Portuguese presidential election, 2016

Portuguese presidential election, 2016

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Turnout	48.66%
Candidate Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa António Sampaio da Nóvoa Marisa Matias Party PSD Independent BE Popular vote 2,413,956 1,062,138 469,814 Percentage 52.0% 22.9% 10.1%   Candidate Maria de Belém Party Independent Communist Independent Popular vote 196,765 183,051 152,374 Percentage 4.2% 3.9% 3.2%
President before election Cavaco Silva PSD President-elect Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa PSD

Cavaco Silva
PSD

Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa
PSD

A Portuguese presidential election was held on 24 January 2016. This 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 the 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.

Aníbal Cavaco Silva had served two consecutive five-year terms as president, the maximum number, and the 2016 election was to choose a successor for a term beginning on March 9. In Portugal, the president is the head of state, has mostly ceremonial powers only. However, the president does have some political influence and can dissolve the Parliament of Portugal if a crisis occurs. The president also has an official residence in the Belém Palace in Lisbon.

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