Local: It fulfilled today 40 years of the first elections to the “Local power”.

Dec 12, 2016

In this day 12 December 2016 is fulfilled the 40th anniversary of the First Local Elections in Portugal, symbolic date which instituted the Local Democratic Power with constitutionally enshrined autonomy, with its own powers and bodies elected by mandate, by popular vote.

The Portuguese local elections 1976 They were performed 12 from December. Were the first elections to elect local authorities, after, the Carnation Revolution. These elections were elected 304 municipal mayors, 5135 municipal representatives and, search, of 26 thousand deputies to the parish assemblies.

The results of these elections were won by the PS, that could, next to 33% of the vote, despite, have tied with the PSD in number of mayors: 115. Importantly, also, abstention, which was around 35%, high number, taking into account, what, in legislative elections 1976, abstention was, approximately, 16%.

No district Beja, the Electoral Front United People, got 45.842 votes, 47,25 %, elected 9 mayors (Aljustrel: António Raposo, Canyons: Carlos Durão, Beja: Jose Colaco, Castro Verde: Fernando Caeiros, Cuba: Francisco Rodrigues, Ferreira do Alentejo: Joseph Plum, Mértola: Serrao Antonio Martins, Odemira: Justino dos Santos and Serpa: Satiro Louzeiro) and 39 aldermen.

O Socialist Party, reached 38.011 votes, 39,18%, electing 4 presidents (Almodovar: Carlos Gago, Alvito: Joaquim Cabanas, Moura: Armando Manso and Vidigueira: Manuel Reis) and 35 councilors and the Social Democratic Party (PSD), reached 3.254 votes, 3,35 %, achieving a presidency chamber (Ourique: Ramiro Vilhena) and 4 aldermen.

Competed yet Social Democratic Centre (CDS), GDs of Popular Unity and the Communist Party of Portugal (Marxist-Leninist), who failed to win any authority or elected councilors.

All elected presidents in Beja District, from 1976.

Aljustrel: Chairman of the Administrative Commission: Antonio Alexandre Raposo, 1974-1976. effective Presidents: Antonio Alexandre Raposo, 1976-1989. António José Gonçalves Soares Godinho, 1989-2009. Nelson Domingos Brito, 2009-.

Almodovar: Chairman of the Administrative Commission: Carlos Dinis Gago Morgadinho, 1974-1976. effective Presidents: Carlos Dinis Gago Morgadinho, 1976-1982. Manuel António do Carmo Salt, 1982-1995. Manuel Lopes Ribeiro, 1997-2001. António José Messias Rosario Sebastian, 2001-2013. António Manuel Ascension Master Boot, 2013-

Alvito: Chairman of the Administrative Commission: Teófilo Casaca Sim-Sim, 1974-1976. effective Presidents: Joaquim Augusto Pereira Cabanas, 1976-1979. Antonio Virgilio Bouquet Sigh, 1979-1982. Armando Brito Figueiredo, 1982-1985. Francisco Manuel Godinho Trinity, 1985-1993. José Antonio Rosario Lopes Guerreiro, 1993-2001. 149 Antonio Eduardo de Sousa Paiva, 2001-2005. João Paulo de Almeida Launches Trinity, 2005-2009. João Luís Batista Penetrates, 2009-2013.António João Ugly Valerius, 2013-.

Canyons: Chairman of the Administrative Commission: José Domingos Gomes Escoval, 1974-1976. effective Presidents: Carlos Hunter Durão, 1976-1982. António Semedo War, 1982-1993. Antonio Pica Tereno, 1993-2001. Nelson José Costa Berjano, 2001-2005. Antonio Pica Tereno, 2005-.

Beja: Chairman of the Administrative Commission: José Carlos da Silva Reis Colaço, 1974-1976. effective Presidents: José Carlos da Silva Reis Colaço, 1976-1982. José Manuel da Costa Marques Carreira, 1982-2005. Francisco Cruz Santos, 2005-2009. Jorge Pulido Valente, 2009-2013. João Manuel Rocha da Silva, 2013-.

