57 seats to the Legislative Assembly of Azores 29 seats needed for a majority
Turnout
46.7% 8.6 pp
First party
Second party
Third party
PSD
CDS
Leader
Carlos César
Carlos Costa Neves
Artur Lima
Party
PS
PSD
CDS–PP
Leader since
2008
Leader's seat
São Miguel
São Miguel
Terceira
Last election
31 seats, 57.0%
19 seats (CA)[a]
2 seats (CA)[a]
Seats won
30
18
5
Seat change
1
1
3
Popular vote
44,940[1]
27,254[1]
7,857[1]
Percentage
49.9%
30.3%
8.7%
Swing
7.1 pp
N/A
N/A
Fourth party
Fifth party
Sixth party
BE
CDU
PPM
Leader
Zuraida Soares
Aníbal Pires
Paulo Estêvão
Party
BE
CDU
PPM
Leader since
2008
2005
2008
Leader's seat
São Miguel
São Miguel
Corvo
Last election
0 seats, 1.0%
0 seats, 2.8%
0 seats, 0.3%
Seats won
2
1
1
Seat change
2
1
1
Popular vote
2,972[1]
2,829[1]
423[1]
Percentage
3.3%
3.1%
0.5%
Swing
2.3 pp
0.3 pp
0.2 pp
Map showing island constituencies won by political parties
President before election
Carlos Cesar
PS
Elected President
Carlos Cesar
PS
The 2008 Azorean regional election (Portuguese: Eleições Regionais dos Açores de 2008) was an election held on 19 October 2008 for the legislative assembly and government of the Portuguese autonomous region of the Azores.[2] in which the Socialist Party, under the leadership of Carlos César won a third mandate with 46.7% of the turnout, while their rivals, under the Social Democratic Party leader Carlos Costa Neves, received 30.27% of the vote: the result would result Neves' resignation in the following days.
The official electoral race occurred from 5 October to 17 October 2008, marked by a 53.34% abstention rate of the 192,943 registered voters (102,735 did not cast a vote); only 90,030 people voted in this election.[3]
^ abcdefCommissão Nacional das Eleições, ed. (31 October 2008). "Mapa Oficial n.º 3/2008 Eleição da Assembleia Legislativa da Região Autónoma dos Açores realizada em 19 de Outubro de 2008" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Lisbon, Portugal: Diário da República. p. 7760. Retrieved 4 January 2014.
^Gil, António (19 October 2008). "Eleições Regionais Açores 2008: resultados finais oficiais (vídeo)". RTP Açores (in Portuguese). RTP. Retrieved 2 January 2014.
^Ferreira, Miguel A. (21 October 2008). "MMS sobre as eleições nos Açores" (in Portuguese). Retrieved 22 February 2014.
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