elected Miguelistas did not take their oath of office. File:Portugal Chamber of Deputies 1856.svg Historic Party 116 New Regenerator Party 41 –79 Miguelistas 5 New +8 ISCSP http://www.iscsp.utl.pt/~cepp/eleicoes_portuguesas/1856.htm Eleições de 1856 9 September 2014 pt https://web.archive.org/web/20050111063950/http://www.iscsp.utl.pt/~cepp/eleicoes_portuguesas/1856.htm 11 January 2005 dead http://www.iscsp.utl.pt/~cepp/eleicoes_em_portugal.htm Eleições Gerais Portuguesas desde 1820 9 September 2014 pt https://web.archive.org/web/20050105172845/http://www.iscsp.utl.pt/~cepp/eleicoes_em_portugal.htm 2005-01-05 dead Results by constituency September 2026 The minutes of the preparatory session of the Chamber of Deputies held on 19 January 1857, at which the credentials committees presented their reports, record the voting in some constituencies. Once the verification was complete, the president of the preparatory session proclaimed the deputies whose credentials had been approved.19 January 1857 Sessão de 19 de janeiro de 1857 Session of 19 January 1857 https://debates.parlamento.pt/catalogo/mc/cd/01/01/01/013/1857-01-19 27 September 2026 Diário da Câmara dos Senhores Deputados Assembleia da República 127–142 pt In the tables below, the percentage shows the proportion of the constituency's voters who voted for each candidate, and elected candidates are shown in bold. Each elector in a multi-member constituency could vote for more than one candidate. Sintra The constituency of Sintra returned two deputies and had eight polling assemblies and 2,081 voters.Sintra (2 seats) Lourenço Correia Manuel de Carvalho e Aboim 1,137 54.64 Francisco de Sena Fernandes 978 47.00 Frederico Guilherme da Silva Pereira 791 38.01 Torquato Máximo de Almeida 667 32.05 2,081 The Sintra election was disputed. The committee noted irregularities at the assemblies of Mafra, where thirteen officers of the 1st Infantry Regiment registered in the municipality of Belém had voted; Gradil, where 101 ballots written on wavy-edged, cut paper had been counted although they should have been declared void; and Montelavar, where one elector protested against bribery and coercion allegedly carried out by parish magistrates (regedores). Since the two elected candidates would have kept their majority even if the disputed votes were deducted, the committee recommended that the election be approved. A motion by José Maria do Casal Ribeiro to adjourn the matter so that a parliamentary inquiry could be held into the alleged abuses of the administrator of the municipality of Mafra was rejected, and the report was approved. Funchal The constituency of Funchal returned four deputies, and the tallying assembly counted 4,189 voters. The election took place without protests or complaints.Funchal (4 seats) José Silvestre Ribeiro 2,691 64.24 António Correia Herédia 2,103 50.20 Luís da Câmara Leme 1,683 40.18 Sebastião Frederico Rodrigues Leal 1,592 38.00 4,189 The committee reserved the question of Sebastião Frederico Rodrigues Leal's eligibility for a separate report. Daman and Diu The constituency of Daman and Diu returned one deputy. There were three primary assemblies and no protests against the election were recorded. Apart from the elected candidate, António Afonso Mendes Coutinho received four votes and Avelino José Xavier one vote, both at the Daman assembly.Daman and Diu (1 seat) António de Azevedo e Cunha 2,089 99.76 Goa The constituency of Goa returned three deputies. The minutes do not give the number of voters, so no percentages are shown.Goa (3 seats) Estêvão Jeremias Mascarenhas 5,011 António Afonso Mendes Coutinho 4,210 Bernardo Francisco da Costa 4,049 Sebastião Salvador Cana 3,997 Joaquim Manuel de Melo Mendonça 3,749 Caetano Francisco Pereira Garcez 251 The committee reserved for a separate report the election of António Afonso Mendes Coutinho, judge of the district of Bardez, against whose eligibility protests had been lodged at several assemblies. Angola The constituency of Angola returned two deputies and had 1,432 voters.Angola (2 seats) Francisco Soares Franco 778 54.33 Carlos Possolo de Sousa 589 41.13 António Joaquim de Castro 383 26.75 Simão José da Luz Soriano 315 22.00 1,432 The original minutes were lost in the wreck of the brig Oriente, and the election was verified from certified copies. 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