The abstention rate in Madeira’s regional regions reached 46.66% this Sunday, resuming the upward trend observed in all elections to the Legislative Assembly of the autonomous region since 1984.
According to the preliminary results of the elections released by the General Secretariat of the Ministry of the Interior, after all parishes were determined, the abstention rate was 46.66%, when 253,865 voters were registered (135,413 voters).
The record number of abstentions since 1976, the year of the first elections to the Legislative Assembly of Madeira, was recorded in 2015, when 50.42% of the 256,755 registered voters did not vote.
43 years ago, in the first vote for the Parliament of Madeira, 25.21% of the 143,403 voters did not go to the polls, but four years later, in 1980, the lowest abstention rate was achieved in Madeira’s regional regions: 19, 15% (153,439 voters were registered).
In 1984 the upward trend started: the percentage reached 28.57% (169,419 registered voters) and in 1988 it reached 32.35% (185,340 registered voters).
Over the next twenty years, the numbers continued to rise: 33.47% in 1992 (196,589 registered voters), 34.74% in 1996 (208,486 registered voters), 38.09% in 2000 (209,541 registered voters) and 39.53% in 2004 (227,774 registered voters).
In 2007, abstention remained at 39.25% (231,606 registered voters), rising again in 2011 to 42.62% (256,755 registered voters) and then to just over 50% in 2015.
In 2019, the abstention rate was 44.49%, in elections with 257,232 registered voters.
According to preliminary official data, the PSD/CDS-PP coalition won the regional parliamentary elections in Madeira, but failed to obtain an absolute majority of one deputy.
The Social Democrats and Centrists obtained 43.13% of the vote (58,399 votes) and 23 seats in the regional parliament, consisting of a total of 47 deputies.
Four years ago, the PSD elected 21 deputies, losing its first absolute majority since 1976, and formed a coalition government with the CDS-PP (three deputies). The regional parliament also consists of 19 deputies from the PS, three from the JPP and one from the CDU (PCP/PEV).
The second most voted political force tonight was the PS, with 21.30% of the votes and 11 mandates, while four years ago it had obtained 36.59% of the votes and 19 mandates.
The JPP obtained 14,933 votes, representing 11.03%, and five mandates, while in 2019 it had obtained three mandates and 7,830 votes (5.59%).
The fourth most voted political force was Chega, which obtained 8.88% (12,028 votes) the second time it stood for votes in the regional elections in Madeira. The party debuts in the regional hemisphere with four delegates.
In fifth place was the CDU (PCP/PEV), with 2.72% and 3,677 votes, allowing it to retain the only deputy in the regional parliament.
The list of results includes three parties that managed to elect one deputy each: the Liberal Initiative, which will also make its debut in the hemisphere, after obtaining 3,555 votes (2.63%), the PAN, with 3,046 votes (2.25%), and the Left Bloc, with 3,036 votes (2.24%).
For both the PAN and the Left Bloc, this is a return to the Regional Legislative Assembly.
Source: DN
