2000 Madeiran regional election

The 2000 Madeira Regional Election (Portuguese: Eleições Regionais da Madeira de 2000) was an election held on 15 October 2000 for the legislative assembly and government of the Portuguese autonomous region of the Madeira. There were 61 seats in dispute, two more than in the previous election, distributed by the 11 municipalities of the archipelago proportionally to the number of registered voters of each municipality.

2000 Madeiran regional election

← 1996 15 October 2000 2004 →
61 seats to the Legislative Assembly of Madeira 31 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	61.9% 3.4 pp
First party Second party Third party   Leader Alberto João Jardim José Mota Torres José Manuel Rodrigues Party PSD PS CDS–PP Leader's seat Funchal Funchal Funchal Last election 41 seats, 56.9% 13 seats, 24.8% 2 seats, 9.7% Seats won 41 13 3 Seat change 0 0 1 Popular vote 72,588 27,290 12,612 Percentage 56.0% 21.0% 9.7% Swing 0.9 pp 3.8 pp 2.4 pp   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader Paulo Martins Edgar Silva Party UDP CDU Leader's seat Funchal Funchal Last election 1 seat, 4.0% 2 seats, 4.0% Seats won 2 2 Seat change 1 0 Popular vote 6,210 6,015 Percentage 4.8% 4.6% Swing 0.8 pp 0.6 pp
The most voted party in each municipality.
President before election Alberto João Jardim PSD Elected President Alberto João Jardim PSD

The winner of the election in Madeira was, once more, the Social Democratic Party, and Alberto João Jardim was elected president of the Regional Government with an absolute majority for the 7th consecutive time. The percentage gathered by the Social Democrats decreased by one percentage point, however, due to the increase of the overall number of MPs, the party kept their 41 mandates.

The People's Party increased its voting and its number of MPs, gathering a total of 3 mandates.

On the left, the Socialist Party kept its 13 MPs after, despite losing more than 3 percent of the votes. The Unitary Democratic Coalition, led by the Portuguese Communist Party, increased the voting and kept the 2 Mps of the previous election. The People's Democratic Union raised the number of MPs from 1 to 2 after a slight increase of the voting.

Voter turnout was lower, compared with 1996, with 61.9 percent of the electorate casting their ballot on election day.

Electoral system

In this election, the members of the regional parliament were elected in 11 constituencies, representing the 11 municipalities of Madeira, that were awarded a determined number of member to elect according with the number of registered voters in those constituencies. The method use to elect the members was the D'Hondt method.^[1] In this election the number of MPs to be elected rose from 59 in 1996 to 61.

Constituency	Total MPs	Registered voters[2]
Calheta	3	10,288
Câmara de Lobos	6	22,667
Funchal	28	96,465
Machico	5	18,618
Ponta do Sol	2	6,963
Porto Moniz	2	3,062
Porto Santo	2	3,934
Ribeira Brava	3	11,066
Santa Cruz	6	22,004
Santana	2	8,535
São Vicente	2	5,886
Total	61	209,488

Political parties

A total of 6 political parties presented lists of candidates for the regional elections in Madeira, where 209,541 electors could elect 61 deputies to the Legislative Assembly. The list of parties running was the following:

• Democratic Unity Coalition (CDU), an alliance of the Greens and Portuguese Communist Party (PCP).
• People's Democratic Union (UDP).
• People's Party (CDS-PP)
• National Solidarity Party (PSN)
• Socialist Party (PS), leader José Carlos Pinto Basto da Mota Torres.
• Social Democratic Party (PSD), leader Alberto João Jardim.

Results

Summary of votes and seats

Summary of the 15 October 2000 Legislative Assembly of Madeira elections results

2 2 13 41 3
Parties		Votes	%	±pp swing	MPs
					1996	2000	±	%	±
	Social Democratic	72,588	55.95	0.9	41	41	0	67.21	2.3
	Socialist	27,290	21.04	3.8	13	13	0	21.31	0.7
	People's	12,612	9.72	2.4	2	3	1	4.92	1.5
	People's Democratic Union	6,210	4.79	0.8	1	2	1	3.28	1.6
	Democratic Unity Coalition	6,015	4.64	0.6	2	2	0	3.28	0.1
	National Solidarity	2,243	1.73	1.1	0	0	0	0.00	0.0
Total valid		126,958	97.86	0.3	59	61	2	100.00	0.0
Blank ballots		1,136	0.88	0.2
Invalid ballots		1,640	1.26	0.2
Total		129,734	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		209,541	61.91	3.4
Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições

Vote share PSD   55.95% PS   21.04% CDS-PP   9.72% UDP   4.79% CDU   4.64% PSN   1.73% Blank/Invalid   2.14%

Parliamentary seats PSD   67.21% PS   21.31% CDS-PP   4.92% UDP   3.28% CDU   3.28%

Distribution by constituency

Results of the 2000 election of the Legislative Assembly
of Madeira by constituency

Constituency	%	S	%	S	%	S	%	S	%	S	Total S
	PSD		PS		CDS-PP		UDP		CDU
Calheta	66.3	3	7.4	-	21.8	-	1.3	-	0.9	-	3
Câmara de Lobos	67.8	5	15.1	1	6.7	-	3.3	-	4.4	-	6
Funchal	50.2	15	19.3	6	10.7	3	7.3	2	7.5	2	28
Machico	56.1	3	31.3	2	5.3	-	2.6	-	2.3	-	5
Ponta do Sol	59.0	2	28.0	-	8.5	-	2.0	-	0.5	-	2
Porto Moniz	57.8	1	33.6	1	5.4	-	0.6	-	0.7	-	2
Porto Santo	50.2	1	43.1	1	2.6	-	1.4	-	0.3	-	2
Ribeira Brava	69.2	3	13.7	-	10.1	-	0.8	-	1.2	-	3
Santa Cruz	52.5	4	26.4	2	9.8	-	4.1	-	3.4	-	6
Santana	63.6	2	22.7	-	7.4	-	2.0	-	0.9	-	2
São Vicente	60.9	2	23.5	-	9.5	-	2.0	-	0.9	-	2
Total	56.0	41	21.0	13	9.7	3	4.8	2	4.6	2	61
Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições

Maps

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  Most voted political force by municipality.