2000 Azorean regional election

In the Azores, there were 52 seats in the Regional Parliament in dispute, the same of the previous election, in 1996. The seats were distributed by the 9 islands of the archipelago proportionally to the population of each island; however, each island is entitled to at least two members of parliament.

For the 2000 election, the Azores regional parliament elected 52 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.

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The political parties, movements and alliances during these elections mirrored many of the parties that appeared in the national legislative and/or European elections of that year, but specifically included the following:

• Left Bloc (BE)
• People's Monarchist Party-Democratic Party of the Atlantic (PPM-PDA), actually two independent parties; the PPM and PDA, ran as a coalition; leaders of each party: Miguel Pignatelli Queirós (PPM) and Joaquim de Aguiar Cabral (PDA)
• People's Party (CDS–PP);
• Socialist Party (PS);
• Social Democratic Party (PSD), leader Alberto Madruga da Costa
• Unitary Democratic Coalition (CDU), is a coalition between the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) Açores and the Greens (PEV){{cite web |title=Acórdão N.º255/09 |publisher=Tribunal Constitucional |url=http://w3.tribunalconstitucional.pt/acordaos/acordaos09/201-300/25509.htm |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120717070220/http://w3.tribunalconstitucional.pt/acordaos/acordaos09/201-300/25509.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 17, 2012 |language=Portuguese |date=20 May 2009 |accessdate=11 October 2009 |location=Lisbon, Portugal |editor=Carlos Pamplona de Oliveira }}

For a second term, the Socialist Party won the regional election in Azores, increasing its share of the vote from 30% to 49%, and re-electing Carlos César to the presidency of the Regional Government. Many of the Social Democrat's mandates were lost, while César and his teram obtained an absolute majority with 30 of the assembly's 52 seats.

The Social Democrats, who had dominated the politics of the islands since the Carnation Revolution lost almost 10% of the vote, and six MPs. The People's Party (CDS), despite raising their share of the vote (by more than 2%), lost one of their representatives, due to the application of the Hondt election model in the nine islands. The People's Monarchist Party, which had not participated in the previous election, ran in coalition with the Democratic Party of the Atlantic, but were unsuccessful in obtaining any representation. The Unitary Democratic Coalition (CDU), led by the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) raised their popular vote by 1%, achieving another deputy (on the island of Faial).

After aligning itself with many of the smaller left-of-centre parties, the People's Democratic Union (UDP), elements of the party merged with the Left Bloc, but did not achieve any representation.

{{election table|title=Summary of the 15 October 2000 Legislative Assembly of the Azores election results}}

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| colspan="10"|{{Parliament diagram|background=#F8F9FA

|p1 = Unitary Democratic Coalition |n1 = 2 | p2= Socialist Party (Portugal) |n2= 30 |p3= Social Democratic Party (Portugal) |n3= 18 |p4= CDS – People's Party |n4= 2}}

|-

! 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"

! align="center"|1996

! align="center"|2000

! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|±

! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|%

! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|±

|-

| {{Party name with colour|Socialist Party (Portugal)|shortname=Socialist}}

|49,438||49.20||{{increase}}3.4||24||30||{{increase}}6||57.69||{{increase}}11.5

|-

| {{Party name with colour|Social Democratic Party (Portugal)|shortname=Social Democratic}}

|32,642||32.48||{{decrease}}8.5||24||18||{{decrease}}6||34.62||{{decrease}}11.5

|-

| {{Party name with colour|CDS – People's Party|shortname=People's}}

|9,605||9.56||{{increase}}2.2||3||2||{{decrease}}1||3.85||{{decrease}}1.9

|-

| {{Party name with colour|Democratic Unity Coalition|shortname=Democratic Unity Coalition}}

|4,856||4.83||{{increase}}1.4||1||2||{{increase}}1||3.85||{{increase}}1.9

|-

| {{Party name with colour|Left Bloc (Portugal)|shortname=Left Bloc}}

|1,387||1.38||{{N/A}}||{{N/A}}||0||{{N/A}}||0.00||{{N/A}}

|-

|style="width: 10px" bgcolor={{party color|People's Monarchist Party (Portugal)}} align="center" |

|align=left|PPM / PDA

|799||0.80||{{N/A}}||{{N/A}}||0||{{N/A}}||0.00||{{N/A}}

|-

|colspan=2 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total valid

|width="50" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|98,727

|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|98.25

|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|{{decrease}}0.6

|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|52

|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|52

|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|{{steady}}0

|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00

|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|{{steady}}0.0

|-

|colspan=2|Blank ballots

|895||0.89||{{increase}}0.3||colspan=5 rowspan=4|

|-

|colspan=2|Invalid ballots

|862||0.86||{{increase}}0.3

|-

|colspan=2 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total

|width="50" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|100,484

|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00

|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|

|-

|colspan=2|Registered voters/turnout

||188,543||53.30||{{decrease}}5.9

|-

| colspan=10 align=left | Source: [http://eleicoes.cne.pt/cne2005/raster/index.cfm?dia=15&mes=10&ano=2000&eleicao=alr Comissão Nacional de Eleições]

