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Constituent Assembly elections were carried out in Portugal on 25 April 1975, exactly one year after the Carnation Revolution. The election elected all 250 members of the Portuguese Constituent Assembly.

It was the first free election held in Portugal since 1925, and only the seventh free election in all of Portuguese history. Turnout was a record 91.66 percent, which remains (as of 2022) the highest ever in any Portuguese democratic elections (General, Regional, Local or European).

The main aim of the election was the election of a Constituent Assembly, in order to write a new constitution to replace the Estado Novo regime's authoritarian Constitution of 1933 and so this freely-elected parliament had a single-year mandate and no government was based on parliamentary support; the country continued to be governed by a military-civilian provisional administration during the deliberations of the Constituent Assembly.

With few or no opinion polls during the campaign, the real trend of the electorate was unknown, but incumbent Prime Minister Vasco Gonçalves was confident in a victory of the most leftwing forces in Portugal, forecasting that the Portuguese Democratic Movement (MDP/CDE) would win the election, followed by the Communists (PCP) and then the Socialist Party (PS).[1] In the end, this forecast was totally wrong.

The election was won by the Socialist Party with almost 38% of the votes and 116 seats. The Social Democratic Party (then known as the Democratic People's Party, PPD) was the second-most voted party, 26.4% and 81 seats, defending a project that it would soon abandon, social democratic centrism, the Portuguese "Social-Democracy", and becoming the major right-wing party in the country a few years after. The size of the results of the PPD were a big surprise, taking into account that they won double the votes of the Communists.[1]

The new parliament had a large majority of parties defending socialist or "democratic socialist" ideas and the Constitution, approved one year after, reflected such influence. The Portuguese Communist Party achieved a surprisingly low total, just 12%, considering the overwhelming support in the south of the country and the radical turn to the left of the revolutionary process after the failed fascist coup, one month before.

With the PPD's shift away from the left and towards the right coming after this election, the only right-of-centre party elected was the CDS, which received 7.6 percent of the vote and 16 seats. The other big surprise were the very weak results of MDP/CDE, which polled just 4% and elected 5 member to the Assembly.[1]

The results map showed a strong North-South division, with the more rightwing forces, PPD and CDS, dominating the North and Center regions, mainly in rural areas, and the PCP dominating the South, especially the Alentejo region. The PS dominated the big urban areas around Lisbon, Porto, Coimbra and Setúbal.[2]

Background

Шаблон:Main article The previous parliamentary elections were held on October 28, 1973, still under the authoritarian rule of the Estado Novo (New State), founded by António de Oliveira Salazar who died in 1970. The People's National Action (ANP), the single party of the then President of the Council of Ministers, Marcelo Caetano, had won the all 150 deputies of the National Assembly in the 1973 election, with a participation rate of 66.5% of registered. The election was boycotted by Opposition forces due to complaints about democratic legitimacy and oppression.

1974 revolution

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Crowd celebrating the revolution in an armoured car.

On April 25, 1974, the Carnation Revolution, initiated by the captains of the Armed Forces Movement (MFA), ended the authoritarian regime established in 1932 by António de Oliveira Salazar. After the revolutionary forces proclaimed victory, the National Salvation Junta, presided by General António de Spínola, took over the position of Head of State and Government.[3]

With political parties once again legal, the Socialist Party (PS) leader, Mário Soares, and the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) Secretary General, Álvaro Cunhal, returned to Portugal less than a week later. In addition, the members of the "liberal wing" of the ANP, favorable to a democratization of the "Estado Novo" before its fall, founded the Democratic People's Party (PPD) which claimed to be social democratic.[4]

At the end of three weeks, Spínola took the oath as President of the Republic, and nominated Adelino da Palma Carlos Prime Minister as the head of the 1st provisional government in which civil and military members plus independent, socialists, social democrats and communists also took part.

