The 2021 Porto local election was held on 26 September 2021 to elect the members of the

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. As expected, Rui Moreira, mayor since 2013, won a third term as Mayor of Porto, despite losing his majority in the city council. He beat the

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candidate, Tiago Barbosa Ribeiro, who lost about 10% of the votes and 1 city councillor, and the

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candidate, Vladimiro Feliz, who despite an increase in his vote share failed to achieve the goal of surpassing the PS. 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 ...

presented

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again and achieved positive results, registering a slight electoral growth to 7.5 percent. The Left Bloc, which presented Sérgio Aires as a candidate for mayor, gained a seat in the City Council, for the first time in its history.

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and CHEGA failed to elect any councilor.

Background

In the 2017 election, Rui Moreira's independent movement won an absolute majority of seats and 44.5% of the votes. The

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, led by Manuel Pizarro, finished with a strong second place, winning 28.6% of the votes and electing 4 councillors. The

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, in coalition with the People's Monarchist Party, which had Álvaro Almeida as its candidate, had its worst result in history in Porto, finishing in third place, with just over 10 percent of the votes and 1 councilor. Finally, the

obtained 5.9 percent, winning 1 councilor, while the Left Bloc obtained 5.3 percent of the votes and failed to gain any seats.

Electoral system

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

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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

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

Parties and candidates

Opinion polling

Polling

Results

Municipal Council

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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 ...

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, 17,426, , 17.24, , 6.9, , 2, , 1 , - , , 7,609, , 7.53, , 1.6, , 1, , 0 , - , , 6,323, , 6.25, , 0.9, , 1, , 1 , - , style="width: 9px;background:#202056;text-align:center" , , align=left, CHEGA , 2,980, , 2.95, , , , 0, , , - , , 2,819, , 2.79, , 0.9, , 0, , 0 , - , , 462, , 0.46, , , , 0, , , - , style="width: 9px;background-color:Purple;text-align:center" , , align=left,

Volt Portugal Volt Portugal is a eurofederalist political party in Portugal. It is affiliated with Volt Europa and was officially registered in June 2020 as the 25th party in the country. Volt has contested several local elections and participated in the 202 ...

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Porto 2021 election results

Municipal Assembly

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! 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;background-color:gray;text-align:center" , , align=left, Rui Moreira – Here there's Porto , 34,900, , 34.52, , 4.3, , 15, , 1 , - , , 19,386, , 19.18, , 8.0, , 8, , 3 , - , style="width: 9px;background-color:;text-align:center" , , align=left,

, 18,767, , 18.56, , , , 8, , 3 , - , , 8,497, , 8.41, , 1.6, , 3, , 0 , - , , 7,630, , 7.55, , 0.9, , 3, , 0 , - , , 3,732, , 3.69, , 0.9, , 1, , 0 , - , style="width: 9px;background:#202056;text-align:center" , , align=left, CHEGA , 3,440, , 3.40, , , , 1, , , - , , 633, , 0.63, , , , 0, , , - , , 275, , 0.27, , , , 0, , 0 , - , style="width: 9px;background:#6AD1E3;text-align:center" , , align=left,

Alliance An alliance is a relationship among people, groups, or sovereign state, states that have joined together for mutual benefit or to achieve some common purpose, whether or not an explicit agreement has been worked out among them. Members of an a ...

, 202, , 0.20, , , , 0, , , - , , 106, , 0.10, , , , 0, , , - , colspan=2 width="330" align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9", Total valid , width="50" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9", 97,568 , width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9", 96.52 , width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9", 0.2 , width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9", 39 , width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9", 0 , - , colspan=2, Blank ballots , 2,339, , 2.31, , 0.6, , colspan=3 rowspan=4, , - , colspan=2, Invalid ballots , 1,182, , 1.17, , 0.4 , - , colspan=2 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9", Total , width="50" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9", 101,089 , width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9", 100.00 , width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9", , - , colspan=2, Registered voters/turnout , , 207,129, , 48.80, , 4.9 , - , colspan=11 align=left , Source
Porto 2021 election results

Parish Assemblies

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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;", 32.2 , 7 , 21.5 , 5 , 18.0 , 4 , 7.3 , 1 , 8.9 , 2 , 4.0 , - , 3.0 , - , 19 , - , style="text-align:left;" , Paranhos , 22.1 , 5 , style="background:#FF9900; color:white;", 32.0 , 8 , 20.9 , 5 , 7.6 , 2 , 7.0 , 1 , 2.7 , - , 3.8 , - , 21 , - , style="text-align:left;" , Ramalde , style="background:#808080; color:white;", 31.4 , 7 , 20.2 , 5 , 22.2 , 5 , 7.9 , 1 , 6.8 , 1 , 3.6 , - , 3.8 , - , 19 , - class="unsortable" style="background:#E9E9E9" , style="text-align:left;" , Total , style="background:#808080; color:white;", 29.1 , 38 , 23.7 , 36 , 22.8 , 35 , 8.4 , 10 , 8.2 , 11 , 3.7 , 1 , 3.6 , 3 , 135 , - , colspan=19 style="text-align:left;" , Source
Election Results

References

Notes

External links

2021 local election results
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