Portuguese presidential election, 1991

Portuguese presidential election, 1991

13 January 1991

Candidate Mário Soares Basílio Horta Party PS CDS–PP Popular vote 3,459,521 696,379 Percentage 70.4% 14.2%

President before election Soares PS President-elect Soares PS

Portugal

This article is part of the series: Politics and government of Portugal

The Portuguese presidential election of 1991 was held on 13 January.

The re-election of the hugely popular Mário Soares was never in doubt, specially after the then-ruling PSD, led by prime-minister Aníbal Cavaco Silva announced its support. Therefore, the election held on 13 January 1991 was a landslide, and no second round was needed.

As the election of a left-wing candidate was assured, the major left-wing parties, the Portuguese Communist Party and the People's Democratic Union, presented their own candidates. The communists presented Carlos Carvalhas, who had been Assistant General Secretary of the Party a year before (Álvaro Cunhal was the General Secretary). Carvalhas would later be elected General Secretary, in 1992.

On the right, as the Social Democratic Party supported Soares, the Democratic and Social Center presented the only right-wing candidate, Basílio Horta.

Mário Soares achieved the majority of the votes in every district of the country, and 302 of the then 305 municipalities. His score was the biggest ever in a presidential election in Portugal.

Results

Summary of the 13 January 1991 Portuguese presidential election results

References

• "CNE Resultados". Comissão Nacional de Eleições. Retrieved 17 May 2005. 
• "Centro de Estudos do Pensamento Político". Retrieved 17 May 2005. 

External links

• Portuguese Electoral Commission
• NSD: European Election Database - Portugal publishes regional level election data; allows for comparisons of election results, 1990-2010

See also

• President of Portugal
• Portugal
• Politics of Portugal

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