rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|% ! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|±pp swing ! colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|MPs ! rowspan="2" colspan=5 style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|MPs %/votes % |- style="background-color:#E9E9E9" ! align="center"|1996 ! align="center"|2000 ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|± ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|% ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|± |- | |49,438||49.20||3.4||24||30||6||57.69||11.5||1.17 |- | |32,642||32.48||8.5||24||18||6||34.62||11.5||1.07 |- | |9,605||9.56||2.2||3||2||1||3.85||1.9||0.40 |- | |4,856||4.83||1.4||1||2||1||3.85||1.9||0.80 |- | |1,387||1.38||—||—||0||—||0.00||—||0.0 |- |style="width: 10px" bgcolor=white align="center" | |align=left|PPM / Democratic Party of the Atlantic |799||0.80||—||—||0||—||0.00||—||0.0 |- |colspan=2 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total valid |width="50" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|98,727 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|98.25 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|0.6 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|52 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|52 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|0 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|0.0 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|— |- |colspan=2|Blank ballots |895||0.89||0.3||colspan=6 rowspan=3| |- |colspan=2|Invalid ballots |862||0.86||0.3 |- |colspan=2 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total (turnout 53.30%) |width="50" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|100,484 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|5.9 |- | colspan=11 align=left | Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições |} The election in Madeira The winner of the election in Madeira was, once more, the Social Democratic Party, and Alberto João Jardim was elected president of the Regional Government with an absolute majority for the 7th consecutive time. The percentage gathered by the social democrats decreased by 1%, however, due to the increase of the overall number of MPs, the party kept their 41 mandates. The People's Party increased its voting and its number of MPs, gathering a total of 3 mandates. On the left, the Socialist Party kept its 13 MPs after, despite losing more than 3% of the voting. The Unitary Democratic Coalition, led by the Portuguese Communist Party, increased the voting and kept the 2 Mps of the previous election. The People's Democratic Union raised the number of MPs from 1 to 2 after a slight increase of the voting. Summary of votes and seats |- ! rowspan="2" colspan=2 style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=left|Parties ! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|Votes ! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|% ! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|±pp swing ! colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|MPs ! rowspan="2" colspan=5 style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|MPs %/votes % |- style="background-color:#E9E9E9" ! align="center"|1996 ! align="center"|2000 ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|± ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|% ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|± |- | |72,588||55.95||0.9||41||41||0||67.21||2.3||1.20 |- | |27,290||21.04||3.8||13||13||0||21.31||0.7||1.01 |- | |12,612||9.72||2.4||2||3||1||4.92||1.5||0.51 |- |style="width: 10px" bgcolor=#E2062C align="center" | |align=left|People's Democratic Union |6,210||4.79||0.8||1||2||1||3.28||1.6||0.68 |- | |6,015||4.64||0.6||2||2||0||3.28||0.1||0.71 |- | |2,243||1.73||1.1||0||0||0||0.00||0.0||0.0 |- |colspan=2 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total valid |width="50" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|126,958 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|97.86 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|0.3 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|59 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|61 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|2 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|0.0 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|— |- |colspan=2|Blank ballots |1,136||0.88||0.2||colspan=6 rowspan=3| |- |colspan=2|Invalid ballots |1,640||1.26||0.2 |- |colspan=2 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total (turnout 61.91%) |width="50" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|129,734 |width="40" align="right"