Title: 2006 Portuguese presidential election Content: The 2006 Portuguese presidential election was held on 22 January to elect a new president to succeed Jorge Sampaio, who was term-limited. Aníbal Cavaco Silva of the Social Democratic Party candidate, the former Prime Minister, won 50.54 percent of the vote in the first round. It was the first time a right- wing candidate was elected President since the 1974 Carnation Revolution. == Results == Summary of the 22 January 2006 Portuguese presidential election results |- !style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;" colspan="2" rowspan="2"|Candidates !style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;" rowspan="2"|Supporting parties !style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text- align:right;" colspan="2"|First round |- !style="background- color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;"|Votes !style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text- align:right;"|% |- |style="width:10px;background-color:#FF9900;text- align:center;"| |style="text-align:left;"|Aníbal Cavaco Silva |style="text- align:left;"|Social Democratic Party, People's Party |style="text- align:right;"|2,773,431 |style="text-align:right;"|50.54 |- |style="width: 5px" style="background-color:#777777;text-align:center;"| |style="text- align:left;"|Manuel Alegre |style="text-align:left;"|Independent |style="text- align:right;"|1,138,297 |style="text-align:right;"|20.74 |- |style="width: 5px" style="background-color:#FF66FF;text-align:center;"| |style="text- align:left;"|Mário Soares |style="text-align:left;"|Socialist Party |style="text-align:right;"|785,355 |style="text-align:right;"|14.31 |- |style="width: 5px" style="background-color:red;text-align:center;"| |style="text-align:left;"|Jerónimo de Sousa |style="text- align:left;"|Portuguese Communist Party, Ecologist Party "The Greens" |style="text-align:right;"|474,083 |style="text-align:right;"|8.64 |- |style="width: 5px" style="background-color:#8B0000;text-align:center;"| |style="text-align:left;"|Francisco Louçã |style="text-align:left;"|Left Bloc |style="text-align:right;"|292,198 |style="text-align:right;"|5.32 |- |style="width: 5px" style="background-color:#CC0000;text-align:center;"| |style="text-align:left;"|António Garcia Pereira |style="text- align:left;"|Portuguese Workers' Communist Party |style="text- align:right;"|23,983 |style="text-align:right;"|0.44 |- |colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total valid |width="65" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"|5,487,347 |width="40" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00 |- |style="text-align:right;" colspan="3"|Blank ballots |width="65" style="text- align:right;"|59,636 |width="40" style="text-align:right;"|1.07 |- |style="text-align:right;" colspan="3" |Invalid ballots |width="65" style="text-align:right;"|43,149 |width="40" style="text-align:right;"|0.77 |- |colspan="3" style="text-align:left;background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total |width="65" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"|5,590,132 |width="40" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"| |- |colspan=3|Registered voters/turnout ||9,085,339||61.53 |- |colspan=5 style="text-align:left;"|Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições |} === Maps === File:Pt plelection pr 2006.PNG|Strongest candidate by electoral district. (Azores and Madeira not shown) File:Presidenciais 2006 (Mapa).png|Strongest candidate by municipality. == Related pages == * President of Portugal * Portugal * Politics of Portugal