2000 Madeiran regional election explained

Election Name:2000 Madeiran regional election
Country:Madeira
Type:parliamentary
Previous Election:1996 Madeiran regional election
Previous Year:1996
Election Date:15 October 2000
Next Election:2004 Madeiran regional election
Next Year:2004
Seats For Election:61 seats to the Legislative Assembly of Madeira
Majority Seats:31
Turnout:61.9% 3.4 pp
Leader2:José Mota Torres
Party2:Socialist Party (Portugal)
Leaders Seat2:Funchal
Last Election2:13 seats, 24.8%
Seats2:13
Seat Change2: 0
Popular Vote2:27,290
Percentage2:21.0%
Swing2: 3.8 pp
Leader1:Alberto João Jardim
Party1:Social Democratic Party (Portugal)
Leaders Seat1:Funchal
Last Election1:41 seats, 56.9%
Seats1:41
Seat Change1: 0
Popular Vote1:72,588
Percentage1:56.0%
Swing1: 0.9 pp
Leader3:José Manuel Rodrigues
Party3:CDS – People's Party
Leaders Seat3:Funchal
Last Election3:2 seats, 9.7%
Seats3:3
Seat Change3: 1
Popular Vote3:12,612
Percentage3:9.7%
Swing3: 2.4 pp
Image4: UDP
Colour4:E2062C
Leader4:Paulo Martins
Party4:UDP
Leaders Seat4:Funchal
Last Election4:1 seat, 4.0%
Seats4:2
Seat Change4: 1
Popular Vote4:6,210
Percentage4:4.8%
Swing4: 0.8 pp
Colour5:FF0000
Leader5:Edgar Silva
Party5:CDU
Leaders Seat5:Funchal
Last Election5:2 seats, 4.0%
Seats5:2
Seat Change5: 0
Popular Vote5:6,015
Percentage5:4.6%
Swing5: 0.6 pp
Map Size:250px
President
Posttitle:President-designate
Before Election:Alberto João Jardim
Before Party:Social Democratic Party (Portugal)
After Election:Alberto João Jardim
After Party:Social Democratic Party (Portugal)

The 2000 Madeira Regional Election (Portuguese: Eleições Regionais da Madeira de 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.

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.[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

|-| colspan="11"||-! 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! rowspan="2" colspan=5 style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|MPs %/
votes %|- 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|±|-| |72,588||55.95||0.9||41||41||0||67.21||2.3||1.20|-| |27,290||21.04||3.8||13||13||0||21.31||0.7||1.01|-| |12,612||9.72||2.4||2||3||1||4.92||1.5||0.51|-|style="width: 10px" bgcolor=#E2062C align="center" | |align=left|People's Democratic Union|6,210||4.79||0.8||1||2||1||3.28||1.6||0.68|-| |6,015||4.64||0.6||2||2||0||3.28||0.1||0.71|-|style="width: 10px" bgcolor=#000080 align="center" | |align=left|National Solidarity|2,243||1.73||1.1||0||0||0||0.00||0.0||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|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"||-|colspan=2|Blank ballots|1,136||0.88||0.2||colspan=6 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=11 align=left | Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições|}

Distribution by constituency

|- class="unsortable"!rowspan=2|Constituency!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!rowspan=2|Total
S|- 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:; color:white;"|66.3| 3| 7.4| -| 21.8| -| 1.3| -| 0.9| -| 3|-| style="text-align:left;" | Câmara de Lobos| style="background:; color:white;"|67.8| 5| 15.1| 1| 6.7| -| 3.3| -| 4.4| -| 6|-| style="text-align:left;" | Funchal| style="background:; 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:; color:white;"|56.1| 3| 31.3| 2| 5.3| -| 2.6| -| 2.3| -| 5|-| style="text-align:left;" | Ponta do Sol| style="background:; color:white;"|59.0| 2| 28.0| -| 8.5| -| 2.0| -| 0.5| -| 2|-| style="text-align:left;" | Porto Moniz| style="background:; color:white;"|57.8| 1| 33.6| 1| 5.4| -| 0.6| -| 0.7| -| 2|-| style="text-align:left;" | Porto Santo| style="background:; color:white;"|50.2| 1| 43.1| 1| 2.6| -| 1.4| -| 0.3| -| 2|-| style="text-align:left;" | Ribeira Brava| style="background:; color:white;"|69.2| 3| 13.7| -| 10.1| -| 0.8| -| 1.2| -| 3|-| style="text-align:left;" | Santa Cruz| style="background:; color:white;"|52.5| 4| 26.4| 2| 9.8| -| 4.1| -| 3.4| -| 6|-| style="text-align:left;" | Santana| style="background:; color:white;"|63.6| 2| 22.7| -| 7.4| -| 2.0| -| 0.9| -| 2|-| style="text-align:left;" | São Vicente| style="background:; 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:; 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|}

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See also

Notes and References

  1. http://www.cne.pt/sites/default/files/dl/legis_eparam_2012.pdf ESTATUTO POLÍTICO-ADMINISTRATIVO da REGIÃO AUTÓNOMA da MADEIRA