Castro Verde: Chairman of the Administrative Commission: Francisco Lara Colaco Alegre, 1974-1976. effective Presidents: Fernando Sousa Caeiros, 1976-2009. Francisco José Caldeira Duarte, 2009-.

Cuba: Chairman of the Administrative Commission: José Mira A. Prates, 1974-1976. effective Presidents: Francisco José Rodrigues Felgueiras, 1976-1982. António da Glória Capelo São Braz, 1982-1997. Francisco Antonio Chicken Ear, 1997-2013. João Manuel Casaca Portuguese, 2013-.

Ferreira do Alentejo: Chairman of the Administrative Commission: Francisco José Gonçalves Lopes Straw, 1974-1976. effective Presidents: Jose Luis Cara New Plum, 1976-1982. Joseph John Spear Warrior, 1982-1993. Luis Antonio Pita Plum, 1993-2005. Aníbal Reis Sousa Coelho da Costa, 2005-.

Mértola: Presidents of Administrative Fees: António Manuel Martins Serrao, 1974-1976. Hélder Agostinho Felizardo, 1976-1976. effective Presidents: António Manuel Martins Serrao, 1976-1982. Fernando Ribeiro Rosa, 1982-1993. Manuel Paulo Ramos Neto, 1993-2001. Jorge Pulido Valente, 2001-2008. Paulo Jorge Colaco Rosa, 2008-.

Moura: Chairman of the Administrative Commission: Armando Lopes de Almeida Manso, 1974-1976. effective Presidents: Armando Lopes de Almeida Manso, 1976-1978. Manuel Romana Ângelo, 1979-1985. António Luís da Costa Oliveira Lamas, 1985-1989. José Simões Martins Duarte, 1989-1993. Manuel António Vitorino Master, 1993-1997. José Maria Post-de-Mina Pleasures, 1999-2013. Santiago Augusto Ferreira Macias, 2013-.

Odemira: Presidents of Administrative Fees: António Gonçalves Gama, 1974-1976. Guilherme Aurélio Rebocho, 1976-1976. effective Presidents: Justino Abreu Augusto Baptista dos Santos, 1976-1993. Cláudio José dos Santos Percheiro, 1993-1997. Antonio Manuel Camilo Coelho, 1997-2009. José Alberto Candeias Warrior, 2009-.

Ourique: Chairman of the Administrative Commission: Ramiro Sobral Nobre de Vilhena, 1974-1976. effective Presidents: Ramiro Sobral Nobre de Vilhena, 1976-1982. Francisco José Rodrigues Felgueiras, 1982-1985. 155 António Afonso Nobre Semedo, 1985-1989. José Filipe Nogueira Estevens, 1989-1993. Jose Raul Guerreiro Mendes dos Santos, 1993-2005. Pedro Nuno Raposo Caramel Delights, 2005-2015. David Marcelo Coelho Warrior, 2015-.

Serpa: Presidents of Administrative Fees: Joaquim José Down in January, 1974-1975. Satyr Costa Louzeiro, 1975-1976. effective Presidents: Satyr Costa Louzeiro, 1976-1979. João Manuel Rocha da Silva, 1979-2012. Thomas Alexandre Pires Martins, 2012-.

Vidigueira: Chairman of the Administrative Commission: Carlos Jorge Pinto Labego Gois, 1974-1976. effective Presidents: Manuel Trindade Reis, 1976-1979. Carlos Jorge Pinto Labego Gois, 1979-2001. António Rodrigues Mendonça, 2001-2005. Luis Manuel Rosa Narra, 2005-.

Teixeira Correia

(journalist)

a) List of elected presidents was withdrawn blog “Alvitrando”, which was based on the work “The Power State of New Local Democracy: mayors and prefects, 1936-2012”, by Maria Antonia Pires de Almeida (here).