2004 Madeiran regional election

A regional election was held in Madeira on 17 October 2004, to determine the composition of the Legislative Assembly of the Autonomous Region of Madeira. All 68 members of the regional parliament were up for an election, an increase of 6 compared with 2000.

2004 Madeiran regional election

17 October 2004

68 seats to the Legislative Assembly of Madeira
34 seats needed for a majority
Turnout60.5% Decrease 1.4 pp
  First party Second party
 
Alberto João Jardim (cropped).jpg
PS
Leader Alberto João Jardim Jacinto Serrão de Freitas
Party PSD PS
Last election 41 seats, 56.0% 13 seats, 21.0%
Seats won 44 19
Seat change Increase 3 Increase 6
Popular vote 73,973 37,751
Percentage 53.7% 27.4%
Swing Decrease 2.2 pp Increase 6.4 pp

The most voted party in each municipality.

President before election

Alberto João Jardim
PSD

President-designate

Alberto João Jardim
PSD

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 an 8th consecutive time. The percentage gathered by the Social Democrats decreased by 2%, however, due to the increase of the overall number of MPs, the party gained 3 seats and achieved 44 seats. The People's Party decreased its voting share and its number of MPs, gathering just 2 seats, one of their worst performances.

On the left, the Socialist Party achieved one of their best result until this date, only surpassed by the results in the 2019 elections, by winning more than 27% of the votes and election 19 members to the regional parliament.[1] The Unitary Democratic Coalition, led by the Portuguese Communist Party, was able to hold on to their 2000 voting share and the 2 MPs of the previous election. The Left Bloc elected one MPs in their first run for the Madeira regional parliament and gathered 3.7% of the votes.

Voter turnout was lower, compared with 2000, with 60.5% 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.[2] In this election the number of MPs to be elected rose from 61 in 2000 to 68.

Political parties

A total of 5 political parties presented lists of candidates for the regional elections in Madeira, where 277,774 electors could elect 68 deputies to the Legislative Assembly. The list of parties running was the following:

Results

Summary of votes and seats

Summary of the 17 October 2004 Legislative Assembly of Madeira elections results
Parties Votes % ±pp swing MPs MPs %/
votes %
2000 2004 ± % ±
Social Democratic 73,97353.71Decrease2.24144Increase364.71Decrease2.51.20
Socialist 37,75127.41Increase6.41319Increase627.94Increase6.61.02
People's 9,6917.04Decrease2.732Decrease12.94Decrease2.00.42
Unitary Democratic Coalition 7,5905.51Increase0.922Steady02.94Decrease0.40.53
Left Bloc 5,0353.6611.470.40
Total valid 134,040 97.31 Decrease0.6 61 68 Increase7 100.00 Steady0.0
Blank ballots 1,4251.03Increase0.1
Invalid ballots 2,2691.65Increase0.4
Total 137,734 100.00
Registered voters/turnout 227,77460.47Decrease1.4
Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições
Vote share
PSD
53.71%
PS
27.41%
CDS-PP
7.04%
CDU
5.51%
BE
3.66%
Blank/Invalid
2.68%
Parliamentary seats
PSD
64.71%
PS
27.94%
CDS-PP
2.94%
CDU
2.94%
BE
1.47%

Distribution by constituency

Results of the 2004 election of the Legislative Assembly
of Madeira
by constituency
Constituency%S%S%S%S%S Total
S
PSD PS CDS-PP CDU BE
Calheta 67.7 3 8.1 - 19.4 - 1.6 - 1.0 - 3
Câmara de Lobos 64.1 6 19.4 2 5.8 - 5.2 - 3.1 - 8
Funchal 46.6 15 28.7 9 7.5 2 8.7 2 5.6 1 29
Machico 55.8 4 36.6 2 2.5 - 1.8 - 1.4 - 6
Ponta do Sol 54.7 1 35.2 1 6.0 - 1.0 - 1.6 - 2
Porto Moniz 64.3 2 30.2 - 2.6 - 0.7 - 0.6 - 2
Porto Santo 55.5 1 38.0 1 2.0 - 1.1 - 0.7 - 2
Ribeira Brava 66.9 3 18.7 - 6.4 - 2.5 - 2.5 - 3
Santa Cruz 49.8 5 31.2 3 7.1 - 5.5 - 3.6 - 8
Santana 66.7 3 21.6 - 6.3 - 1.2 - 1.3 - 3
São Vicente 52.3 1 35.8 1 6.0 - 0.8 - 1.5 - 2
Total 53.7 44 27.4 19 7.0 2 5.5 2 3.7 1 68
Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições

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See also

References

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