Portuguese General Election

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Final result for the district of Coimbra:

PPD/PSD 40,17%91.123 votos 5 mandates (+1)
PS 29,18%66.197 votos 3 mandates (-1)
CDS-PP 9,87%22.389 votos 1 mandates (nc)
PCP-PEV 6,22%14.112 votos
B.E. 5,75%13.033 votos 0 mandates (-1)

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Final result for the district of Braga:

PPD/PSD 40,09% 194.217 votos 9 mandates (+3)
PS 32,85% 159.158 votos 7 mandates (-2)
CDS-PP 10,39% 50.355 votos 2 mandates (nc)
PCP-PEV 4,89% 23.708 votos 1 mandates (nc)
B.E. 4,22% 20.435 votos 0 mandates (-1)

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Final result for the district of Guarda:

PPD/PSD 46,32% 43.016 votos 3 mandates (+1)
PS 28,31% 26.294 votos 1 mandates (-1)
CDS-PP 11,24% 10.436 votos
PCP-PEV 3,48% 3.232 votos
B.E. 3,34% 3.102 votos

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Final result for my district of Faro:
 
PPD/PSD 37,03%74.491 votos 4 mandates (+1)
PS 22,95%46.174 votos 2 mandates (-1)
CDS-PP 12,71%25.561 votos 1 mandates (nc)
PCP-PEV 8,57%17.233 votos 1 mandates (+1)
B.E. 8,16%16.414 votos  1 mandates (nc)

Since many years the PCP wins a seat in the Algarve. This reduce my pain, but only a little bit.

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Final result for the district of Bragança:
 
PPD/PSD 51,8139.185 votos 2 mandates (nc)
PS 26,28% 19.872 votos 1 mandates (nc)
CDS-PP 11,08% 8.380 votos
PCP-PEV 2,59% 1.962 votos
B.E. 2,30% 1.738 votos

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Final result for the district of Aveiro:
 
PPD/PSD 44,45% 170.857 votos 8 mandates (+1)
PS 25,93% 99.646 votos 5 mandates (-1)
CDS-PP 12,89% 49.523 votos 2 mandates (nc)
B.E. 5,03% 19.338 votos 1 mandates (nc)
PCP-PEV 4,09% 15.704 votos

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Final result for the district of Madeira:
 
PPD/PSD 49,39% 68.649 votos 4 mandates (nc)
PS 14,68% 20.401 votos 1 mandates (nc)
CDS-PP 13,74% 19.101 votos 1 mandates (nc)
B.E. 4% 5.567 votos
PCP-PEV 3,67% 5.096 votos

You see Ron, I'm right that I don't trust the Madeirians.

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Final result for the district of Vila Real:
 
PPD/PSD 51,50% 61.270 votos 3 mandates (nc)
PS 29,09% 34.611 votos 2 mandates (nc)
CDS-PP 8,65% 10.289 votos
PCP-PEV 3,07% 3.649 votos
B.E. 2,32% 2.759 votos

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Final result for the district of Santarém:
 
PPD/PSD 37,72% 89.526 votos 5 mandates (+2)
PS 25,85% 61.343 votos 3 mandates (-1)
CDS-PP 12,30% 29.196 votos 1 mandates (nc)
PCP-PEV 9,02% 21.416 votos 1 mandates (nc)
B.E. 5,79% 13.747 votos 0 mandates (-1)

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Final result for the district of Leiria:
 
PPD/PSD 47% 116.872 votos 6 mandates (+2)
PS 20,71% 51.503 votos 3 mandates (-1)
CDS-PP 12,80% 31.819 votos 1 mandates (nc)
B.E. 5,37% 13.351 votos 0 mandates (-1)
PCP-PEV 4,97% 12.349 votos

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Final result for the district of the Açores:
 
PPD/PSD 47,36%42.784 votos 3 mandates (+1)
PS 25,67%23.195 votos 2 mandates (-1)
CDS-PP 12,11%10.944 votos
B.E. 4,39%3.966 votos
PCP-PEV 2,53%2.287 votos 

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In Madeira, as it's a safe place for PSD, many people go only to vote for another parties. In Açores, PS situation is bad. They hold regional government.

The Açores aren't so save for the PS. This islands are socially very conservative and in the early years after 1974 it was a save place for the PSD and CDS. Terrible is in this election that in the left places like Lisboa, Setúbal or Porto the PSD doing very well. The CDS got 2 mandates in Setúbal. This is like Vermont votes for Bush

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Final result for the district of Porto:
 
PPD/PSD 39,14% 388.650 votos 17 mandates (+5)
PS 32,03% 318.100 votos 14 mandates (-4)
CDS-PP 10% 99.338 votos 4 mandates (nc)
PCP-PEV 6,23% 61.819 votos 2 mandates (nc)
B.E. 5,13% 50.985 votos  2 mandates (-1)

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The only thing it's good, is that the fascists of the PNR have less than 0,4%. In Austria they would have 20%

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I don't wait for the final result of Lisboa and Setúbal. I will go to bed. Good night to all and good night to Portugal.

