2000 Madeiran regional election


The Madeira Regional Election 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 population of each municipality. Alberto João Jardim, of the Social Democratic Party kept his dominance over the regional political panorama, winning the election with an absolute majority of 56%, losing only 1% of the voting and achieving the 7th consecutive absolute majority since the very first election in 1976. The two extra mandates were distributed by the People's Party and the People's Democratic Union.
Voter turnout was lower, compared with 1996, with 61.9% of the electorate casting their ballot on election day.

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:
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 1%, 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% of the voting. The Unitarian 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.

Summary of votes and seats

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! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|Votes
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! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|±pp swing
! colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|MPs
! rowspan="2" colspan=5 style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|MPs %/
votes %
! align="center"|1996
! align="center"|2000
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Distribution by constituency

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!rowspan=2|Total
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!colspan=2 | PSD
!colspan=2 | PS
!colspan=2 | CDS-PP
!colspan=2 | UDP
!colspan=2 | CDU