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1957 Portuguese legislative election

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Summary

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Field	Value
country	Portugal
type	parliamentary
previous_election	1953 Portuguese legislative election
previous_year	1953
next_election	1961 Portuguese legislative election
next_year	1961
seats_for_election	All 120 seats in the National Assembly
majority_seats	61
election_date	3 November 1957
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leader1	António de Oliveira Salazar
party1	National Union (Portugal)
last_election1	120 seats
seats1	120
seat_change1
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 3 November 1957. The ruling National Union won all 120 seats.

Electoral system

The elections were held using 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 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 if they were the head of a household and met the same literacy and tax criteria as men.

Campaign

Although the majority of the opposition to the Estado Novo regime boycotted the election in protest at the lack of a free vote, a total of 34 opposition candidates attempted to register for the elections, 12 in Lisbon, 10 in Porto, six in Aveiro and six in Braga. The Lisbon candidates were rejected as their application was a day late, whilst the Porto and Aveiro candidates withdrew after failing to receive a guarantee that they could observe vote counting. Only the six candidates in Braga ultimately contested the election.

Results

References

[[Dieter Nohlen]] & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1542 {{ISBN. 978-3-8329-5609-7
"Portuguese Election Government Candidates Win Every Seat" ''The Times'', 4 November 1957, p9, Issue 53989
Nohlen & Stöver, p1535

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