Study indicates that 20.4% of the votes in the last elections did not elect deputies

Around 1.2 million votes in the last legislative elections were “wasted” and failed to elect any congressman, a new study reveals.

Close to one million and 200 thousand votes were wasted in the last legislative elections. They did not serve to elect any congressman.

A study prepared by mathematician Henrique Oliveira, from the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) indicates that around 1.2 million votes in the last legislative elections were “wasted”.

Voters in the interior territories are the most affected.

Interior territories were particularly harmed by “wasted” votes