2016 Azorean regional election

The 2016 Azorean regional election () was on October 16 of the same year. In this election, the incumbent president of the regional government, led by the Socialist Vasco Cordeiro, was seeking a second term.

In this election, the PS maintained their absolute majority but lost one seat and lost 2.6 percent of the vote compared to 2012. The Social Democrats also lost one seat although their vote share fall was lower than the Socialists. The big winner was the People's Party which gain 7 percent of the vote and gained one seat compared to 2012. The Left Bloc also won one more seat compared to last time while the CDU maintained their only seat but at the same time, gained in share of the vote and was the most voted party in the island of Flores. The PPM also maintained their seat in the island of Corvo.

Turnout in this election was the lowest ever, as only 40.84 percent of the electorate cast a ballot.

Background Leadership changes and challenges Social Democratic Party Following the defeat of the PSD in the 2012 regional election, then party leader Berta Cabral resigned and a leadership ballot was called for 18 December 2012. Only one candidate was on the ballot: Duarte Freitas. Freitas was easily elected leader with almost 93 percent of the votes:

Electoral system The Azores regional parliament elects 57 members through a proportional system in which the 9 islands elect a number of MPs proportional to the number of registered voters. MPs are allocated by using the D'Hondt method. 5 members are also elected for a Compensation constituency.

Constituency Total MPs Registeredvoters Corvo 2 334 Faial 4 13,019 Flores 3 3,187 Graciosa 3 4,411 Pico 4 13,496 Santa Maria 3 5,499 São Jorge 3 8 648 São Miguel 20 127,206 Terceira 10 52,409 Compensation 5 Total 57 228,259

Current parties in parliament The parties that up to date of election were represented in the Assembly and their leaders, are:

Party Leader MPs Socialist Party (PS)Vasco Cordeiro31 Social Democratic Party (PPD/PSD)Duarte Freitas20 People's Party (CDS–PP)Artur Lima 3 Unitary Democratic Coalition (PCP–PEV)Aníbal Pires 1 Left Bloc (BE)Zuraida Soares 1 People's Monarchist Party (PPM) Paulo Estêvâo 1

Opinion Polling Poll results are listed in the table below in reverse chronological order, showing the most recent first. The highest percentage figure in each polling survey is displayed in bold, and the background shaded in the leading party's colour. In the instance that there is a tie, then no figure is shaded but both are displayed in bold. The lead column on the right shows the percentage-point difference between the two parties with the highest figures. Poll results use the date the survey's fieldwork was done, as opposed to the date of publication.

Polling firm/Link Fieldwork date Samplesize Lead 2016 regional elections 16 Oct 2016 40.8 46.4 30.9 7.2 3.7 2.6 9.2 15.5 UCP-CESOP 16 Oct 2016 6,905 38–43 50–55 27–31 5–7 2–4 1–3 1–4 23–24 Norma Açores 20–28 Sep 2016 900 65.4 66.9 20.7 3.2 1.7 1.2 6.3 46.2 2015 legislative election 4 Oct 2015 41.2 40.4 36.1 3.9 7.8 2.5 9.3 4.3 Norma Açores 15–21 Apr 2015 503 ? 33.2 27.9 1.1 1.3 1.3 6.1 5.3 2014 EP elections 25 May 2014 19.7 41.329.6 3.9 3.7 21.5 11.7 2013 local elections 29 Sep 2013 54.0 46.9 41.9 2.6 1.6 1.7 5.3 5.0 2012 regional elections 14 Oct 2012 47.9 49.0 33.0 5.6 2.3 1.9 8.2 16.0

Voter turnout The table below shows voter turnout throughout election day.

