2006 Portuguese presidential election

2006 Portuguese presidential election
	Opinion polls
Turnout	61.5% 11.8 pp
President before election; Jorge Sampaio; PS	Elected President ; Aníbal Cavaco Silva; PSD

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.^[1] It was the first time a right-wing candidate was elected President since the 1974 Carnation Revolution.

Results

e • d Summary of the 22 January 2006 Portuguese presidential election results
Candidates		Supporting parties	First round
Candidates		Supporting parties	Votes	%
	Aníbal Cavaco Silva	Social Democratic Party, People's Party	2,773,431	50.54
	Manuel Alegre	Independent	1,138,297	20.74
	Mário Soares	Socialist Party	785,355	14.31
	Jerónimo de Sousa	Portuguese Communist Party, Ecologist Party "The Greens"	474,083	8.64
	Francisco Louçã	Left Bloc	292,198	5.32
	António Garcia Pereira	Portuguese Workers' Communist Party	23,983	0.44
Total valid			5,487,347	100.00
Blank ballots			59,636	1.07
Invalid ballots			43,149	0.77
Total			5,590,132
Registered voters/turnout			9,085,339	61.53
Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições Archived 2012-08-21 at the Wayback Machine

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