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Assembleia da República · 1976–2025

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  1. Search this plenary, from 1976 to 2025, by text, date, party, legislature (the term each Record prints), and deputy.
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What it is

The plenary of this chamber, turn by turn, according to its official record: Diário da Assembleia da República, I Série.

Portugal · 1976 · 62 sessions · 15,281 speech turnsPortugal · 1977 · 103 sessions · 29,644 speech turnsPortugal · 1978 · 98 sessions · 28,721 speech turnsPortugal · 1979 · 79 sessions · 28,455 speech turnsPortugal · 1980 · 85 sessions · 37,893 speech turnsPortugal · 1981 · 118 sessions · 41,758 speech turnsPortugal · 1982 · 133 sessions · 47,284 speech turnsPortugal · 1983 · 82 sessions · 25,463 speech turnsPortugal · 1984 · 132 sessions · 50,075 speech turnsPortugal · 1985 · 98 sessions · 28,996 speech turnsPortugal · 1986 · 118 sessions · 32,269 speech turnsPortugal · 1987 · 92 sessions · 21,268 speech turnsPortugal · 1988 · 111 sessions · 38,069 speech turnsPortugal · 1989 · 113 sessions · 34,738 speech turnsPortugal · 1990 · 109 sessions · 27,193 speech turnsPortugal · 1991 · 93 sessions · 21,810 speech turnsPortugal · 1992 · 103 sessions · 26,823 speech turnsPortugal · 1993 · 100 sessions · 24,447 speech turnsPortugal · 1994 · 101 sessions · 26,314 speech turnsPortugal · 1995 · 92 sessions · 22,704 speech turnsPortugal · 1996 · 111 sessions · 37,146 speech turnsPortugal · 1997 · 113 sessions · 37,575 speech turnsPortugal · 1998 · 96 sessions · 31,041 speech turnsPortugal · 1999 · 93 sessions · 27,517 speech turnsPortugal · 2000 · 35 sessions · 12,080 speech turnsPortugal · 2001 · 104 sessions · 30,621 speech turnsPortugal · 2002 · 73 sessions · 29,386 speech turnsPortugal · 2003 · 110 sessions · 46,363 speech turnsPortugal · 2004 · 95 sessions · 34,768 speech turnsPortugal · 2005 · 74 sessions · 24,127 speech turnsPortugal · 2006 · 110 sessions · 35,893 speech turnsPortugal · 2007 · 109 sessions · 38,931 speech turnsPortugal · 2008 · 110 sessions · 38,808 speech turnsPortugal · 2009 · 96 sessions · 27,896 speech turnsPortugal · 2010 · 100 sessions · 31,452 speech turnsPortugal · 2011 · 95 sessions · 28,845 speech turnsPortugal · 2012 · 118 sessions · 38,678 speech turnsPortugal · 2013 · 115 sessions · 33,063 speech turnsPortugal · 2014 · 111 sessions · 28,579 speech turnsPortugal · 2015 · 98 sessions · 23,797 speech turnsPortugal · 2016 · 103 sessions · 25,587 speech turnsPortugal · 2017 · 107 sessions · 27,103 speech turnsPortugal · 2018 · 111 sessions · 28,377 speech turnsPortugal · 2019 · 97 sessions · 27,133 speech turnsPortugal · 2020 · 91 sessions · 25,604 speech turnsPortugal · 2021 · 90 sessions · 19,236 speech turnsPortugal · 2022 · 78 sessions · 25,416 speech turnsPortugal · 2023 · 118 sessions · 52,053 speech turnsPortugal · 2024 · 80 sessions · 38,976 speech turnsPortugal · 2025 · 76 sessions · 39,125 speech turns
Every year has a session, from 1976 to 2025.
Table
Portugal, Assembleia da República: from 1976 to 2025.
PeriodSessionsSpeech turns
19766215,281
197710329,644
19789828,721
19797928,455
19808537,893
198111841,758
198213347,284
19838225,463
198413250,075
19859828,996
198611832,269
19879221,268
198811138,069
198911334,738
199010927,193
19919321,810
199210326,823
199310024,447
199410126,314
19959222,704
199611137,146
199711337,575
19989631,041
19999327,517
20003512,080
200110430,621
20027329,386
200311046,363
20049534,768
20057424,127
200611035,893
200710938,931
200811038,808
20099627,896
201010031,452
20119528,845
201211838,678
201311533,063
201411128,579
20159823,797
201610325,587
201710727,103
201811128,377
20199727,133
20209125,604
20219019,236
20227825,416
202311852,053
20248038,976
20257639,125

Derived edition for research: in case of any discrepancy, your chamber's Record prevails.

Where it comes from

Debates Parlamentares, Assembleia da República. https://debates.parlamento.pt/catalogo/r3/dar. HTML. Legislatures I-XVII (1976-2025). How it was transformed, step by step, is told in the process report that comes with the dataset.

Numbers

  • 4,939 sessions, in 50 of 50 years.With no speech turns, 4.
  • 1,559,320 rows; 1,554,381 are speech turns.
  • In 85.54% of those speech turns, we know which deputy is speaking; another 4.14% belong to those who cannot hold a seat. Not counting these or collective voices, 98.32%.

View how it is calculated

Women's voice, in words

Words of women deputies for every hundred words of deputies of known sex, by decade. It measures voice, not seats.

Sex is assigned by us, with more error for women than for men. We assign it correctly for 97.43% of women and for 99.54% of men, measured together across eleven rosters—the lists of deputies—reviewed by hand. This is one of them.
View speech turns and women speakers
Portugal · Women's voice, in words
PeriodWordsSpeech turnsWomen speakers
1976–794.40%417,649 / 9,490,0023.12%2,660 / 85,3935.45%18 / 330
1980–896.02%2,033,981 / 33,811,4794.96%15,306 / 308,7048.31%67 / 806
1990–9910.05%2,688,607 / 26,748,9677.37%17,238 / 234,04912.69%82 / 646
2000–0916.37%4,050,670 / 24,750,89711.80%31,445 / 266,55925.57%158 / 618
2010–1932.50%7,901,736 / 24,313,68328.21%71,841 / 254,68734.93%219 / 627
2020–2533.50%4,939,918 / 14,744,56224.02%43,287 / 180,24237.75%225 / 596

The words of deputies of known sex, in that chamber and that decade. Those who cannot hold a seat, collective voices, and non-speech rows are not included.

Before using it

This corpus declares three limitations, each one measured. They are in the dataset's "Known limitations" document, in English, Spanish and Portuguese.

The dataset

There are 17 files: the interventions; the roster; README, data dictionary, known limitations, and processing report, in English, Spanish, and Portuguese; and, for software, corpus numbers, metadata, and linkage methods.

The interventions file is 1.1 GB. Do not open it in a spreadsheet: it can truncate rows and text. When you choose the file, the explorer tells you how much memory it needs.

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Authorship: Rodrigues-Silveira, Rodrigo. DOI: 10.7910/DVN/VRPUFU. Edition v2.0. License CC BY 4.0.

Identifiers are stable within an edition, not across editions.

How to cite

Rodrigues-Silveira, Rodrigo, 2026, "ParlaIbero-PT: Parliamentary Speeches from Portugal (1976-2025)", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/VRPUFU, Harvard Dataverse, V2