report was published in 1996 under the title: "Caring for the Future, Making the Next Decades Provide a Life Worth Living", edited by Oxford University Press. Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo died of cardiac arrest at her home in Lisbon on 10 July 2004, aged 74. She was buried in Prazeres Cemetery, in Lisbon. Electoral results 1986 Portuguese presidential election |- !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=left colspan="2" rowspan="2"|Candidates !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=left rowspan="2"|Supporting parties !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right colspan="2"|First round !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right colspan="2"|Second round |- !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|Votes !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|% !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|Votes !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|% |- |style="width: 9px" bgcolor=#FF66FF align="center" | |align=left|Mário Soares |align=left|Socialist Party |align="right" |1,443,683 |align="right" |25.43 |align="right" |3,010,756 |align="right" |51.18 |- |style="width: 8px" bgcolor=#0093DD align="center" | |align=left|Diogo Freitas do Amaral |align=left|Democratic and Social Centre, Social Democratic Party |align="right" |2,629,597 |align="right" |46.31 |align="right" |2,872,064 |align="right" |48.82 |- |style="width: 8px" bgcolor=red align="center" | |align=left|Francisco Salgado Zenha |align=left|Portuguese Communist Party, Democratic Renovator Party |align="right" |1,185,867 |align="right" |20.88 |colspan="2" rowspan="3"| |- |style="width: 8px" bgcolor=gray align="center" | |align=left|Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo |align=left|Independent |align="right" |418,961 |align="right" |7.38 |- |style="width: 8px" bgcolor=red align="center" | |align=left|Ângelo Veloso |align=left|Portuguese Communist Party |colspan="2" align="center" |left the race |- |colspan="3" align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total valid |width="65" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|5,677,525 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00 |width="65" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|5,882,820 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00 |- |align=right colspan="3"|Blank ballots |width="65" align="right" |46,334 |width="40" align="right" |0.81 |width="65" align="right" |33,844 |width="40" align="right" |0.57 |- |align=right colspan="3" |Invalid ballots |width="65" align="right"|18,292 |width="40" align="right"|0.32 |width="65" align="right"|20,436 |width="40" align="right"|0.34 |- |colspan="3" align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total (turnout 75.38% and 77.99%) |width="65" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|5,742,151 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| |width="65" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|5,937,100 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| |- | colspan=7 align=left|He left the race in favor of Salgado Zenha. |- |colspan=7 align=left|Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições |} Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo Award Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo was a former student at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), one of the most prestigious Engineering faculties in Portugal. Since 2016, IST promotes the Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo Award aiming to recognise and reward annually two women, graduated at IST, as a way to promote the gender balance policy at IST as well as recognise the crucial role that women have in all fields of Engineering. References Further reading Skard, Torild (2014) "Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo" in Women of Power - Half a century of female presidents and prime ministers worldwide, Brtistol: Policy Press, . 1930 births 2004 deaths 20th-century Portuguese politicians 20th-century women rulers Catholic socialists Grand Crosses of the Order of Christ (Portugal) Grand Crosses of the Order of Liberty Grand Crosses of the