The 1999 European Parliament election in Portugal was the election of MEP representing Portugal constituency for the 1999–2004 term of the

European Parliament The European Parliament (EP) is one of the legislative bodies of the European Union and one of its seven institutions. Together with the Council of the European Union (known as the Council and informally as the Council of Ministers), it adopts ...

. It was part of the wider 1999 European election. In Portugal the election was held on 13 June. In the runner up for the 1999 general elections, the Socialist Party (PS) won the EU elections by a landslide. The party, headed by its founder and former PR and PM

Mário Soares Mário Alberto Nobre Lopes Soares, GColTE, GCC, GColL (; 7 December 1924 – 7 January 2017) was a Portuguese politician, who served as prime minister of Portugal from 1976 to 1978 and from 1983 to 1985, and subsequently as the 17th presid ...

, scored a convincing victory over the Social Democrats. The PS increased its share of vote more than 8% and won 2 more seats compared with 1994. The Social Democratic Party (PSD) had a bad performance, but was able to hold on to its 9 seats, but, at the same time, the party saw their share of vote drop to 31%, around 3% lower than in 1994. The

Democratic Unity Coalition The Unitary Democratic Coalition ( pt, CDU – Coligação Democrática Unitária, PCP–PEV) is an electoral and political coalition between the Portuguese Communist Party ( pt, Partido Comunista Português or PCP) and the Ecologist Party "The Gr ...

(CDU) performed quite well, although it dropped compared with 1994. The Communist/Green alliance won more than 10% of the votes, a drop of around 1%, and lost one seat but was able to reclaim the title of 3rd largest party. The People's Party (CDS–PP), was the party that suffered the most. The People's Party dropped to fourth place and had the biggest fall in terms of share of the vote, winning just 8% of the vote, a fall of more than 4%. They also lost one seat compared to 1994. Turnout increased compared with 1994, with 39.9% of voters casting a ballot.

Electoral system

The voting method used, for the election of European members of parliament, is by proportional representation using the d'Hondt method, which is known to benefit leading parties. In the 1999 EU elections, Portugal had 25 seats to be filled. Deputies are elected in a single constituency, corresponding to the entire national territory.

Parties and candidates

The major parties that partook in the election, and their EP list leaders, were:Comissão Nacional de Eleições - Deputados
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Left Bloc Left Bloc may refer to: * Left Bloc (Portugal), a political party in Portugal * Left Bloc (Croatia), a political alliance in Croatia * Left Bloc (Hungary) The Left Bloc (in Hungarian: ''Baloldali Blokk'') was a political alliance in Hungary, f ...

(BE),

Miguel Portas Miguel de Sacadura Cabral Portas (1 May 1958 – 24 April 2012) was a Portuguese politician and a Member of the European Parliament for the Left Bloc, part of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left group. He was a member of the Committee ...

(CDU),

Ilda Figueiredo Maria Ilda da Costa Figueiredo (born 30 October 1948 in Troviscal, Oliveira do Bairro) is a Portuguese politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Portuguese Communist Party, part of the European United Left - Nordic Green Left gro ...

Socialist Party Socialist Party is the name of many different political parties around the world. All of these parties claim to uphold some form of socialism, though they may have very different interpretations of what "socialism" means. Statistically, most of th ...

(PS),

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(PSD), José Pacheco Pereira * People's Party (CDS–PP),

Paulo Portas Paulo de Sacadura Cabral Portas (born 12 September 1962, ) is a Portuguese media and political figure, who has, since the 1990s, been one of Portugal's leading conservative politicians. He was the leader of one of Portugal's right-wing parties, t ...

National summary of votes and seats

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party ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;" , Main candidate ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" , Votes ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" , % ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" , +/– ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" , Seats ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" , +/– , - style="text-align:right;" , style="background-color: " width=5px, , style="text-align:left;" ,

(PS) , style="text-align:left;" , PES , style="text-align:left;" ,

, 1,493,146 , 43.07 , 8.20 ! 12 , 2 , - style="text-align:right;" , style="background-color: " width=5px, , style="text-align:left;" ,

(PSD) , style="text-align:left;" , EPP , style="text-align:left;" , José Pacheco Pereira , 1,078,528 , 31.11 , 3.28 ! 9 , 0 , - style="text-align:right;" , style="background-color: " width=5px, , style="text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" ,

Democratic Unitarian Coalition The Unitary Democratic Coalition ( pt, CDU – Coligação Democrática Unitária, PCP–PEV) is an electoral and political coalition between the Portuguese Communist Party ( pt, Partido Comunista Português or PCP) and the Ecologist Party "The Gr ...

(CDU)
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Communist Party A communist party is a political party that seeks to realize the socio-economic goals of communism. The term ''communist party'' was popularized by the title of ''The Manifesto of the Communist Party'' (1848) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. A ...

