1861 Portuguese legislative election

Parliamentary elections were held in Portugal on 22 April 1861.

1861 Portuguese legislative election

22 April 1861

177 seats to the Chamber of Deputies
89 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party
 
Leader 1st Duke of Loulé Fontes Pereira de Melo
Party Historic Regenerator
Leader since 1852 1856
Last election 15 seats 162 seats
Seats won 137 40
Seats after 122 122
Percentage 78% 22%
Swing 70% 69%

Prime Minister before election

1st Duke of Loulé
Historic

Prime Minister-elect

1st Duke of Loulé
Historic

Results

Party Votes % Seats
Historic Party78137
Regenerator Party2240
Total194,818177
Registered voters/turnout302,16964.5
Source: ISCSP, Nohlen & Stöver[1]
gollark: Which is arguably bad if you're *using* the currency, but means that a shared one is likely to cause politicking/not be adopted anyway.
gollark: A big issue with this is that in these days of modern economic whatever, control of a currency also allows financial hax which governments want to be able to do.
gollark: (And health services still have to prioritize treatments based on cost; they cannot give everyone arbitrarily expensive treatments)
gollark: Government incentives aren't always aligned with those of the people.
gollark: Post-scarcity would be if you could trivially provide it for free.

References

  1. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1543 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7


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