Madeira. The abstention rate was 46.60%, similar to the one in 2023
The abstention rate in today's regional elections in Madeira was 46.60%, very close to the 46.65% registered in the previous elections, according to the provisional results released by the General Secretariat of the Ministry of Internal Administration.
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After all the parishes were counted, the abstention rate was 46.60%, with 254,522 registered voters (135,909 voters).
In last year's elections, the abstention rate ended up being 46.65% and, in 2019, 44.5%.
In 2015, with an abstention rate of 50.42%, the record was broken since 1976, when the first elections for the Legislative Assembly of Madeira were held.
The PSD won today's early regional legislative elections, failing by five deputies to obtain an absolute majority, according to provisional official data.
According to information provided by the General Secretariat of the Ministry of Internal Administration, the Social Democrats obtained 36.13% of the votes and 19 seats in the regional parliament, which consists of a total of 47 deputies.
An absolute majority requires 24 seats.
Last year, in the previous regional elections, the PSD and the CDS-PP, which ran in a coalition, elected 23 deputies, so the Social Democrats signed an agreement of parliamentary incidence with the only PAN deputy.
Fourteen candidacies contested today the 47 seats in the regional parliament, in a single electoral constituency: ADN, BE, PS, Livre, IL, RIR, CDU (PCP/PEV), Chega, CDS-PP, MPT, PSD, PAN, PTP and JPP.
The PS (11), the JPP (nine), the Chega (four), the CDS-PP (two), the IL and the PAN, with one elected each, also managed to elect deputies. The BE and the CDU left the Legislative Assembly, in relation to the previous composition.
Today's early elections took place eight months after the most recent regional legislative elections, after the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, 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 as a defendant in a process in which suspicions of corruption are being investigated.
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