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1973 Portuguese legislative election

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Field	Value
country	Portugal
type	parliamentary
previous_election	1969 Portuguese legislative election
previous_year	1969
next_election	1975 Portuguese Constituent Assembly election
next_year	1975
seats_for_election	All 150 seats in the National Assembly
majority_seats	76
election_date	28 October 1973
image1
leader1	Marcello Caetano
party1	People's National Action
last_election1	88.07%, 130 seats
seats1	150
seat_change1	20
title	Prime Minister
posttitle	Prime Minister after election
before_election	Marcello Caetano
before_party	People's National Action
after_election	Marcello Caetano
after_party	People's National Action

Parliamentary elections were held in Portugal on 28 October 1973. After the only opposition party withdrew from the election, the ruling People's National Action (ANP)—formerly the National Union—was the sole party to contest the election, winning all 150 seats. The 1973 election would be the last held under the Estado Novo, as five months later, the Carnation Revolution would bring down the regime. In 1975, the Constituent Assembly of Portugal was elected in the first democratic elections since 1925.

Electoral system

The electoral system, constitutionally amended in 1971, maintained the National Assembly to be elected through plurality voting with semi-open party list in 22 constituencies, with all seats of a constituency going to a sole victor. Voters were formally allowed to strike out individual names. The Chamber of Corporations, consisting of 200 members or more, was appointed by the government following its re-endorsement by the new National Assembly, the last to be before the Carnation Revolution next year.

All natural-born nationals residing in Portugal for the past five years were allowed to stand for election, with all mature, literate citizens officially enlisted for the process. An additional 962,854 overseas citizens participated in an election to the National Assembly for the first time. Some scarcely populated remote countryside regions in the Portuguese overseas territories of Angola and Mozambique were infiltrated by pro-independence guerrillas. Most of Portuguese Guinea (now Guinea-Bissau) was under the control or heavy influence of the guerrillas at the time.

Campaign

Campaigning began on 28 September under the supervision of the regime, while illegal rallies began as early as April. The governing National Union reorganized itself as the People's National Action in 1970. It held its first and only congress as the ANP in May, supervised by party leader and Prime Minister Marcelo Caetano. While Caetano had spent much of his tenure blunting the regime's harsher edges, at bottom he was an authoritarian himself. The heavy handed repression of opposition candidates four years earlier showed he was not willing to move toward democracy.

Following the premature withdrawal of the PDM/CDE, the only opposition party allowed to run on 25 October, due to complaints about its democratic legitimacy, the eligibility and rights of its 66 candidates were revoked for five years.

Results

References

[[Dieter Nohlen]] & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1542 {{ISBN. 978-3-8329-5609-7
[http://www.ipu.org/parline-e/reports/arc/PORTUGAL_1973_E.PDF Portugal] Inter-Parliamentary Union

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