As early as July 18, Vasco Gonçalves, a military man seen as very close to the Communist Party, replaced Palma Carlos as head of the government. After this, the first party that didn't claim to be from the left or the center-left appeared, the Democratic and Social Center (CDS), which claimed to be an advocate of Christian democracy and liberalism.

Barely two and a half months later, after failing to carry out a counter-revolution, Spínola resigned as President of the Republic and was replaced by General Francisco da Costa Gomes, his deputy in the National Salvation Junta. On March 19, 1975, President Costa Gomes officially called an election to elect members to write a new Constitution.[5]

Electoral system

The electoral system adopted, set by the electoral law approved on November 15, 1974,[6] establishes the election of members of parliament by proportional representation according to the D'Hondt method, known to benefit the parties that come first.

The law fixes the number of one deputy per 25,000 inhabitants and one more per fraction of 12,500. Deputies were elected in twenty-three constituencies, namely the eighteen metropolitan districts, Horta, Ponta Delgada, Angra do Heroísmo, Funchal, Mozambique, Macau, and the rest of the world.

In application of these provisions, 250 seats were to be filled.

For these elections, the MPs distributed by districts were the following:[7]

District Number of MPs Map
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Porto 36
Setúbal 16
Braga 15
Aveiro 14
Santarém 13
Coimbra 12
Leiria 11
Viseu 10
Faro 9
Castelo Branco 7
Beja, Funchal, Guarda, Viana do Castelo and Vila Real 6
Évora 5
Bragança and Portalegre 4
Ponta Delgada 3
Angra do Heroísmo 2
Emigration, Horta, Macau and Mozambique 1

Parties

The table below lists the major parties that contested the elections:

Name Ideology Political position Leader
style="background:Шаблон:Party color;"| PS Socialist Party
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Social democracy Centre-left Mário Soares
style="background:Шаблон:Party color;"| PPD Democratic People's Party
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Шаблон:Nowrap Centre Francisco Sá Carneiro
PCP Portuguese Communist Party
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Communism Far-left Álvaro Cunhal
style="background:Шаблон:Party color;"| CDS Democratic and Social Center
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Christian democracy Шаблон:Nowrap Diogo Freitas do Amaral
style="background:Шаблон:Party color;"| MDP/CDE Portuguese Democratic Movement
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Left-wing nationalism
Democratic socialism
Left-wing Francisco Pereira de Moura
UDP Popular Democratic Union
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Marxism
Socialism
Left-wing João Pulido Valente
style="background:Шаблон:Party color;"| ADIM Association for the Defense of Macau Interests
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Conservatism
Macau interests
Шаблон:Nowrap Diamantino Ferreira

Campaign period

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Party slogans

Party or alliance Original slogan English translation Refs
width="1" bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color"| PS « A verdadeira escolha » "The real choice" [8]
bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color"| PPD « Tu decides votando » "You decide by voting" [9]
bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color"| PCP « Dá mais força à Liberdade » "Empower Freedom" [10]
bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color"| CDS « O voto certo » "The right vote" [11]
MDP « O voto do povo » "The people's vote" [12]
UDP « Em frente com a UDP » "Moving forward with UDP" [13]

Candidates' debates

On the election night broadcast on RTP1, a debate took place, moderated by Joaquim Letria, on the electoral results revealed so far, with the participation of the leaders of the four main parties at the time: Mário Soares (Socialist Party), Joaquim Magalhães Mota replacing Francisco Sá Carneiro (Social Democratic Party), Álvaro Cunhal (Portuguese Communist Party), and Francisco Pereira de Moura (MDP/CDE). The questions to the guests were asked by a panel of commentators made up of journalists Manuel Beça Múrias, Dinis Abreu, José Júdice, Castro Mendes and José Carlos Vasconcelos.

