The 2017 Porto local election was held on 1 October 2017 to elect the members of the

Porto City Council The Porto Municipal Chamber () is the administrative authority in the municipality of Porto. It has 7 freguesias in its area of jurisdiction and is based in the city of Porto, on the Porto District. These freguesias are: Aldoar, Foz do Douro ...

. Rui Moreira, mayor since 2013, won a second term as Mayor of Porto, winning a majority in the city council. He beat the

Socialist Socialism is an economic ideology, economic and political philosophy encompassing diverse Economic system, economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to private ownership. It describes ...

candidate, once again Manuel Pizarro, who managed to increase his voting share and to gain 1 councillor. The

Social Democratic Party The name Social Democratic Party or Social Democrats has been used by many political parties in various countries around the world. Such parties are most commonly aligned to social democracy as their political ideology. Active parties Form ...

, in coalition with the People's Monarchist Party, had a terrible result, losing more than half of the votes from 2013 and electing one single councillor. The Communist Party, with

Ilda Figueiredo Maria Ilda da Costa Figueiredo (born 30 October 1948) is a Portugal, Portuguese politician and a former Member of the European Parliament for the Portuguese Communist Party, part of the European United Left - Nordic Green Left European Parliament p ...

as its candidate, managed to keep its seat in the City Council, despite a slight loss in the vote share. Meanwhile, the Left Bloc, with João Teixeira Lopes as its candidate after

João Semedo João Pedro Furtado da Cunha Semedo (20 June 1951 – 17 July 2018) was a Portuguese physician and politician. Biography Born in Lisbon in 1951, he attended Camões Secondary School and graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the University o ...

withrew his candidacy for health reasons, failed once again to gain any seat in the city council.

Background

In the 2013 election, Rui Moreira, an independent politician, managed to win the election, despite not winning an absolute majority. The

Socialist Party Socialist Party is the name of many different political parties around the world. All of these parties claim to uphold some form of socialism, though they may have very different interpretations of what "socialism" means. Statistically, most of th ...

, led by Manuel Pizarro, achieved second place with 3 seats and about 22% of the votes, being followed by the

, led by

Luís Filipe Menezes Luís Filipe de Menezes Lopes (born 2 November 1953) is a Portuguese politician. Background He is a son of José António Lopes (Porto, Alvar, 10 September 1925 –), an Industrialist (son and paternal grandson of cattle dealers and mate ...

, who also elected 3 seats and got 21% of the votes. The

Unitary Democratic Coalition The Unitary Democratic Coalition (, CDU) is an electoral and political coalition between the Portuguese Communist Party () and the Ecologist Party "The Greens" ( Portuguese: Partido Ecologista "Os Verdes" or PEV). The coalition also integrates ...

got 1 seat and 7.4% of the votes. Rui Moreira governed with support from the

, who intended to support Rui Moreira's independent movement in 2017. Despite that, Rui Moreira declined the support of the Socialist Party and, in response, the Socialists ended the government agreement with the independent movement.

Electoral system

Each party or coalition must present a list of candidates. The winner of the most voted list for the

municipal council A municipal council is the legislative body of a municipality or local government area. Depending on the location and classification of the municipality it may be known as a city council, town council, town board, community council, borough cou ...

is automatically elected mayor, similar to

first-past-the-post First-past-the-post (FPTP)—also called choose-one, first-preference plurality (FPP), or simply plurality—is a single-winner voting rule. Voters mark one candidate as their favorite, or First-preference votes, first-preference, and the cand ...

(FPTP). The lists are closed and the seats in each municipality are apportioned according to the

D'Hondt method The D'Hondt method, also called the Jefferson method or the greatest divisors method, is an apportionment method for allocating seats in parliaments among federal states, or in proportional representation among political parties. It belongs to ...

. Unlike in national legislative elections, independent lists are allowed to run.

Parties and candidates

Opinion polling

Polling

Results

Municipal Council

, - , colspan="11" style="text-align:center;" , , - ! rowspan="2" colspan=2 style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=left,

Parties A party is a gathering of people who have been invited by a host for the purposes of socializing, conversation, recreation, or as part of a festival or other commemoration or celebration of a special occasion. A party will often feature ...

! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=Votes ! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=% ! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=± pp swing ! colspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center", Councillors , - style="background-color:#E9E9E9" ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center", Total ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center", ± , - , style="width: 9px" bgcolor=gray align="center" , , align=left, Porto, Our Party 2017 , 51,159, , 44.46, , 5.2, , 7, , 1 , - , , 32,856, , 28.55, , 5.9, , 4, , 1 , - , style="width: 9px" bgcolor=#FF9966 align="center" , , align=left,

Social Democratic Social democracy is a Social philosophy, social, Economic ideology, economic, and political philosophy within socialism that supports Democracy, political and economic democracy and a gradualist, reformist, and democratic approach toward achi ...