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|title=Vote share

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{{bar percent|PS|{{party color|Socialist Party (Portugal)}}|49.20}}

{{bar percent|PSD|{{party color|Social Democratic Party (Portugal)}}|32.48}}

{{bar percent|CDS-PP|{{party color|Democratic and Social Centre – People's Party}}|9.56}}

{{bar percent|CDU|{{party color|Portuguese Communist Party}}|4.83}}

{{bar percent|BE|{{party color|Left Bloc (Portugal)}}|1.83}}

{{bar percent|PPM/PDA|{{party color|People's Monarchist Party (Portugal)}}|0.80}}

{{bar percent|Blank/Invalid|#DDDDDD|1.75}}

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{{bar percent|PS|{{party color|Socialist Party (Portugal)}}|57.69}}

{{bar percent|PSD|{{party color|Social Democratic Party (Portugal)}}|34.62}}

{{bar percent|CDS-PP|{{party color|Democratic and Social Centre – People's Party}}|3.85}}

{{bar percent|CDU|{{party color|Portuguese Communist Party}}|3.85}}

}}

{{election table|title=Results of the 2000 election of the Legislative Assembly
of Azores by constituency|sortable=yes}}

|- class="unsortable"

!rowspan=2|Constituency!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S

!rowspan=2|Total
S

|- class="unsortable" style="text-align:center;"

!colspan=2 | PS

!colspan=2 | PSD

!colspan=2 | CDS-PP

!colspan=2 | CDU

|-

| style="text-align:left;" | Corvo

| style="background:{{party color|Socialist Party (Portugal)}}; color:white;"|32.5

| 1

| 31.8

| 1

| 31.1

| -

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

| 2

|-

| style="text-align:left;" | Faial

| style="background:{{party color|Socialist Party (Portugal)}}; color:white;"|35.4

| 2

| 30.2

| 1

| 3.8

| -

| 27.8

| 1

| 4

|-

| style="text-align:left;" | Flores

| style="background:{{party color|Socialist Party (Portugal)}}; color:white;"|26.9

| 1

| 26.8

| 1

| 21.8

| -

| 21.9

| 1

| 3

|-

| style="text-align:left;" | Graciosa

| style="background:{{party color|Socialist Party (Portugal)}}; color:white;"|51.4

| 2

| 42.0

| 1

| 3.2

| -

| 1.1

| -

| 3

|-

| style="text-align:left;" | Pico

| style="background:{{party color|Socialist Party (Portugal)}}; color:white;"|45.4

| 2

| 44.2

| 2

| 5.7

| -

| 1.9

| -

| 4

|-

| style="text-align:left;" | Santa Maria

| style="background:{{party color|Socialist Party (Portugal)}}; color:white;"|65.7

| 2

| 24.5

| 1

| 5.0

| -

| 1.4

| -

| 3

|-

| style="text-align:left;" | São Jorge

| 34.0

| 2

| style="background:{{party color|Social Democratic Party (Portugal)}}; color:white;"|45.4

| 2

| 15.5

| -

| 1.3

| -

| 4

|-

| style="text-align:left;" | São Miguel

| style="background:{{party color|Socialist Party (Portugal)}}; color:white;"|53.3

| 12

| 30.1

| 6

| 8.7

| 1

| 3.2

| -

| 19

|-

| style="text-align:left;" | Terceira

| style="background:{{party color|Socialist Party (Portugal)}}; color:white;"|49.5

| 6

| 32.2

| 3

| 12.8

| 1

| 2.3

| -

| 10

|- class="unsortable" style="background:#E9E9E9"

| style="text-align:left;" | Total

| style="background:{{party color|Socialist Party (Portugal)}}; color:white;"|49.2

| 30

| 32.4

| 18

| 9.6

| 2

| 4.8

| 2

| 52

|-

| colspan=10 style="text-align:left;" | Source: [http://eleicoes.cne.pt/raster/index.cfm?dia=15&mes=10&ano=2000&eleicao=alr Comissão Nacional de Eleições]

|}

File:Eleições Legislativas Regionais nos Açores de 2000.svg|Map showing island constituencies won by political parties.

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• [http://www.cne.pt/ Comissão Nacional de Eleições]
• [http://www.alra.pt/ Legislative Assembly of Azores - Official website]

• 2000 Madeiran regional election

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