1975 Portuguese Constituent Assembly election
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PS PPD PCP MDP/CDE Refs
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26 Apr RTP1 Joaquim Letria Шаблон:Small Шаблон:SmallШаблон:Efn Шаблон:Small Шаблон:Small [14]

Opinion polling

Date Released Polling Firm PS PPD PCP CDS MDP Others Lead
25 Apr 1975 Election Results Шаблон:Party shading/PS| 37.9 26.4 12.5 7.6 4.1 11.5 style="background:Шаблон:Party color; color:white;"|11.5
Mar 1975 IPOPE 47.0 21.0 17.0 2.0 4.0 9.0 26.0
Dec 1974 CUF 35.1 27.0 10.8 2.7 24.4 8.1

Results

Summary of the 25 April 1975 Constituent Assembly elections
results
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Party Votes % Seats
style="background:Шаблон:Party color;" | Socialist Party 2,162,972 37.87 116
style="background:Шаблон:Party color;" | Democratic People's Party 1,507,282 26.39 81
style="background:Шаблон:Party color;" | Portuguese Communist Party 711,935 12.46 30
style="background:Шаблон:Party color;" | Democratic and Social Centre 434,879 7.61 16
Portuguese Democratic Movement 236,318 4.14 5
People's Socialist Front 66,307 1.16 0
Movement of Socialist Left 58,248 1.02 0
People's Democratic Union 44,877 0.79 1
Communist Electoral Front (Marxist–Leninist) 33,185 0.58 0
style="background:Шаблон:Party color;" | People's Monarchist Party 32,526 0.57 0
Popular Unity Party 13,138 0.23 0
Internationalist Communist League 10,835 0.19 0
style="background:Шаблон:Party color;" | Association for the Defense of Macau InterestsШаблон:Efn 1,622 0.03 1
style="background:Шаблон:Party color;" | Democratic Centre of MacauШаблон:Efn 1,030 0.02 0
Total 5,315,064 93.05 250
Valid votes 5,315,064 93.05
Invalid/blank votes 396,675 6.95
Total votes cast 5,711,829 100.00
Registered voters/turnout 6,231,372 91.66
Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições

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Distribution by constituency

