2024 Azorean regional election
The 2024 Azorean regional election was held on 4 February 2024, to determine the composition of the Legislative Assembly of the Autonomous Region of the Azores. The election replaced all 57 members of the Azores Assembly, and the new members will then elect the President of the Autonomous Region.
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57 seats to the Legislative Assembly of the Azores 29 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Turnout | 50.3% 4.9 pp | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Map showing island constituencies won by political parties. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The current president, José Manuel Bolieiro from the Social Democratic Party (PSD), is currently leading a coalition government between the Social Democrats and the CDS – People's Party (CDS-PP) and People's Monarchist Party (PPM), with the parliamentary support of CHEGA. The Liberal Initiative (IL) initially supported the PSD coalition government but withdrew their support from the government on 8 March 2023. The Social Democrats, the CDS – People's Party and the People's Monarchist Party contested this election in a joint coalition as stipulated in their 2020 coalition agreement.
The PSD/CDS/PPM coalition won the election with 42% of the votes and elected 26 seats, the same number as of 2020. The Socialist Party (PS) was not the most voted party for the first time since 1996, gathering less than 36% of the votes and electing 23 seats, minus two compared with 2020.
CHEGA was the party that most increased its share, achieving 9% of the votes and electing 5 seats to the regional parliament. The Left Bloc (BE) lost ground, compared with 2020, losing one seat, while the Liberal Initiative (IL) and the People-Animals-Nature (PAN) were able to hold on to their sole seats. The Unitary Democratic Coalition (CDU) failed to return to the regional parliament.
Turnout stood at 50.3%, the highest rate since 2004.