Abstract
The last two elections held in Portugal, for the European Parliament (June 2004) and the National Assembly (February 2005), have two main features in common: the severe punishment of the incumbent government, and an overwhelming triumph of the left. Individually, the big winner of both contests was the Socialist Party (centre-left) and, symmetrically, the big loser was the Social Democratic Party (centre-right). The outcome of the 2004 European election was, in a way, a premonition of the landslide result of the 2005 legislative election. The authors analyse the electoral campaigns and the results of each of these contests, and single out the connections between them.
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