Portuguese legislative election, 1925

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Parliamentary elections were held in Portugal on 8 November 1925.^[1] The result was a victory for the Democratic Party, which won 83 of the 163 seats in the House of Representatives and 39 of the 70 seats in the Senate.^[2] With a military coup the following year and the subsequent Estado Novo period, they were the last truly multi-party elections in the country until the 1975 Constituent Assembly election.^[3]

Results

Party	House of Representatives				Senate
Party	Votes	%	Seats	+/–	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
Democratic Party			83	+9			39	+2
Nationalist Republican Party			36	–15			8	–13
Monarchist Cause			7	–6			5	+1
Democratic Leftwing Republican Party			6	New			0	New
Union of Economic Interests			6	New			0	New
Catholic Centre Party			4	–1			1	0
Portuguese Socialist Party			2	+2			0	0
Other parties and independents			19	–1			12	+5
Invalid/blank votes		–	–	–		–	–	–
Total	407,960	100	163	0			65	–5
Registered voters/turnout	574,260	71.0	–	–	574,260		–	–
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

References

↑ Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1542 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
↑ Nohlen & Stöver, pp1557-1558
↑ Nohlen & Stöver, p1552

Elections and referendums in Portugal

Presidential elections	1911 1915 (May) 1915 (Aug) 1918 (Apr) 1918 (Dec) 1919 1923 1925 1928 1935 1942 1949 1951 1958 1965 1972** 1976 1980 1986 1991 1996 2001 2006 2011 2016

Parliamentary elections	1820 1822 1826 1834 1836 (Jul) 1836 (Nov) 1838 1840 1842 1845 1847 1851 1852 1856 1858 1860 1861 1864 1865 1868 1869 1870 (Mar) 1870 (Sep) 1871 1874 1878 1879 1881 1884 1887 1889 1890 1892 1894 1895 1897 1899 1900 1901 1904 1905 1906 (Apr) 1906 (Aug) 1908 1910 1911* 1915 1918 1919 1921 1922 1925 1934 1938 1942 1945 1949 1953 1957 1961 1965 1969 1973 1975* 1976 1979 1980 1983 1985 1987 1991 1995 1999 2002 2005 2009 2011 2015 Next

Local elections	1976 1979 1982 1985 1989 1993 1997 2001 2005 2009 2013 2017

European elections	1987 1989 1994 1999 2004 2009 2014

Referendums	1933 1998 (Jun) 1998 (Nov) 2007

* Constituent Assembly ** Indirect elections See also: Elections in Azores Madeira

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