2016 Azorean regional election


The Azores Regional Election, 2016 was on October 16 of the same year. In this election, the incumbent president of the regional government, led by the Socialist Vasco Cordeiro, was seeking a second term.
In this election, the PS maintained their absolute majority but lost one seat and lost 2.6% of the vote compared to 2012. The Social Democrats also lost one seat although their vote share fall was lower than the Socialists. The big winner was the People's Party which gain 7% of the vote and gained one seat compared to 2012. The Left Bloc also won one more seat compared to last time while the CDU maintained their only seat but at the same time, gained in share of the vote and was the most voted party in the island of Flores. The PPM also maintained their seat in the island of Corvo.
Turnout in this election was the lowest ever, as only 40.84% of the electorate cast a ballot.

Electoral system

The Azores regional parliament elects 57 members through a proportional system in which the 9 islands elect a number of MPs proportional to the number of registered voters. MPs are allocated by using the D'Hondt method. 5 members are also elected for a Compensation constituency.
ConstituencyTotal
MPs		Registered
voters
Corvo2334
Faial413,019
Flores33,187
Graciosa34,411
Pico413,496
Santa Maria35,499
São Jorge38 648
São Miguel20127,206
Terceira1052,409
Compensation5
Total57228,259

Current parties in parliament

The parties that up to date of election were represented in the Assembly and their leaders, are:

Opinion Polling

Poll results are listed in the table below in reverse chronological order, showing the most recent first. The highest percentage figure in each polling survey is displayed in bold, and the background shaded in the leading party's colour. In the instance that there is a tie, then no figure is shaded but both are displayed in bold. The lead column on the right shows the percentage-point difference between the two parties with the highest figures. Poll results use the date the survey's fieldwork was done, as opposed to the date of publication.

Vote

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Results

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votes %
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Distribution by constituency

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