2009 Portuguese local elections
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The Portuguese local elections of 2009 took place on 11 October. The elections consisted of three separate elections in the 308
The elections resulted almost in a tie between the Socialist Party and the Social Democratic Party, in which the Social Democrats lost almost 20 municipalities and also lost a considerable number of councilors. The Socialists, despite losing in number of municipal chambers, were the party that most councilors elected, a situation that has not happened since 1993 when in these elections the PSD elected more councilors than the PS but the PS elected more mayors than the PSD. The Socialists won also a decisive victory in Lisbon where the incumbent mayor, António Costa, defeated the former mayor and Prime Minister Pedro Santana Lopes by a considerable margin, 44% to 39%.
The
On the left, the
.The election was again marked by several victories of independent candidates, most of them former Socialist, Social Democratic candidates who were expelled or given no confidence by their respective parties and, even so, became mayors. The best known were
Turnout in these election was the lowest in local election, as only 59% of the electorate cast a ballot, although the number of ballots cast in the election was the highest ever in local elections.
Parties
The main political forces involved in the election were:
- Left Bloc (BE)
- People's Party(CDS–PP) (only in some municipalities)1
- Democratic Unity Coalition(CDU)
- Socialist Party (PS)
- Social Democratic Party (PSD) (only in some municipalities)1
1 The PSD and the CDS–PP also formed coalitions in several municipalities with the Earth Party (MPT) and the People's Monarchist Party (PPM).
Opinion polling
Voter turnout
The table below shows voter turnout throughout election day.
Turnout | Time | ||||||||
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12:00 | 16:00 | 19:00 | |||||||
2005 | 2009 | ± | 2005 | 2009 | ± | 2005 | 2009 | ± | |
Total | 21.35% | 21.23% | 0.12 pp | 48.00% | 45.30% | 2.70 pp | 60.94% | 59.03% | 1.91 pp |
Sources[1][2] |
Results
Municipal Councils
National summary of votes and seats
Parties | Votes | % | ±pp swing | Candidacies | Councillors | Mayors | ||||
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Total | ± | Total | ± | |||||||
Socialist | 2,087,831 | 37.72 | 1.8 | 921 | 29 | 132 | 23 | |||
Social Democratic | 1,271,410 | 22.97 | 5.3 | 666 | 76 | 117 | 21 | |||
People's
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540,053 | 9.76 | 1.2 | 157 | 21 | 19 | 1 | |||
Democratic Unity Coalition
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537,329 | 9.71 | 1.2 | 174 | 29 | 28 | 4 | |||
Independents | 222,494 | 4.02 | 1.6 | 67 | 31 | 7 | 0 | |||
People's | 170,772 | 3.09 | 0.0 | 31 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |||
Left Bloc | 164,396 | 2.97 | 0.0 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 0 | |||
163,966 | 2.96 | — | 22 | — | 1 | — | ||||
CDS–PP / PPM
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99,811 | 1.80 | 0.1 | 17 | 2 | 1 | 0 | |||
69,638 | 1.26 | 0.1 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 0 | ||||
Portuguese Workers' Communist
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14,242 | 0.26 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Earth | 11,196 | 0.20 | 0.2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |||
New Democracy | 6,882 | 0.12 | 0.1 | 1 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | |||
Hope for Portugal Movement | 1,953 | 0.04 | — | 0 | — | 0 | — | |||
CDS–PP / MPT
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1,709 | 0.03 | 0.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
People's Monarchist | 1,466 | 0.03 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Merit and Society Movement
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1,437 | 0.03 | — | 0 | — | 0 | — | |||
National Renovator
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1,204 | 0.02 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Labour | 758 | 0.01 | — | 0 | — | 0 | — | |||
People's / Earth
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165 | 0.00 | — | 0 | — | 0 | — | |||
People's / People's Monarchist
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156 | 0.00 | — | 0 | — | 0 | — | |||
Total valid | 5,371,842 | 97.05 | 1.3 | — | 2,078 | 32 | 308 | 0 | ||
Blank ballots | 94,862 | 1.71 | 0.9 | |||||||
Invalid ballots | 68,400 | 1.24 | 0.5 | |||||||
Total | 5,535,104 | 100.00 | ||||||||
Registered voters/turnout | 9,376,707 | 59.03 | 1.9 | |||||||
Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições Archived 2014-02-23 at the Wayback Machine, Autárquicas 2009 Resultados Oficiais |
Municipality map
City control
The following table lists party control in all district capitals, as well as in municipalities above 100,000 inhabitants. Population estimates from the 2001 Census.[3]
Municipal Assemblies
National summary of votes and seats
