Beja District Explained

District of Beja
Native Name Lang:pt
Settlement Type:District
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:Portugal
Subdivision Type1:Region
Subdivision Name1:Alentejo
Subdivision Type2:Historical province
Subdivision Name2:Baixo Alentejo
Subdivision Type3:No. of municipalities
Subdivision Name3:14
Subdivision Type4:No. of parishes
Subdivision Name4:75
Seat Type:Capital
Seat:Beja
Unit Pref:Metric
Area Total Km2:10,225
Population Total:152758
Population As Of:2011
Population Density Km2:auto
Iso Code:PT-02
Blank Name Sec1:No. of parliamentary representatives
Blank Info Sec1:3

The Beja District (pronounced as /pt/) is located in southern Portugal. The district capital is the city of Beja. It is the largest district of the country by area, comprising around 11% of Portuguese territory. It borders Spain.

Municipalities

The district is composed of 14 municipalities:

All 14 municipalities are divided into 75 freguesias or parishes.

Summary of votes and seats won 1976-2022

See main article: Beja (Assembly of the Republic constituency). |- class="unsortable"!rowspan=2|Parties!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S|- class="unsortable" align="center"!colspan=2 | 1976!colspan=2 | 1979!colspan=2 | 1980!colspan=2 | 1983!colspan=2 | 1985!colspan=2 | 1987!colspan=2 | 1991!colspan=2 | 1995!colspan=2 | 1999!colspan=2 | 2002!colspan=2 | 2005!colspan=2 | 2009!colspan=2 | 2011!colspan=2 | 2015!colspan=2 | 2019!colspan=2 | 2022|-| align="left"| PS || 32.0 || 2 || 22.0 || 1 || 21.1 || 1 || 28.0 || 2 || 20.1 || 1 || 20.3 || 1 || 28.4 || 1 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|45.8 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|2 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|46.7 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|2 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|43.5 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|2 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|51.0 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|2 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|34.9 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|2 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|29.8 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|1 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|37.3 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|1 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|40.7 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|2 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|43.7 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|2|-| align="left"| PSD || 8.2 || || align=center colspan=4 rowspan=2|In AD || 11.8 || || 13.7 || 1 || 24.5 || 1 || 29.3 || 1 || 15.7 || 1 || 14.5 || || 21.2 || || 12.3 || || 14.6 || || 23.7 || 1 || align=center colspan=2 rowspan=2|In PàF || 13.3 || || 15.9|-| align="left"| CDS-PP || 4.2 || || 4.1 || || 2.2 || || 2.0 || || 2.3 || || 3.6 || || 3.9 || || 3.7 || || 2.9 || || 5.7 || || 7.3 || || 2.3 || || 0.8 || |-| align="left"| PCP/APU/CDU || style="background:red"|44.0 || style="background:red"|4 || style="background:red"|50.7 || style="background:red"|3 || style="background:red"|47.1 || style="background:red"|3 || style="background:red"|49.4 || style="background:red"|3 || style="background:red"|44.9 || style="background:red"|3 || style="background:red"|38.7 || style="background:red"|3 || style="background:red"|30.4 || style="background:red"|2 || 29.2 || 1 || 28.3 || 1 || 24.2 || 1 || 24.1 || 1 || 29.1 || 1 || 25.4 || 1 || 25.0 || 1 || 22.8 || 1 || 18.4 || 1|-| align="left"| AD || colspan=2| || 19.0 || 1 || 22.4 || 1 || colspan=26||-| align="left"| PàF || colspan=26| || 20.1 || 1 || colspan=4||-! Total seats || colspan=2| 6 || colspan=10|5 || colspan=4|4 ||colspan=16|3|-! colspan=33|Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições|}

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