(PCP)
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Ecologist Party The Ecologist Party ( French: ''Parti écologiste'', PÉ), founded as Écologistes !, is a centre-left French political party that holds pro-European views, created in September 2015 by François de Rugy, President of the Europe Ecology – The ...

(PEV) , style="text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" , GUE/NGL , style="text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" ,

, style="vertical-align:top;" , 357,671 , style="vertical-align:top;" , 10.32 , style="vertical-align:top;" , 0.87 ! 2
2
0 ,
1
0 , - style="text-align:right;" , style="background-color: " width=5px, , style="text-align:left;" , People's Party (CDS–PP) , style="text-align:left;" , UFE , style="text-align:left;" ,

, 283,067 , 8.16 , 4.29 ! 2 , 1 , - style="text-align:right;" , style="background-color: " width=5px, , style="text-align:left;" ,

(BE) , style="text-align:left;" , None , style="text-align:left;" ,

, 61,920 , 1.79 , ''new'' ! 0 , ''new'' , - align="right" , style="background-color: " width=5px, , style="text-align:left;" , Workers' Communist Party (PCTP/MRPP) , style="text-align:left;" , None , style="text-align:left;" ,

António Garcia Pereira António Pestana Garcia Pereira is a Portuguese lawyer and politician, former leader of the Maoist PCTP/MRPP The Portuguese Workers' Communist Party/Re-Organized Movement of the Party of the Proletariat ( pt, Partido Comunista dos Trabalhador ...

, 30,446 , 0.88 , 0.09 ! 0 , 0 , - align="right" , style="background-color: " width=5px, , align="left", People's Monarchist Party (PPM) , align="left", None , align="left", - , 16,182 , 0.45 , 0.20 ! 0 , 0 , - style="text-align:right;" , style="background-color: " width=5px, , align="left",

Earth Party The Earth Party ( pt, Partido da Terra, ), previously called The Earth Party Movement (, abbreviated MPT, hence called ''MPT – Partido da Terra''), is a green-conservative political party in Portugal, founded on 12 August 1993. Its main poli ...

(MPT) , align="left", ELDR , align="left", Paulo Trancoso , 13,924 , 0.40 , 0.03 ! 0 , 0 , - align="right" , style="background-color:#000080" width=5px, , align="left", National Solidarity Party (PSN) , align="left", None , align="left", - , 8,413 , 0.24 , 0.13 ! 0 , 0 , - align="right" , style="background-color: " width=5px, , align="left",

Workers Party of Socialist Unity Workers Party of Socialist Unity (Portuguese: Partido Operário de Unidade Socialista, , POUS) is a small Trotskyist former political party in Portugal, founded by Aires Rodrigues and Carmelinda Pereira in 1979 after a split from the Portuguese S ...

(POUS) , align="left", None , align="left",

Carmelinda Pereira Carmelinda Pereira (born 1948) is a retired teacher and politician from Portugal who represented the Portuguese Socialist Party (PS) in the Portuguese Assembly of the Republic before later becoming the founder of a small Trotskyist party . Earl ...

, 5,565 , 0.16 , 0.06 ! 0 , 0 , - align="right" , style="background-color: " width=5px, , align="left",

Democratic Party of the Atlantic The Democratic Party of the Atlantic ( pt, Partido Democrático do Atlântico, ) was a political party, based in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores. A regional party, whose electorate was concentrated on the islands of São Miguel, it was cr ...

(PDA) , align="left", None , align="left", - , 5,089 , 0.15 , 0.08 ! 0 , 0 , - align="right" , - style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , style="text-align:right;" colspan="4" , Valid votes , 3,353,951 , 96.74 , colspan="3" rowspan="2" , , - style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , style="text-align:right;" colspan="4" , Blank and invalid votes , 113,134 , 3.26 , - style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , style="text-align:right;" colspan="4" , Totals , 3,467,085 , 100.00 , — ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9", 25 , 0 , - style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , colspan="4" , Electorate (eligible voters) and voter turnout , 8,681,854 , 39.93 , 4.39 , colspan="2", , - , style="text-align:left;" colspan="11" , Source
Comissão Nacional de Eleições

Distribution by European group

Maps

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. (

Azores ) , motto =( en, "Rather die free than subjected in peace") , anthem= ( en, "Anthem of the Azores") , image_map=Locator_map_of_Azores_in_EU.svg , map_alt=Location of the Azores within the European Union , map_caption=Location of the Azores wi ...

and

Madeira ) , anthem = ( en, "Anthem of the Autonomous Region of Madeira") , song_type = Regional anthem , image_map=EU-Portugal_with_Madeira_circled.svg , map_alt=Location of Madeira , map_caption=Location of Madeira , subdivision_type=Sovereign st ...

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Electoral system

Parties and candidates

National summary of votes and seats

Distribution by European group

Maps

References

See also