| Election Name: | 1976 Azorean regional election |
| Country: | Azores |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Election Date: | 27 June 1976 |
| Next Election: | 1980 Azorean regional election |
| Next Year: | 1980 |
| Seats For Election: | 43 seats to the Legislative Assembly of the Azores |
| Majority Seats: | 22 |
| Turnout: | 67.5% |
| Leader1: | Mota Amaral |
| Party1: | Social Democratic Party (Portugal) |
| Seats1: | 27 |
| Popular Vote1: | 59,114 |
| Percentage1: | 53.8% |
| Leader2: | Jaime Gama |
| Party2: | Socialist Party (Portugal) |
| Seats2: | 14 |
| Popular Vote2: | 36,049 |
| Percentage2: | 32.8% |
| Image3: | CDS |
| Leader3: | Américo Viveiros |
| Party3: | CDS – People's Party |
| Seats3: | 2 |
| Popular Vote3: | 8,291 |
| Percentage3: | 7.6% |
| Map Size: | 400px |
| President | |
| Posttitle: | President-designate |
| Before Election: | Altino Pinto de Magalhães |
| Before Party: | Independent (politician) |
| After Election: | Mota Amaral |
| After Party: | Social Democratic Party (Portugal) |
The Azores Regional Election (1976) (Portuguese: Eleições legislativas regionais nos Açores, 1976) was an election held on 27 June 1976 for the first Legislative Assembly of the Portuguese Autonomous Region of the Azores.
Turnout was 67.51 percent (109,826 voted of the 162,677 registered participants), resulting in a victory of the Social Democratic Party led by Mota Amaral, who became the first President through election.
Until the 19th century the administration of the Azores had been separated from the national government, and considered overseas territories. After 1895, the Azores and Madeira obtained their own level of administrative autonomy that was established in the Portuguese Constitution. In this form the islands began to function as autonomous districts, similar to the district Juntas Gerais, which continued until 1974. But, in practice, these communities were abandoned administratively, and had no means to improve development, resulting in immigration. Following the Carnation Revolution, from April 1974 until August 1975, the Azores continued as autonomous districts, until the Junta Governativa dos Açores was constituted under President General Altino de Magalhães and six other councilmen:
The Junta Governantiva which was named on 22 August 1975 constituted a provisional government, that tried to respond to several of the post-Revolution problems, and to prepare a proposal for the first Politico-Administrative Statute for the Autonomous Region of the Azores.
The following table contains the number of seats that each constituency can elect.
| Constituency | Total MPs | Registered voters | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Corvo | 2 | 309 | |
| Faial | 4 | 10,898 | |
| Flores | 3 | 2,680 | |
| Graciosa | 3 | 4,324 | |
| Pico | 4 | 11,413 | |
| Santa Maria | 3 | 4,766 | |
| São Jorge | 4 | 7,711 | |
| São Miguel | 13 | 80,364 | |
| Terceira | 8 | 40,212 | |
| Total | 43 | 162,677 |
|- | colspan="6"||-! rowspan="2" colspan=2 style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=left|Parties! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|Votes! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|%! colspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|Seats|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|1976! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|%|-| |59,114||53.83||27||62.79|-| |36,049||32.82||14||32.56|-| |8,291||7.55||2||4.65|-| |2,387||2.17||0||0.00|-| |638||0.58||0||0.00|-|style="width: 10px" bgcolor=#FF0000 align="center" | |align=left|Movement of Socialist Left|167||0.15||0||0.00|-|colspan=2 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total valid |width="50" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|106,646|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|97.10|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|43|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00|-|colspan=2|Blank ballots|1,304||1.19||colspan=2 rowspan=4||-|colspan=2|Invalid ballots|1,876||1.71|-|colspan=2 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total|width="50" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|109,826|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00|-|colspan=2|Registered voters/turnout||162,677||67.51|-| colspan=6 align=left | Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições|}