2006 Portuguese presidential election

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
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!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
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!style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;"|Votes
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;"|%
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|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**
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|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
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|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
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|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
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|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
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|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
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|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**
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|style="text-align:right;" colspan="3"|Blank ballots
|width="65" style="text-align:right;"|59,636
|width="40" style="text-align:right;"|1.07
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|style="text-align:right;" colspan="3" |Invalid ballots
|width="65" style="text-align:right;"|43,149
|width="40" style="text-align:right;"|0.77
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|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"|
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|colspan=3|Registered voters/turnout
||9,085,339||61.53
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|colspan=5 style="text-align:left;"|Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições 
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### 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

## References 
## Other websites 
* Portuguese Electoral Commission
* Official results site, Portuguese Justice Ministry
* NSD: European Election Database - Portugal  publishes regional level election data; allows for comparisons of election results, 1990–2010