align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|0.5 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|51 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|52 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|1 |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 |705||0.62||0.1||colspan=6 rowspan=3| |- |colspan=2|Invalid ballots |624||0.55||0.6 |- |colspan=2 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total (turnout 59.17%) |width="50" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|113,293 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|3.0 |- | colspan=11 align=left|The People's Party contested the 1992 election in an alliance formed by the People's Party (1 seat) and the People's Monarchist Party (0 seats). |- | 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 6th consecutive time. The percentage gathered by the social democrats was virtually the same of the previous election, however, due to the populational growth of the region, the number of MPs was increased from 57 to 59, and so, the social democrats gained 2 MPs, achieving a total of 41. The People's Party lost some of its voters, but still managed to keep the 2 MPs, unlike the National Solidarity Party that lost its single MP. On the left, the Socialist Party increased the voting by 1% and received one more MP. The Unitary Democratic Coalition, led by the Portuguese Communist Party, increased the voting and the number of MPs, stealing one MP from the People's Democratic Union that elected only 1 MP. 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"|1992 ! align="center"|1996 ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|± ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|% ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|± |- | |77,365||56.87||0.0||39||41||2||69.49||1.1||1.22 |- | |33,790||24.84||2.3||12||13||1||22.03||0.9||0.89 |- | |9,950||7.31||0.8||2||2||0||3.39||0.1||0.46 |- | |5,495||4.04||1.0||1||2||1||3.39||1.6||0.84 |- |style="width: 10px" bgcolor=#E2062C align="center" | |align=left|People's Democratic Union |5,485||4.03||0.6||2||1||1||1.69||1.8||0.42 |- | |875||0.64||1.8||1||0||1||0.00||1.8||0.0 |- | |565||0.42||0.2||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"|133,525 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|98.14 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|0.1 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|57 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|59 |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 |991||0.73||0.0||colspan=6 rowspan=3| |- |colspan=2|Invalid ballots |1,534||1.13||0.2 |- |colspan=2 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total (turnout 65.26%) |width="50" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|136,050 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|1.2 |- | colspan=11 align=left | Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições |} See also Azores Madeira Portugal 1996 in Portugal 1996