PS won the European Elections in the Algarve, as happened at national level, although with a percentage of 31,01, slightly below the national average. PS also won in all 16 Algarve municipalities.
In the results at the regional level, already fully calculated, the big loser is the right-wing coalition «Aliança Portugal», which only got 21,91 percent of the vote, about 6 percentage points below what it achieved at the national level.
Who can also claim victory is the CDU, which was the third most voted force, with 14 percent, and the MPT, which was fourth, with 01 percent of the vote. The CDU was the second most voted force in three municipalities: Aljezur, Silves and Vila Real de Santo António.
Similar to what happened in the rest of the country, abstention was really the big winner, with numbers exceeding 70 percent in the Algarve (71,45%).
Making a comparison with the 2009 European Elections, one can better see the growth of the PS, which gets almost 7 percent more votes than five years ago, and the precipitous decline of the PSD/CDS-PP, which, together, got fewer votes than the Social Democrats alone, in 2009, in the Algarve.
In practice, the drop is from 36,85 percent (adding the votes of the two forces now in alliance, then with separate candidacies) to 21,91 percent, that is, close to 15 percentage points.
The CDU, which in 2009 had been behind the Left Block, managed to rise from 10,49 percent to more than 14 percentage points.
The MPT achieves a historic result and is ahead of BE, which also registered a very significant drop in the region, from 16,58% in 2009, to 6,9%, in today's elections.
The blocistas were only at the head of Marinho and Pinto's party in Lagoa, Vila do Bispo, Portimão, Vila Real de Santo António and Olhão.
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