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. Anibal 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;"|Anibal 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;"|Mario 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;"|Jeronimo 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 Louca
|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;"|Antonio 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: Comissao Nacional de Eleicoes
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Maps
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
2006 in Europe
2000s in Portugal
2006 elections
Presidential elections