2nd Legislature of the Third Portuguese Republic

Party		Parliamentary group leader	Elected
			Seats	%
	PPD/PSD	Pedro Roseta (Castelo Branco) (1980–1981) Afonso Moura Guedes (Lisbon) (1981–1982) Manuel Pereira (Coimbra) (1982) Vítor Crespo (Leiria) (1982–1983)	82	32.8
	PS	Francisco Salgado Zenha (Porto)	66	26.4
	CDS	Narana Coissoró (Lisbon)	46	18.4
	PCP	Carlos Brito (Faro)	39	15.6
	PPM	Augusto Ferreira do Amaral (Lisbon)	6	2.4
	UEDS	António Lopes Cardoso (Lisbon)	4	1.6
	ASDI	António Sousa Franco (Lisbon)	4	1.6
	MDP/CDE	José Tengarrinha (Lisbon)	2	0.8
	UDP	Mário Tomé (Lisbon)	1	0.4
Total			250	100.0

To be elected, a candidate needs to reach a minimum of 126 votes. For the first session of the legislature, two candidates were on the ballot, Teófilo Carvalho dos Santos, from the Socialist Party, and the incumbent Leonardo Ribeiro de Almeida, from the Social Democratic Party who was re-elected:

Election of the President of the Assembly of the Republic
1st Ballot →		18 November 1980
Required majority →		126 out of 250
	Leonardo Ribeiro de Almeida (PPD/PSD)	124 / 250	Y
	Teófilo Carvalho dos Santos (PS)	102 / 250	N
	Blank ballots	2 / 250
	Invalid ballots	3 / 250
	Absentees	19 / 250
Sources: [6]

A year later, on October 1981, another ballot was called to elect a new President of the Assembly. There were once again two candidates, Francisco de Oliveira Dias, from the Democratic and Social Center, and Teófilo Carvalho dos Santos, from the Socialist Party. In the first ballot, no one was elected:

Election of the President of the Assembly of the Republic
1st Ballot →		20 October 1981
Required majority →		126 out of 250
	Teófilo Carvalho dos Santos (PS)	98 / 250	N
	Francisco de Oliveira Dias (CDS)	97 / 250	N
	Blank ballots	24 / 250
	Invalid ballots	0 / 250
	Absentees	31 / 250
Sources: [6]

In the second ballot, Francisco de Oliveira Dias managed to be elected, achieving a majority:

Election of the President of the Assembly of the Republic
2nd Ballot →		22 October 1981
Required majority →		126 out of 250
	Francisco de Oliveira Dias (CDS)	128 / 250	Y
	Teófilo Carvalho dos Santos (PS)	108 / 250	N
	Blank ballots	2 / 250
	Invalid ballots	2 / 250
	Absentees	10 / 250
Sources: [6]

Once again, another year later, in October 1982, another election was held where the Socialist Party nominated Teófilo Carvalho dos Santos and the Social Democratic Party nominated Leonardo Ribeiro de Almeida. No candidate was able to be elected for the first 3 ballots:

Election of the President of the Assembly of the Republic
1st Ballot →		21 October 1982
Required majority →		126 out of 250
	Teófilo Carvalho dos Santos (PS)	109 / 250	N
	Leonardo Ribeiro de Almeida (PPD/PSD)	84 / 250	N
	Blank ballots	38 / 250
	Invalid ballots	3 / 250
	Absentees	16 / 250
Sources: [6]

Election of the President of the Assembly of the Republic
2nd Ballot →		21 October 1982
Required majority →		126 out of 250
	Teófilo Carvalho dos Santos (PS)	108 / 250	N
	Leonardo Ribeiro de Almeida (PPD/PSD)	86 / 250	N
	Blank ballots	36 / 250
	Invalid ballots	3 / 250
	Absentees	17 / 250
Sources: [6]

Election of the President of the Assembly of the Republic
3rd Ballot →		3 November 1982
Required majority →		126 out of 250
	Leonardo Ribeiro de Almeida (PPD/PSD)	108 / 250	N
	Teófilo Carvalho dos Santos (PS)	101 / 250	N
	Blank ballots	7 / 250
	Invalid ballots	1 / 250
	Absentees	33 / 250
Sources: [6]

Only at the 4th attempt did Leonardo Ribeiro de Almeida managed to be elected, due to the lack of people present to vote.

Election of the President of the Assembly of the Republic
4th Ballot →		3 November 1982
Required majority →		Majority
	Leonardo Ribeiro de Almeida (PPD/PSD)	115 / 250	Y
	Teófilo Carvalho dos Santos (PS)	102 / 250	N
	Blank ballots	5 / 250
	Invalid ballots	1 / 250
	Absentees	27 / 250
Sources: [6]