Turnout Time 11:00 16:00 19:00 2012 2016 ± 2012 2016 ± 2012 2016 ± Total 10.34% 7.47% 2.96 pp 34.37% 29.29% 5.08 pp 47.86% 40.85% 7.01 pp Sources

Results

| colspan=10| |- ! rowspan="2" colspan=2 style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=left|Parties ! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|Votes ! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|% ! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|±pp swing ! colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|MPs |- style="background-color:#E9E9E9" ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;"|2012 ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;"|2016 ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|± ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|% ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|±

|43,274||46.43||2.6||31||30||1||52.63||1.8

|28,793||30.90||2.1||20||19||1||33.33||1.8

|6,674||7.16||1.6||3||4||1||7.02||1.8

|3,414||3.66||1.4||1||2||1||3.51||1.8

|2,437||2.61||0.7||1||1||0||1.75||0.0

|1,342||1.44||0.8||0||0||0||0.00||0.0

|866||0.93||0.8||1||1||0||1.75||0.0

|451||0.48||||||0||||0.00||

|343||0.37||0.4||0||0||0||0.00||0.0

|299||0.32||0.0||0||0||0||0.00||0.0 |- | style="width:10px; background:#00CD8C; text-align:center;"| | style="text-align:left;" |FREE/Time to move Forward |227||0.24||||||0||||0.00||

|83||0.09||||||0||||0.00||

|67||0.07||||||0||||0.00|| |- |colspan=2 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total valid |width="50" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|88,270 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|94.69 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|0.8 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|57 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|57 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|0 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|0.0 |- |colspan=2|Blank ballots |2,697||2.90||0.3||colspan=5 rowspan=4| |- |colspan=2|Invalid ballots |2,227||2.40||1.1 |- |colspan=2 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total |width="50" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|93,194 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| |- |colspan=2|Registered voters/turnout ||228,162||40.85||7.0 |- | colspan=10 align=left|Portuguese Communist Party (1 MPs) and "The Greens" (0 MPs) ran in coalition. |- | colspan=10 align=left | Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições

Distribution by constituency

|colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"| | 0.4

| 1.6

| 32.0 | 1 | 2 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Faial | 32.6 | 2 | style="background:; color:white;"|41.2 | 2 | 6.5

| 6.4

| 4.6

| 1.5

| 4 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Flores | 23.7 | 1 | 21.0 | 1 | 17.0

| 1.3

| style="background:red; color:white;"|32.5 | 1 |colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"| | 3 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Graciosa | style="background:; color:white;"|54.6 | 2 | 36.7 | 1 | 1.7

| 1.2

| 0.5

| 3 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Pico | style="background:; color:white;"|39.5 | 2 | 37.8 | 2 | 14.1

| 1.1

| 1.5

| 0.4

| 4 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Santa Maria | style="background:; color:white;"|50.3 | 2 | 29.1 | 1 | 1.8

| 4.4

| 8.3

| 0.6

| 3 |- | style="text-align:left;" | São Jorge | style="background:; color:white;"|39.5 | 1 | 21.4 | 1 | 26.3 | 1 | 2.8

| 3.0

| 0.7

| 3 |- | style="text-align:left;" | São Miguel | style="background:; color:white;"|49.2 | 12 | 30.6 | 7 | 3.2

| 4.2 | 1 | 1.5

| 1.2

| 20 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Terceira | style="background:; color:white;"|49.0 | 6 | 28.8 | 3 | 10.1 | 1 | 3.1

| 1.5

| 0.3

| 10 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Compensation | style="color:inherit;background:#AAAAAA"| | 1 | style="color:inherit;background:#AAAAAA"| | 1 | style="color:inherit;background:#AAAAAA"| | 2 | style="color:inherit;background:#AAAAAA"| | 1 | style="color:inherit;background:#AAAAAA"|

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| 5 |- class="unsortable" style="background:#E9E9E9" | style="text-align:left;" | Total | style="background:; color:white;"|46.4 | 30 | 30.9 | 19 | 7.2 | 4 | 3.7 | 2 | 2.6 | 1 | 0.9 | 1 | 57 |- | colspan=14 style="text-align:left;" | Source: Azores Government

References

External links Comissão Nacional de Eleições Legislative Assembly of Azores - Official website

2016 Azorean regional election

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