Parties | Votes | % | ±pp swing | Candidacies | Mandates | |||||
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Total | ± | |||||||||
Socialist | 2,031,783 | 36.70 | 1.0 | 2,855 | 61 | |||||
Social Democratic | 1,226,358 | 22.15 | 4.8 | 2,124 | 292 | |||||
Democratic Unity Coalition
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586,118 | 10.59 | 1.1 | 651 | 71 | |||||
People's
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518,198 | 9.61 | 1.1 | 522 | 115 | |||||
Left Bloc | 229,414 | 4.14 | 0.2 | 139 | 25 | |||||
Independents | 215,794 | 3.90 | 1.8 | 224 | 103 | |||||
People's | 195,823 | 3.54 | 0.2 | 253 | 63 | |||||
162,092 | 2.93 | — | 65 | — | ||||||
CDS–PP / PPM
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98,349 | 1.78 | 0.1 | 60 | 13 | |||||
63,584 | 1.15 | 0.1 | 22 | 5 | ||||||
Portuguese Workers' Communist
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7,432 | 0.13 | 0.1 | 0 | 1 | |||||
New Democracy | 7,347 | 0.13 | 0.1 | 5 | 4 | |||||
Hope for Portugal Movement | 4,906 | 0.09 | — | 0 | — | |||||
National Renovator
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1,741 | 0.03 | — | 0 | — | |||||
CDS–PP / MPT
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1,627 | 0.03 | 0.0 | 6 | 0 | |||||
Merit and Society Movement
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1,591 | 0.03 | — | 0 | — | |||||
People's Monarchist | 1,300 | 0.02 | 0.0 | 5 | 0 | |||||
Labour | 828 | 0.01 | — | 0 | — | |||||
People's / Earth
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257 | 0.00 | — | 0 | — | |||||
People's / People's Monarchist
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205 | 0.00 | — | 1 | — | |||||
Total valid | 5,354,747 | 96.73 | 1.3 | — | 6,946 | 60 | ||||
Blank ballots | 110,888 | 2.00 | 0.9 | |||||||
Invalid ballots | 70,047 | 1.27 | 0.4 | |||||||
Total | 5,535,682 | 100.00 | ||||||||
Registered voters/turnout | 9,376,438 | 59.04 | 1.9 | |||||||
Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições, Autárquicas 2009 Resultados Oficiais |
Parish Assemblies
National summary of votes and seats
Parties | Votes | % | ±pp swing | Candidacies | Mandates | Presidents | ||||
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Total | ± | Total | ± | |||||||
Socialist | 2,003,533 | 36.27 | 0.8 | 13,736 | 253 | 1,577 | 59 | |||
Social Democratic | 1,238,620 | 22.43 | 4.2 | 11,113 | 1,338 | 1,530 | 193 | |||
Democratic Unity Coalition
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606,136 | 10.97 | 1.1 | 2,266 | 289 | 213 | 31 | |||
People's
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508,043 | 9.20 | 1.6 | 2,911 | 847 | 312 | 93 | |||
Independents | 338,003 | 6.12 | 1.6 | 2,673 | 473 | 332 | 40 | |||
Left Bloc | 163,423 | 2.96 | 0.3 | 235 | 6 | 4 | 1 | |||
161,398 | 2.92 | — | 384 | — | 31 | — | ||||
People's | 128,443 | 2.33 | 0.4 | 693 | 129 | 53 | 12 | |||
CDS–PP / PPM
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96,936 | 1.76 | 0.2 | 405 | 0 | 36 | 2 | |||
62,228 | 1.13 | 0.7 | 168 | 48 | 15 | 4 | ||||
Earth | 8,400 | 0.15 | 0.1 | 47 | 24 | 2 | 1 | |||
Portuguese Workers' Communist
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3,368 | 0.06 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Merit and Society Movement
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1,803 | 0.03 | — | 0 | — | 0 | — | |||
New Democracy | 1,658 | 0.03 | 0.1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |||
CDS–PP / MPT
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1,532 | 0.03 | 0.0 | 29 | 3 | 2 | 0 | |||
People's Monarchist | 716 | 0.01 | 0.1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |||
People's / Earth
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542 | 0.01 | — | 3 | — | 0 | — | |||
Labour | 336 | 0.01 | — | 0 | — | 0 | — | |||
National Renovator
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280 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
People's / People's Monarchist
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152 | 0.00 | — | 3 | — | 0 | — | |||
Total valid | 5,325,550 | 96.41 | 1.1 | — | 34,672 | — | 4,107 | — | ||
Blank ballots | 116,243 | 2.10 | 0.7 | |||||||
Invalid ballots | 81,523 | 1.48 | 0.4 | |||||||
Total | 5,523,316 | 100.00 | ||||||||
Registered voters/turnout | 9,360,875 | 59.00 | 1.9 | |||||||
Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições, Autárquicas 2009 Resultados Oficiais |
See also
References
- ^ "Autárquicas 2009 - Afluência". eleicoes.mai.gov.pt/autarquicas2009/index.html (in Portuguese). Ministry of Internal Administration. Retrieved 9 June 2023.
- ^ "Autárquicas 2005 - Afluência". eleicoes.mai.gov.pt/Autarquicas2005/ (in Portuguese). Ministry of Internal Administration. Retrieved 9 June 2023.
- ^ "Instituto Nacional de Estatística (Recenseamentos Gerais da População)". www.ine.pt (in Portuguese). Statistics Portugal. Retrieved 17 July 2021.
Notes
- ^ In 2005, the PSD was reelected but there was a by-election in 2007 that was won by the PS and, thus, the PS controlled Lisbon city at the time of the 2009 elections.