page_title: Portuguese Communist Party
section_title: Electoral results
hierarchical_section_title: Portuguese Communist Party / Electoral results
caption_attribution_description: Electoral results per district of the en:Unitarian Democratic Coalition in the Portuguese legislative election of 2005.
context_page_description: The Portuguese Communist Party is a major political party in Portugal. It is a Marxist–Leninist party, and its organization is based upon democratic centralism. The party also considers itself patriotic and internationalist.
  The party was founded in 1921 as the Portuguese section of the Communist International. Made illegal after a coup in the late 1920s, the PCP played a major role in the opposition to the dictatorial regime of António de Oliveira Salazar. During the five-decades-long dictatorship, the party was constantly suppressed by the political police, the PIDE, which forced its members to live in clandestine status under the threat of arrest, torture, and murder. After the Carnation Revolution in 1974, which overthrew the 48-year regime, the 36 members of party's Central Committee had, in the aggregate, experienced more than 300 years in jail.
  After the end of the dictatorship, the party became a major political force in the newly democratic state, mainly among the working class.
caption: CDU results in the parliamentary election of 2005. (Azores and Madeira are not shown)
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