1976 Portuguese presidential election

1976 Portuguese presidential election

← 1972 27 June 1976 1980 →
Turnout75.47%
 
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Candidate António Ramalho Eanes Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho
Party Independent[a] Independent[b]
Popular vote 2,967,137 792,760
Percentage 61.59% 16.46%

 
IND
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Candidate José Pinheiro de Azevedo Octávio Pato
Party Independent PCP
Popular vote 692,147 365,586
Percentage 14.37% 7.59%


President before election

Francisco da Costa Gomes
Independent

Elected President

António Ramalho Eanes
Independent

Presidential elections were held in Portugal on 27 June 1976.

With a broad base of support that comprised the center-left and the center-right, Ramalho Eanes won the election on the first round and became the first elected President of Portugal after the Carnation Revolution.

The Portuguese Communist Party presented its own candidate, Octávio Pato, a well known anti-fascist. One of the major responsibles for the military operations during the Carnation Revolution, in 1974, Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, was also a candidate.
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