Sum of white and null votes exceeds 5% for the first time since 1976

In the electoral circles of the Azores, Coimbra, Guarda and Leiria, the sum of the white and null votes in the Sunday legislatures exceeded, for the first time since 1976, the 5% bar.

According to the EyeData portal, based on official results and available at www.lusa.pt, since the elections of 1976, the white and void votes had never totaled more than 5% in a constituency in Portugal.

However, in these elections the sum of whites and nulls was more than 5% in four of them: Azores, Coimbra, Guarda and Leiria.

The sum of the white and null votes is...