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The Portuguese legislative election of 1987 took place on July 19 . In the last election, in 1985, the Social Democratic Party had achieved a relative majority, thing that made its government very weak, managing to survive in coalition with the Democratic Social Center and the Democratic Renovator Party, and after the approval of a no confidence resolution from the left-wing parties, with the aid of the Democratic Renovator Party, the government fell and Mário Soares , the President at the time, called for a new election. The election was one by the Social Democratic Party, that with a growing popularity, won with a large majority, the biggest ever in the Portuguese parliamentary history. The Left-wing Unitarian Democratic Coalition lost some of its MPs to the Socialist Party and the Democratic Renovator Party lost almost all of its influence, mainly due to its responsibility in the fall of the former government. The Right-wing Democratic Social Center lost almost a half of the voting, due to the useful voting effect on the also right-wing, Social Democratic Party. The major parties involved and the respective leaders:
Cavaco Silva, leader of the Social Democratic Party, was nominated Prime Minister. NATIONAL SUMMARY OF VOTES AND SEATS (Azores and Madeira are not shown)]]
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