Constituent Assembly elections were held in
Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of ...
on 28 May 1911, following a
coup in October 1910.
Dieter Nohlen
Dieter Nohlen (born 6 November 1939) is a German academic and political scientist. He currently holds the position of Emeritus Professor of Political Science in the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences of the University of Heidelberg. An expe ...
& Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1542 The result was a victory for the
Portuguese Republican Party, which won 229 of the 234 seats.
Electoral system
The country was divided into 51 constituencies for the election.
[Nohlen & Stöver, p1534] Lisbon
Lisbon (; pt, Lisboa ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 544,851 within its administrative limits in an area of 100.05 km2. Grande Lisboa, Lisbon's urban area extends beyond the city's administr ...
elected 20 members from two 10 member seats using
proportional representation
Proportional representation (PR) refers to a type of electoral system under which subgroups of an electorate are reflected proportionately in the elected body. The concept applies mainly to geographical (e.g. states, regions) and political divis ...
and the
d'Hondt method
The D'Hondt method, also called the Jefferson method or the greatest divisors method, is a method for allocating seats in parliaments among federal states, or in party-list proportional representation systems. It belongs to the class of highest- ...
, whilst
Oporto
Porto or Oporto () is the second-largest city in Portugal, the capital of the Porto District, and one of the Iberian Peninsula's major urban areas. Porto city proper, which is the entire municipality of Porto, is small compared to its metropol ...
had one 10 member constituency using the same system.
[ The remaining seats were elected from 48 constituencies with three or four members.][
Property qualifications for voters were abolished and suffrage was extended to all adults who were either literate or heads of their households, as well as soldiers, who had previously been barred from voting.][Nohlen & Stöver, pp1533-1534] Bankrupts and "vagabonds" were excluded from the electoral roll.[
Candidates for the election had to be literate, and could not run in more than one seat.][ Party lists had to obtain a certain number of signatures in every constituency (100 in Lisbon and Oporto and 25 in other constituencies) in order to contest the election.][
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Parties
The table below lists the parties that contested the elections:
Results
Aftermath
The 1911 constitution was subsequently drawn up, which provided for a bicameral
Bicameralism is a type of legislature, one divided into two separate assemblies, chambers, or houses, known as a bicameral legislature. Bicameralism is distinguished from unicameralism, in which all members deliberate and vote as a single grou ...
parliament and a president elected by a two-thirds vote in Parliament.[
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References
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Legislative elections in Portugal
Portugal
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1911 elections in Portugal
May 1911 events