2000 Madeiran regional election

The Madeira Regional Election (2000) (Portuguese: Eleições Regionais da Madeira, 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 population of each municipality. Alberto João Jardim, of the Social Democratic Party kept his dominance over the regional political panorama, winning the election with an absolute majority of 56%, losing only 1% of the voting and achieving the 7th consecutive absolute majority since the very first election in 1976. The two extra mandates were distributed by the People's Party and the People's Democratic Union.

2000 Madeiran regional election

15 October 2000
61 seats to the Legislative Assembly of Madeira 31 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party   Leader Alberto João Jardim Mota Torres Party PSD PS Leader's seat Funchal Funchal Last election 41 seats, 56.9% 13 seats, 24.8% Seats won 41 13 Seat change 0 0 Popular vote 72,588 27,290 Percentage 56.0% 21.0% Swing 0.9 pp 3.8 pp
The most voted party in each municipality.
President before election Alberto João Jardim PSD President-designate Alberto João Jardim PSD

Voter turnout was lower, compared with 1996, with 61.9% of the electorate casting their ballot on election day.

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:

• Democratic Unity Coalition (CDU), an alliance of the Greens and Portuguese Communist Party (PCP).
• People's Democratic Union (UDP).
• People's Party (CDS-PP)
• National Solidarity Party (PSN)
• Socialist Party (PS), leader José Carlos Pinto Basto da Mota Torres.
• Social Democratic Party (PSD), leader Alberto João Jardim.

Results

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 1%, 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% of the voting. The Unitarian 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.

Summary of votes and seats

 Summary of the 15 October 2000 Legislative Assembly of Madeira elections results

Parties		Votes	%	±pp swing	MPs					MPs %/ votes %
					1996	2000	±	%	±
	Social Democratic	72,588	55.95	0.9	41	41	0	67.21	2.3	1.20
	Socialist	27,290	21.04	3.8	13	13	0	21.31	0.7	1.01
	People's	12,612	9.72	2.4	2	3	1	4.92	1.5	0.51
	People's Democratic Union	6,210	4.79	0.8	1	2	1	3.28	1.6	0.68
	Democratic Unity Coalition	6,015	4.64	0.6	2	2	0	3.28	0.1	0.71
	National Solidarity	2,243	1.73	1.1	0	0	0	0.00	0.0	0.0
Total valid		126,958	97.86	0.3	59	61	2	100.00	0.0	—
Blank ballots		1,136	0.88	0.2
Invalid ballots		1,640	1.26	0.2
Total (turnout 61.91%)		129,734	100.00	3.4
Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições

Vote share PSD   55.95% PS   21.04% CDS-PP   9.72% UDP   4.79% CDU   4.64% PSN   1.73% Blank/Invalid   2.14%

Parliamentary seats PSD   67.21% PS   21.31% CDS-PP   4.92% UDP   3.28% CDU   3.28%

Distribution by constituency

 Results of the 2000 election of the Legislative Assembly
of Madeira by constituency

Constituency	%	S	%	S	%	S	%	S	%	S	Total S
	PSD		PS		CDS-PP		UDP		CDU
Calheta	66.3	3	7.4	-	21.8	-	1.3	-	0.9	-	3
Câmara de Lobos	67.8	5	15.1	1	6.7	-	3.3	-	4.4	-	6
Funchal	50.2	15	19.3	6	10.7	3	7.3	2	7.5	2	28
Machico	56.1	3	31.3	2	5.3	-	2.6	-	2.3	-	5
Ponta do Sol	59.0	2	28.0	-	8.5	-	2.0	-	0.5	-	2
Porto Moniz	57.8	1	33.6	1	5.4	-	0.6	-	0.7	-	2
Porto Santo	50.2	1	43.1	1	2.6	-	1.4	-	0.3	-	2
Ribeira Brava	69.2	3	13.7	-	10.1	-	0.8	-	1.2	-	3
Santa Cruz	52.5	4	26.4	2	9.8	-	4.1	-	3.4	-	6
Santana	63.6	2	22.7	-	7.4	-	2.0	-	0.9	-	2
São Vicente	60.9	2	23.5	-	9.5	-	2.0	-	0.9	-	2
Total	56.0	41	21.0	13	9.7	3	4.8	2	4.6	2	61
Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições

References

External links

• Comissão Nacional de Eleições
• Legislative Assembly of Madeira - Official website

See also

• 2000 Azores regional election