2016 Portuguese presidential election

2016 Portuguese presidential election

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Opinion polls
Turnout	48.66% ( 2.14pp)
Candidate Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa António Sampaio da Nóvoa Marisa Matias Party PSD Independent[a] BE Popular vote 2,413,956 1,062,138 469,814 Percentage 52.00% 22.88% 10.12%
Results by district
President before election Aníbal Cavaco Silva PSD Elected President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa PSD

Presidential elections were held in Portugal on 24 January 2016. The election chose the successor to the President Aníbal Cavaco Silva, who was constitutionally not allowed to run for a third consecutive term.

Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, the candidate supported by PPD/PSD, CDS-PP and PPM, won the election on the first round with 52% of the vote. Marcelo also won in every single district in the country and only lost a few municipalities in the south of the country. Turnout was higher than that of the 2011 election, but reached a record low in a presidential election with no incumbents as only 48.66% of the electorate cast a ballot.
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