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Anybody have ideas as to why São João de Brito and Alvalade are so strongly right-wing? Judging from Google Streetview, ugly high-rise dilapidated apartment blocks would seem to make this a PS stronghold, yet it is strongly PSD.

In Alvalade and São João de Brito live no worker. There are many tall buildings there, but mostly there are very big apartments for High staff, lawyers, doctors, senior officials etc. In short, most who live there have money.

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The elections website says 38.63% for the PSD and 105 seats. So, it looks they don't have an absolute majority ?

And why did BE collapse that much ? It has only half of its 2009 seats.

The PSD is the winner and together with the CDS they will have a majority. The Portuguese election system is good for the biggest Party. In one election it is goo for the PSD and in the other it is good for the PS.

The B.E. have nearly the same result than 2005. They are on a normal Level again. 2009 there gave many Protest-voters who vote for them, but in this election they lose all of them.

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Not that is is very important, but now we have the result for the Portuguese living in Europe

PS 40,16% 7.204 votos 1 (nc)
PPD/PSD 29,61% 5.311 votos 1 (nc)
CDS-PP 5,54% 993 votos
PCP-PEV 4,48% 803 votos
B.E. 3,36% 602 votos
INVALID 12,05% 2.161 votos

Now we only wait for the result the rest of the world, but since it looks as if nothing changes.

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Hans, you are in this constituency right ?

Yeah, that is my constituency

Now we have the last result:

Rest of the World

PPD/PSD 55,05% 8.323 votos 2 mandates (nc)
PS 17,95% 2.714 votos 
CDS-PP 4,07% 615 votos
B.E. 1,09% 165 votos
PCP-PEV 0,84% 127 votos
INVALID 16,77% .536 votos


The Final Result:

PPD/PSD 38,65% 2.159.742 votos 108 mandates (+27)
PS 28,06% 1.568.168 votos 74 mandates (-23)
CDS-PP 11,70% 653.987 votos 24 mandates (+3)

PCP-PEV 7,91% 441.852 votos 16 mandates (+1)
B.E. 5,17% 288.973 votos 8 mandates (-8)
PCTP/MRPP 1,12% 62.683 votos

PAN 1,04% 57.849 votos
MPT 0,41% 22.690 votos
MEP 0,39% 21.936 votos

PNR 0,32% 17.742 votos
PTP 0,30% 16.811 votos
PPM 0,27% 15.081 votos

PND 0,21% 11.776 votos
PPV 0,15% 8.205 votos
POUS 0,08% 4.604 votos 

PDA 0,08% 4.532 votos 
P.H. 0,06% 3.590 votos
 
BLANK BALLOT 2,66% 148.378 votos
INVALID 1,43% 79.995 votos

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Where are the rest of the world voters from primarily? Brazil and the other former colonies? They seem to be a rather right wing lot.

They come mainly from the USA, Canada, South Africa and Brazil. The worst of then are the Portuguese from South Africa. They are all fascists.

Brazil:
PPD/PSD 55,07% 4.369 votos
PS 18,16% 1.441 votos
CDS-PP 2,48% 197 votos

Canada:
PPD/PSD 53,95% 1.141 votos
PS 24,59% 520 votos
CDS-PP 5,25% 111 votos
B.E. 1,37% 29 votos
PCP-PEV 1,28% 27 votos

USA:
PPD/PSD 56,80% 940 votos
PS 18,37% 304 votos
CDS-PP 6,53% 108 votos
B.E. 1,39% 23 votos
PCP-PEV 0,60% 10 votos

Rest of America and Africa (mainly South Africa)
PPD/PSD 64,24% 1.317 votos
PS 12,34% 253 votos
CDS-PP 5,85% 120 votos
PCP-PEV 1,07% 22 votos
B.E. 0,93% 19 votos

The turnout of the Portuguese in foreign countries is very low.

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Are the Portuguese in the rest of Europe mostly migrant workers as in Britain, or?

Correct. Not all, but in France, Switzerland, Germany and Luxembourg is the majority of the Portuguese worker. Outside Europe there are many from small business.

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I suspect they fled Angola and Mozambique. If they are largely people who opted not to return to Portugal in 1974 and went there instead it would explain why they are so far right wing.

^^^^ this

The most of the Portuguese had a good relation to the native population in Angola and Mozambique and return to Portugal after the independence of the colonies. But the right-wing people go to South Africa, not all were fascists, but many. The South African government made ​​all the whites in Angola and Mozambique, the offer to go to South Africa. Some did, but most do not.