2023 Madeiran regional election
A regional election will be held in Madeira no later than October 2023, to determine the composition of the Legislative Assembly of the Autonomous Region of Madeira. The election will renovate all 47 members of the Madeira Assembly who will then elect the President of the Autonomous Region.
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The current president, Miguel Albuquerque from the Social Democratic Party, is currently leading a coalition government between the Social Democrats and the CDS – People's Party, and will defend the dominance of the Social Democratic Party in the islands since 1976.
Electoral system
The current 47 members of the Madeiran regional parliament are elected in a single constituency by proportional representation under the D'Hondt method, coinciding with the territory of the Region.[1]
Parties
Current composition
The table below lists parties represented in the Legislative Assembly of Madeira before the election.
Name | Ideology | Leader | 2019 result | |||
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Votes (%) | Seats | |||||
PSD | Social Democratic Party Partido Social Democrata |
Liberal conservatism | Miguel Albuquerque | 39.4% | 21 / 47 | |
PS | Socialist Party Partido Socialista |
Social democracy | Emanuel Câmara[lower-alpha 1] Paulo Cafôfo |
35.8% | 19 / 47 | |
CDS-PP | CDS – People's Party Centro Democrático Social – Partido Popular |
Conservatism | Rui Barreto | 5.8% | 3 / 47 | |
JPP | Together for the People Juntos pelo Povo |
Centrism | Élvio Sousa | 5.5% | 3 / 47 | |
PCP | Portuguese Communist Party Partido Comunista Português |
Communism | Edgar Silva | 1.8% [lower-alpha 2] |
1 / 47 |
Opinion polls
Polling firm/Link | Fieldwork date | Sample size | Turnout | ![]() |
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JPP | CDU | ![]() |
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Aximage | 5–8 Jun 2020 | 415 | ? | 42.2 | 27.5 | 2.3 | N/A | 2.1 | 2.1 | 23.8 | 14.7 | ||||
2019 Legislative Election | 6 Oct 2019 | N/A | 50.3 | 37.2 | 33.4 | 6.1 | 5.5 | 2.1 | 5.2 | 10.6 | 3.8 | ||||
2019 Regional Election | 22 Sep 2019 | N/A | 55.5 | 39.4 21 |
35.8 19 |
5.8 3 |
5.5 3 |
1.8 1 |
1.7 0 |
10.0 0 |
3.6 | ||||
See also
Notes
- The leader of the PS-Madeira is Emanuel Câmara, but Paulo Cafôfo is the PS candidate for the Presidency of the Madeira Government.
- The Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) and the Ecologist Party "The Greens" (PEV) contested the 2019 election jointly as the Unitary Democratic Coalition, and won a combined 1.8% of the vote and elected 1 MP to parliament.