The 2025 Lisbon local election will be held in September or October 2025 to elect the members of the

Lisbon City Council The Lisbon Municipal Chamber () is the administrative authority in the municipality of Lisbon. It has 24 freguesias in its area of jurisdiction and is based in the city of Lisbon, on the Lisbon District. These freguesias are: Ajuda; Alcântar ...

Carlos Moedas Carlos Manuel Félix Moedas (born 10 August 1970) is a Portuguese civil engineer, economist and politician of the Social Democratic Party (Portugal), Social Democratic Party (PSD), who is the current Mayor of Lisbon. From 2014 until 2019, Moeda ...

will seek a second term as

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, this time in a coalition with the

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, while the

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, led by

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, the Left Bloc,

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and PAN are currently discussing a coalition in order to defeat the center-right coalition.

Background

The 2021 Lisbon local election was the biggest surprise of that year's nationwide local elections as

, the candidate of the

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led by the

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, managed to be elected

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and put an end to 14 years of

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rule. Against all expectations, the centre-right coalition managed to retake the capital by winning 34.3 percent of the votes and 7 councillors. The

, in coalition with

, led by incumbent Mayor

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, narrowly lost, achieving 33.3% of the votes and 7 councillors. Meanwhile, the

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, led for the third time by João Ferreira, had a slight increase in its vote share to 10.5% of the votes and keeping their 2 councillors, while the Left Bloc led by

Beatriz Gomes Dias Beatriz Gebalina Pereira Gomes Dias is a Portuguese (born 26 March 1971) teacher, activist and politician who was born in Senegal. She was elected as a deputy to the Assembly of the Republic of Portugal, representing the Left Bloc, in 2019, but ...

won 6.2% of the votes and kept their sole seat. Despite his victory, Carlos Moedas had to seek understandings and deals with the other parties represented in the City Council in order to govern.

Electoral system

Each party or coalition must present a list of candidates. 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

Notes

References

External links

Interior Ministry election results page
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