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1945 Portuguese legislative election

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Summary

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Field	Value
country	Portugal
type	parliamentary
previous_election	1942 Portuguese legislative election
previous_year	1942
next_election	1949 Portuguese legislative election
next_year	1949
seats_for_election	All 120 seats in the National Assembly
majority_seats	61
election_date	18 November 1945
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leader1	António de Oliveira Salazar
party1	National Union (Portugal)
last_election1	100 seats
seats1	120
seat_change1	20
title	Prime Minister
posttitle	Prime Minister after election
before_election	António de Oliveira Salazar
before_party	National Union (Portugal)
after_election	António de Oliveira Salazar
after_party	National Union (Portugal)

Parliamentary elections were held in Portugal on 18 November 1945. Following reforms introduced by António de Oliveira Salazar, they were the first elections in the Estado Novo to allow opposition parties. The Movement of Democratic Unity was formed by opposition activists, but alongside all opposition candidates, they withdrew from the election before polling day, alleging electoral fraud. As a result, only candidates of the National Union contested the election.

Electoral system

Prior to the elections, the electoral system underwent significant reform. The single 100-member national constituency was replaced by 21 multi-member constituencies and one single-member constituency covering the Azores, together electing a total of 120 members, 13 of which were from Portuguese colonies.

Voters could now delete names from the lists of candidates, but could not replace them. Suffrage was given to all men aged 21 or over as long as they were literate or paid over 100 escudos in taxation, and to women aged over 21 if they had completed secondary education, or, in an extension to the rules, if they were the head of a household and met the same literacy and tax criteria as men.

Results

References

[[Dieter Nohlen]] & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1542 {{ISBN. 978-3-8329-5609-7
Raby DL (1991) ''Fascism and resistance in Portugal: communists, liberals and military dissidents in the opposition to Salazar, 1941-1974'' Manchester University Press, p25
[http://countrystudies.us/portugal/43.htm The New State] Country Studies
"Portugal at the Polls" ''The Times'', 20 November 1945, p5, Issue 50304
Nohlen & Stöver, p1535

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