Шаблон:Election table |- class="unsortable" !rowspan=2|Constituency!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S !rowspan=2|Total
S |- class="unsortable" style="text-align:center;" !colspan=2 | PS !colspan=2 | PPD !colspan=2 | PCP !colspan=2 | CDS !colspan=2 | MDP/CDE !colspan=2 | UDP !colspan=2 | ADIM |- | style="text-align:left;" | Angra do Heroísmo | 23.0 | - | style="background:Шаблон:Party color; color:white;"|62.8 | 2 | 2.4 | - | 6.1 | - | 1.1 | - |colspan="2" rowspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"| |colspan="2" rowspan="14" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"| | 2 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Aveiro | 31.8 | 5 | style="background:Шаблон:Party color; color:white;"|42.9 | 7 | 3.2 | - | 11.1 | 2 | 3.9 | - | 14 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Beja | 35.6 | 3 | 5.3 | - | style="background:red; color:white;"|39.0 | 3 | 2.2 | - | 5.5 | - | 1.4 | - | 6 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Braga | 27.4 | 5 | style="background:Шаблон:Party color; color:white;"|37.7 | 7 | 3.7 | - | 18.0 | 3 | 2.9 | - | - | - | 15 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Bragança | 24.7 | 1 | style="background:Шаблон:Party color; color:white;"|43.0 | 3 | 2.7 | - | 13.5 | - | 3.7 | - | - | - | 4 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Castelo Branco | style="background:Шаблон:Party color; color:white;"|41.5 | 5 | 24.3 | 2 | 5.6 | - | 6.4 | - | 3.9 | - | 0.8 | - | 7 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Coimbra | style="background:Шаблон:Party color; color:white;"|43.2 | 7 | 27.2 | 4 | 5.7 | 1 | 4.6 | - | 4.4 | - | colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"| | 12 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Шаблон:HsÉvora | style="background:Шаблон:Party color; color:white;"|37.9 | 3 | 6.9 | - | 37.1 | 2 | 2.8 | - | 7.8 | - | 0.9 | - | 5 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Faro | style="background:Шаблон:Party color; color:white;"|45.4 | 6 | 13.9 | 1 | 12.3 | 1 | 3.4 | - | 9.5 | 1 | 1.1 | - | 9 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Funchal | 19.6 | 1 | style="background:Шаблон:Party color; color:white;"|61.9 | 5 | 1.7 | - | 10.0 | - | 1.3 | - | colspan="2" rowspan="3" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"| | 6 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Guarda | 28.2 | 2 | style="background:Шаблон:Party color; color:white;"|33.3 | 3 | 2.9 | - | 19.5 | 1 | 3.6 | - | 6 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Horta | 23.0 | - | style="background:Шаблон:Party color; color:white;"|67.6 | 1 | 2.4 | - |colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"| | 3.1 | - | 1 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Leiria | 33.2 | 5 | style="background:Шаблон:Party color; color:white;"|35.6 | 5 | 6.4 | - | 6.8 | 1 | 3.4 | - | 1.1 | - | 11 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Lisbon | style="background:Шаблон:Party color; color:white;"|46.0 | 29 | 15.0 | 9 | 18.9 | 11 | 4.8 | 3 | 4.1 | 2 | 1.7 | 1 | 55 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Macau | colspan="12" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"| | style="background:Шаблон:Party color; color:white;"|56.4 | 1 | 1 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Mozambique | style="background:Шаблон:Party color; color:white;"|41.1 | 1 | colspan="12" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"| | 1 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Ponta Delgada | 30.4 | 1 | style="background:Шаблон:Party color; color:white;"|54.8 | 2 | 1.5 | - | 3.1 | - | 2.7 | - | colspan="4" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"| | 3 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Portalegre | style="background:Шаблон:Party color; color:white;"|52.4 | 3 | 9.9 | - | 17.5 | 1 | 4.0 | - | 4.5 | - | 1.2 | - | colspan="2" rowspan="8" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"| | 4 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Porto | style="background:Шаблон:Party color; color:white;"|42.6 | 18 | 29.4 | 12 | 6.7 | 2 | 8.9 | 3 | 2.6 | 1 | 0.6 | - | 36 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Santarém | style="background:Шаблон:Party color; color:white;"|42.9 | 8 | 18.8 | 3 | 15.1 | 2 | 4.3 | - | 4.1 | - | 1.0 | - | 13 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Setúbal | style="background:Шаблон:Party color; color:white;"|38.2 | 7 | 5.7 | 1 | 37.8 | 7 | 1.6 | - | 6.0 | 1 | 1.3 | - | 16 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Viana do Castelo | 24.5 | 2 | style="background:Шаблон:Party color; color:white;"|36.0 | 3 | 3.8 | - | 14.5 | 1 | 7.1 | - | colspan="2" rowspan="4" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"| | 6 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Vila Real | 27.1 | 2 | style="background:Шаблон:Party color; color:white;"|45.8 | 4 | 2.9 | - | 7.2 | - | 2.3 | - | 6 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Viseu | 21.5 | 2 | style="background:Шаблон:Party color; color:white;"|43.9 | 6 | 2.3 | - | 17.2 | 2 | 4.0 | - | 10 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Шаблон:HsEmigration | 34.4 | - | style="background:Шаблон:Party color; color:white;"|45.6 | 1 | colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"| | 4.6 | - | 11.0 | - | 1 |- |- class="unsortable" style="background:#E9E9E9" | style="text-align:left;" | Total | style="background:Шаблон:Party color; color:white;"|37.9 | 116 | 26.4 | 81 | 12.5 | 30 | 7.6 | 16 | 4.1 | 5 | 0.8 | 1 | 0.0 | 1 | 250 |- | colspan=16 style="text-align:left;" | Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições |}

Maps

Notes

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References

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External links

See also

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