2020 Azorean regional election
A regional election will be held in the Azores, no later than October 2020, to determine the composition of the Legislative Assembly of the Autonomous Region of the Azores. The election will renovate all 57 members of the assembly.
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In this election, the incumbent president of the regional government, led by the Socialist Vasco Cordeiro, is expected to seek a third term, in order to further consolidate the Socialist Party's rule from 1996.
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. Current distribution of MPs by constituency:
| Constituency | Total MPs |
Registered voters |
|---|---|---|
| Corvo | 2 | |
| Faial | 4 | |
| Flores | 3 | |
| Graciosa | 3 | |
| Pico | 4 | |
| Santa Maria | 3 | |
| São Jorge | 3 | |
| São Miguel | 20 | |
| Terceira | 10 | |
| Compensation | 5 | |
| Total | 57 |
Parties
The table below lists parties currently represented in the Legislative Assembly of the Azores.
| Name | Ideology | Leader | 2016 result | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes (%) | Seats | |||||
| PS | Socialist Party Partido Socialista |
Social democracy | Vasco Cordeiro | 46.4% | 30 / 57 | |
| PSD | Social Democratic Party Partido Social-Democrata |
Liberal conservatism | José Manuel Bolieiro | 30.9% | 19 / 57 | |
| CDS-PP | CDS – People's Party Centro Democrático Social – Partido Popular |
Christian Democracy | Artur Lima | 7.2% | 4 / 57 | |
| B.E. | Left Bloc Bloco de Esquerda |
Democratic socialism | António Lima | 3.7% | 2 / 57 | |
| PCP | Portuguese Communist Party Partido Comunista Português |
Communism | João Corvelo | 2.6% [lower-alpha 1] |
1 / 57 | |
| PPM | People's Monarchist Party Partido Popular Monárquico |
Monarchism | Paulo Estêvâo | 0.9% | 1 / 57 | |
Opinion polls
| Polling firm/Link | Fieldwork date | Sample size |
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CDU | O | Lead |
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| 2019 Legislative Election | 6 Oct 2019 | N/A | 36.5 | 40.1 | 30.2 | 4.8 | 8.0 | 2.5 | 14.4 | 9.9 |
| 2019 EP Elections | 26 May 2019 | N/A | 18.7 | 40.8 | 20.7 | 6.5 | 7.5 | 2.5 | 22.0 | 20.1 |
| 2017 Local Elections | 1 Oct 2017 | N/A | 53.5 | 45.0 | 41.7 | 3.2 | 1.5 | 1.9 | 6.7 | 3.3 |
| 2016 Regional Elections | 16 Oct 2016 | N/A | 40.8 | 46.4 30 |
30.9 19 |
7.2 4 |
3.7 2 |
2.6 1 |
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15.5 |
Notes
- The Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) and the Ecologist Party "The Greens" (PEV) contested the 2016 election in a coalition called Unitary Democratic Coalition and won a combined 2.6% of the vote and elected one MP to parliament.
References
- Alteração à Lei Eleitoral da ALRA dos Açores - CNE (in Portuguese), Lisbon, Portugal: Comissão Nacional dos Eleições, archived from the original on 2009-02-19
- Assembleia Legislativa dos Açores - Deputados e Grupos Parlamentares