/ People's Monarchist , 11,952, , 10.39, , 10.7, , 1, , 2 , - , , 6,781, , 5.89, , 1.5, , 1, , 0 , - , , 6,146, , 5.34, , 1.7, , 0, , 0 , - , , 2,215, , 1.92, , , , 0, , , - , , 186, , 0.16, , , , 0, , , - , , 173, , 0.15, , , , 0, , , - , , 166, , 0.14, , 0.1, , 0, , 0 , - , colspan=2 width="330" align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9", Total valid , width="50" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9", 111,634 , width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9", 97.01 , width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9", 1.4 , width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9", 13 , width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9", 0 , - , colspan=2, Blank ballots , 1,826, , 1.59, , 0.9, , colspan=3 rowspan=4, , - , colspan=2, Invalid ballots , 1,613, , 1.40, , 0.5 , - , colspan=2 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9", Total , width="50" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9", 115,073 , width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9", 100.00 , width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9", , - , colspan=2, Registered voters/turnout , , 214,324, , 53.69, , 1.1 , - , colspan=11 align=left , Source
Porto 2017 election results

Municipal Assembly

, - , colspan="11" style="text-align:center;" , , - ! rowspan="2" colspan=2 style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=left,

! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=Votes ! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=% ! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=± pp swing ! colspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center", Seats , - style="background-color:#E9E9E9" ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center", Total ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center", ± , - , style="width: 9px" bgcolor=gray align="center" , , align=left, Porto, Our Party 2017 , 44,614, , 38.78, , 4.1, , 16, , 1 , - , , 31,238, , 27.16, , 3.5, , 11, , 1 , - , style="width: 9px" bgcolor=#FF9966 align="center" , , align=left,

/ People's Monarchist , 15.156, , 13.18, , 7.1, , 8, , 3 , - , , 8,748, , 7.60, , 2.3, , 3, , 1 , - , , 8,281, , 7.20, , 2.2, , 3, , 1 , - , , 3,195, , 2.78, , , , 1, , , - , colspan=2 width="330" align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9", Total valid , width="50" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9", 111,232 , width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9", 96.70 , width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9", 1.8 , width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9", 39 , width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9", 0 , - , colspan=2, Blank ballots , 1,991, , 1.73, , 1.2, , colspan=3 rowspan=4, , - , colspan=2, Invalid ballots , 1,809, , 1.57, , 0.5 , - , colspan=2 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9", Total , width="50" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9", 115,032 , width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9", 100.00 , width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9", , - , colspan=2, Registered voters/turnout , , 214,324, , 53.67, , 1.1 , - , colspan=11 align=left , Source
Porto 2017 election results

Parish Assemblies

, - class="unsortable" !rowspan=2, Parish!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S !rowspan=2, Total
S , - class="unsortable" style="text-align:center;" !colspan=2 , RM !colspan=2 , PS !colspan=2 , PSD/ PPM !colspan=2 , CDU !colspan=2 , BE , - , style="text-align:left;" , Aldoar, Foz do Douro e Nevogilde , style="background:#808080; color:white;", 50.2 , 10 , 21.4 , 4 , 15.5 , 3 , 4.9 , 1 , 5.0 , 1 , 19 , - , style="text-align:left;" , Bonfim , style="background:#808080; color:white;", 35.7 , 8 , 28.7 , 6 , 15.5 , 3 , 8.4 , 1 , 8.0 , 1 , 19 , - , style="text-align:left;" ,

Campanhã Campanhã () is a Portuguese ''freguesia'' ("civil parish"), located in the city of Porto Porto (), also known in English language, English as Oporto, is the List of cities in Portugal, second largest city in Portugal, after Lisbon. It is th ...

, 26.7 , 5 , style="background:#FF66FF; color:white;", 40.2 , 9 , 11.5 , 2 , 10.3 , 2 , 6.4 , 1 , 19 , - , style="text-align:left;" ,

Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau e Vitória Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau e Vitória is a civil parish in the municipality of Porto, Portugal. It was formed in 2013 by the merger of the former parishes Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso Santo Ildefonso () is a former civi ...

, style="background:#808080; color:white;", 33.8 , 7 , 28.6 , 6 , 14.0 , 3 , 8.4 , 1 , 10.8 , 2 , 19 , - , style="text-align:left;" ,

Lordelo do Ouro e Massarelos Lordelo do Ouro e Massarelos is a civil parish in the municipality of Porto Porto (), also known in English language, English as Oporto, is the List of cities in Portugal, second largest city in Portugal, after Lisbon. It is the capital of the ...

, style="background:#808080; color:white;", 42.8 , 9 , 25.3 , 5 , 12.6 , 2 , 8.9 , 2 , 6.7 , 1 , 19 , - , style="text-align:left;" , Paranhos , 26.4 , 6 , 24.9 , 6 , style="background:#FF9966; color:white;", 30.6 , 7 , 6.9 , 1 , 6.5 , 1 , 21 , - , style="text-align:left;" ,

Ramalde Ramalde () is a Portuguese civil parish of the municipality of Porto Porto (), also known in English language, English as Oporto, is the List of cities in Portugal, second largest city in Portugal, after Lisbon. It is the capital of the Porto ...

, style="background:#808080; color:white;", 39.0 , 8 , 29.2 , 6 , 14.6 , 3 , 6.3 , 1 , 6.9 , 1 , 19 , - class="unsortable" style="background:#E9E9E9" , style="text-align:left;" , Total , style="background:#808080; color:white;", 35.7 , 53 , 28.1 , 42 , 17.4 , 23 , 7.6 , 9 , 7.2 , 8 , 135 , - , colspan=19 style="text-align:left;" , Source
Election Results

Maps

References

Notes

External links

{{Porto elections Local and regional elections in Portugal 2017 elections in Portugal Porto