2024 Madeiran regional election

2024 Madeiran regional election

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47 seats to the Legislative Assembly of Madeira 24 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Turnout	53.4% 0.1 pp
First party Second party Third party   JPP Leader Miguel Albuquerque Paulo Cafôfo Élvio Sousa Party PSD PS JPP Leader since 10 January 2015 2 December 2023 27 January 2015 Last election 20 seats (SM)[a] 11 seats, 21.3% 5 seats, 11.0% Seats won 19 11 9 Seat change 1 0 4 Popular vote 49,104 28,981 22,959 Percentage 36.1% 21.3% 16.9% Swing [a] 0.0 pp 5.9 pp   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Miguel Castro José Manuel Rodrigues Nuno Morna Party CH CDS–PP IL Leader since 2022 14 April 2024 2019 Last election 4 seats, 8.9% 3 seats (SM)[a] 1 seats, 2.6% Seats won 4 2 1 Seat change 0 1 0 Popular vote 12,562 5,374 3,481 Percentage 9.2% 4.0% 2.6% Swing 0.3 pp [a] 0.0 pp   Seventh party Eighth party Ninth party   Leader Mónica Freitas Edgar Silva Roberto Almada Party PAN PCP BE Alliance CDU Leader since 11 August 2023 1996 18 March 2023 Last election 1 seats, 2.2% 1 seats, 2.7% 1 seats, 2.2% Seats won 1 0 0 Seat change 0 1 1 Popular vote 2,531 2,217 1,912 Percentage 1.9% 1.6% 1.4% Swing 0.4 pp 1.1 pp 0.8 pp
President before election Miguel Albuquerque PSD Elected President Miguel Albuquerque PSD

Snap regional elections were held in Madeira on 26 May 2024, to determine the composition of the Legislative Assembly of the Autonomous Region of Madeira. The election replaced all 47 members of the Madeira Assembly, and the new members will then elect the President of the Autonomous Region.

Before the dissolution of the regional parliament, incumbent president Miguel Albuquerque, since 2015, from the Social Democratic Party (PSD), led a coalition government between the Social Democrats and the CDS – People's Party, with the parliamentary support of People Animals Nature. The Social Democrats defended their dominance in the islands, which they have held since 1976.

The Social Democratic Party (PSD), marred in an ongoing corruption investigation, emerged, once again, as the winner with 36 percent of the votes, albeit losing one seat thus gathering 19 seats, but polling comfortably ahead of the second most voted party, the PS.^[1]

The Socialist Party (PS) suffered another big defeat by gathering basically the same number of votes and seats as in September 2023, 21 percent and eleven seats, thus making no gains from the Social Democrats situation.^[2] The Together for the People (JPP) can be considered as the big winner of the elections, by gathering 17 percent of the votes, very close with the Socialists, and winning 9 seats, four more than in 2023. The party was also the most voted in their stronghold of Santa Cruz.^[3]

CHEGA didn't make significant gains and won 9 percent of the votes and held on to the 4 seats won in September 2023. CDS – People's Party (CDS–PP), now running alone after their "quarrel" with the PSD, achieved 4 percent of the votes and won 2 seats, minus one they had in their 2023 coalition with the Social Democrats.^[4]

People-Animals-Nature (PAN) and the Liberal Initiative (IL) held on to their sole seats, while the Left Bloc (BE) lost their seat and left the regional assembly, as did the Unitary Democratic Coalition (CDU), which for the first time in 32 years failed to win a seat in the Madeira assembly.^[5]

The turnout in these elections was the same as in September 2023, with 53.4 percent of voters casting a ballot, compared with the 53.3 percent eight months before.

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