According to information made available by the General Secretariat of the Ministry of Internal Administration, the social democrats obtained 36.13% of the votes (49,103 votes) and 19 seats in the regional parliament, consisting of a total of 47 deputies.

In second place, the PS obtained 11 elected officials (21.32% of the votes, a total of 28,981), followed by the JPP, with nine (16.89% and 22,958 votes), Chega, with four (9.23% and 12,541 votes), the CDS-PP, with two (3.96% and 5,384 votes), and the IL (with 2.56% and 3,482 votes) and the PAN (1.86% and 2,531 votes), with one deputy each. The BE and the CDU are leaving the Legislative Assembly, in relation to the previous composition.

An absolute majority requires 24 seats.

Last year, in the previous regional elections, the PSD and the CDS-PP, who ran together, elected 23 deputies, falling one short of an absolute majority, so the social democrats signed an agreement for parliamentary incidence with the sole PAN deputy.

At the time, the PS elected 11 deputies (the same number as now), Juntos Pelo Povo (JPP) five (four less than today) and Chega four (the same number), while the CDU - Coligação Democrática Unitária (PCP-PEV), the Iniciativa Liberal (IL), the Pessoas-Animais-Natureza (PAN) and the Bloco de Esquerda (BE) each elected one deputy.

In today's elections, 14 candidates ran for office, of which seven failed to elect representatives: in addition to the CDU and the BE, who until now each had one deputy, the ADN, the Livre, the RIR, the MPT and the PTP did not elect.

Today's abstention rate was 46.60%, the same as in the previous elections (46.65%), with 135,909 of the 254,522 registered voters having voted.

The early elections in Madeira took place eight months after the most recent regional legislative elections, after the President of the Republic dissolved the Madeiran parliament, following the political crisis triggered in January, when the leader of the Regional Government (PSD/CDS-PP), Miguel Albuquerque, was named a defendant in a process in which suspicions of corruption are being investigated.

The PSD, which has presided over the regional executive since the first elections in democracy, lost its absolute majority for the first time in 2019 and, after the elections, signed an agreement with the Christian democrats, with whom it has governed in the last two legislatures.

Following the election result in 2023, the regional deputy elected by PAN, Mónica Freitas, and the president of PSD/Madeira, Miguel Albuquerque, negotiated an agreement for parliamentary incidence that allowed the coalition to have the support of the majority of deputies (24 elected), albeit tangentially.

[News updated at 11:10 p.m.]

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