1919 Portuguese legislative election

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11 May 1919

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163 seats to the Chamber of Deputies
82 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Afonso Costa	António José de Almeida	Manuel de Brito Camacho
Party	Democratic	Evolutionist	Republican Union
Leader since	1912	1912	1912
Last election	Boycotted	Boycotted	Boycotted
Seats won	96	38	17
Seat change	96	38	17

	Fourth party	Fifth party
	PSP	CCP
Leader		António Lino Neto
Party	Socialist	PCC
Leader since		1915
Last election	Boycotted	5 seats
Seats won	8	1
Seat change	8	4

Prime Minister before election

Domingos Leite Pereira
Independent

Prime Minister after election

Alfredo Ernesto de Sá Cardoso
PD

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Parliamentary elections were held in Portugal on 11 May 1919. The three main parties that boycotted the 1918 elections returned to contest the elections. The result was a victory for the Democratic Party, which won 86 of the 163 seats in the House of Representatives and 36 of the 71 seats in the Senate.

Results

Party	House of Representatives				Senate
Party	Votes	%	Seats	+/–	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
Democratic Party			96	New			36	New
Evolutionist Party			38	New			27	New
Republican Union			17	New			27	New
Portuguese Socialist Party			8	New			0	New
Catholic Centre Party			1	–4			1	1
Other parties and independents			13	+8			7	–23
Invalid/blank votes		–	–	–		–	–	–
Total			163	+8			71	–2
Registered voters/turnout	500,000		–	–	500,000		–	–
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

Chamber of Deputies seats

Democratic Party			58.90%
Evolutionist Party			23.32%
Republican Union			10.43%
Socialist Party			4.91%
Catholic Center			0.61%
Others			7.98%

Senate seats

Democratic Party			50.70%
Evolutionist Party			38.03%
Catholic Center			1.41%
Others			9.86%

References

Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1542 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
Nohlen & Stöver, pp1557-1558
Nohlen & Stöver, p1543

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Eleições de 1919

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