Portuguese Local Elections October 10

[Bono]

That's right, more elections in Portugal, which yours trulywill try to allow you to follow.
There is a lot of disactisfaction with the overnment, for having pulled a Bush Father('no new taxes').
It is expected that some protest vote will follow, but the whole elections themselves will be somewhat shadoweed by the incoming presidential elections in January.
The local system is a bit complicated, but I will do my best to explain it:
The lowest entity is a freguesia, which can be roughly transalted as a 'civil parish'. This is a bit useless subdivision, and I in fact wonder what's the point in it even existing. There is an elected 'Parish Assembly, which selects by secret ballot an executive body, a 'Parish Junta'.
The division above the 'civil parish' is the concelho, or local council. This is the main entity, and has the power to levy taxes on property, some communications, cars, swerage, and possibly some other things I'm not aware off. This has two government bodies, the 'municipal assembly' which oversees the work of the executive body, but in reality mostly rubberstamps everything, and the main body, the Câmara Municipal, or 'municipal house(?)'. This is a somewhat unique body, in that it is a mixture of an executive and a legislative body: ie, it is elected by the voters, and has a mixed party composition, and votes n the executive initiatives, but has at the same time executive functions.In practice, the executive functions are only exerted by the members, called vereadores that belong to the party or parties in control of the body.
Thus, a voter cats three ballots, one for parish assembly, one for municipal assembly, and one for municipal house'.

I'll post the current distribution of municipal houses(the really important body) later, but I can say the 4 most important cities are all PSD.

[Bono]

Ok, here are the current distributions(not all today likely):

Pink is PS
Orange is PSD
Red is Communist
Gold is PSD/PP Coalition
That weird colour Lisbon is in means a PSD/PPM(small monarchist party) coalition
Brown means Left Block
White means Independents
Dark Blue means PP
Puke Green is MPT. It only appears in Guarda. It is a small ecologist party.

Faro District



Beja District



Évora District


Portalegre District


Setúbal District


Lisbon District




Santarém District




Leiria District


Castelo Branco District



Coimbra District



Aveiro District



Viseu District



Guarda District


Porto District


Braga District


Viana do Castelo District


Vila Real District


Bragança District


Madeira


Azores Map 1


Azores Map 2

[WMS]

Nice maps, but sometime the color differences are hard to follow. Gold, er, orange, er, pink, eh, some damn color here, etc...
Thanks for doing it anyway.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Nice to see the commies doing so well

[Bono]

Polls for mayor of Lisbon give the PSD 14,2% of advantage over the PS.
No surprises, given that the PS candidate is an invory tower intellectual and one of the least popular figures on the left.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

So you say that voters don't like ivory-tower intellectuals?

[Bono]

So you say that voters don't like ivory-tower intellectuals?

YEs I do.

[Bono]

Please , can you say whether the PP/CDS  has a distinct political identity nowadays.  Oh, interestlingly their web page seems to work after at least a year or two.  They have joined EPP group. So, are they moving towards the centre.

They've alwasy had a distinc political identity, even when they were the taxi party in the early 90s.
And this new leader is a bit more christian democratic than the last one, who was more to the right on economics.

[Bono]

Well, it's today. Expect results of the main cities tonight.

[Bono]

Turnout was 21% by noon.

[Bono]

48% by 4.

[Bono]

We keep Lisbon, Porto and Sintra, but lose Faro(it0s not certain though).

[Bono]

www.autarquicas.mj.pt

Results there.

[Bono]

Lisbon Results:
http://www.autarquicas.mj.pt/CPCM/D11/C06.html

PSD  42,43% 8
PS  26,56% 5
PCP  11,42% 2
BE  7,91% 1
PP  5,92% 1

Porto Results
http://www.autarquicas.mj.pt/CPCM/D13/C12.html

PSD-PP  46,17% 7
PS  36,14% 5
PCP  8,96% 1
BE  4,22 % 0

More and maps later.