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The 2024 European Parliament election in Portugal will elect the Portuguese delegation to the European Parliament from 2024 to 2029. This will be the ninth European Parliament election held in Portugal. The election will be held on Sunday, 9 June 2024. [1]
The voting method to be used, for the election of European members of parliament, is by proportional representation using the D'Hondt method. For the 2024 European Parliament elections, Portugal has 21 seats to fill. Members of Parliament are elected in a single constituency, corresponding to the entire national territory.
The proposed election day, 9 June, conflicted with the Portugal Day holiday on 10 June, plus several other local holidays. The government feared that an election close to so many holidays would suppress turnout [2] and attempted to find a compromise with EU countries to find an alternative date, but, no unanimity was reached and the election was then expected to be held on 9 June. [3]
On 4 April 2024, President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa confirmed that the election will be held on 9 June 2024. [4]
| European Parliament group | Mandates | National party | Mandates | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S&D Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats | 9 / 21 | PS Socialist Party | 9 / 21 | ||
| EPP European People's Party Group | 7 / 21 | PPD/PSD Social Democratic Party | 6 / 21 | ||
| CDS–PP CDS – People's Party | 1 / 21 | ||||
| The Left The Left in the European Parliament – GUE/NGL | 4 / 21 | BE Left Bloc | 2 / 21 | ||
| CDU Unitary Democratic Coalition | 2 / 21 | ||||
| Greens/EFA Greens–European Free Alliance | 1 / 21 | PAN People Animals Nature | 0 / 21 | ||
| Francisco Guerreiro [lower-alpha 2] Independent | 1 / 21 | ||||
| Source: European Parliament | |||||
This is a list of the parties that have announced they will run and of their main candidates.
| Party | European Party | Group | 2019 result | Top candidate | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PS | Socialist Party | PES | S&D | 33.4 | Marta Temido [5] | |
| AD | EPP | EPP | 28.1 [lower-alpha 1] | Sebastião Bugalho [6] | ||
| BE | Left Bloc | PEL | GUE/NGL | 9.8 | Catarina Martins [7] | |
| CDU | NI / EGP | GUE/NGL / Greens/EFA | 6.9 | João Oliveira [8] | ||
| PAN | People-Animals-Nature | EGP | Greens/EFA | 5.1 | Pedro Fidalgo Marques [9] | |
| L | LIVRE | EGP | Greens/EFA | 1.8 | Francisco Paupério [10] | |
| CH | CHEGA! | ID | ID | 1.5 | António Tânger Corrêa [11] | |
| IL | Liberal Initiative | ALDE Party | Renew | 0.9 | João Cotrim de Figueiredo [12] | |
| E | Rise Up | AENM | NI | 0.5 | Rui Fonseca e Castro [13] | |
| ADN | National Democratic Alternative | NI | NI | 0.5 [lower-alpha 3] | Joana Amaral Dias [14] | |
| RIR | React, Include, Recycle | − | − | − | Márcia Henriques [15] | |
| VP | Volt Portugal | Volt | − | − | Duarte Costa [16] | |
| ND | New Right | − | − | − | Ossanda Liber [17] | |
Polls that show their results without distributing those respondents who are undecided or said they would abstain from voting, are re-calculated by removing these numbers from the totals through a simple rule of three, in order to obtain results comparable to other polls and the official election results.
| Polling firm/Link | Fieldwork date | Sample size | Turnout |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | O | Lead | |||
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| S&D | EPP | EPP | NI | ID | Left | Left | G/EFA | G/EFA | Renew | ||||||
| Intercampus [lower-alpha 4] | 18–23 Apr 2024 | 605 | ? | 33.4 8 | 28.2 7 | 13.0 3 | 7.4 1 | 3.3 0 | 1.3 0 | 5.8 1 | 4.4 1 | 3.3 0 | 5.2 | ||
| Aximage | 12–16 Apr 2024 | 805 | 58.0 | 31.3 7/8 | 24.8 6 | 18.4 4 | 5.9 1 | 4.1 1 | 1.8 0 | 3.6 0/1 | 5.8 1 | 4.3 0 | 6.5 | ||
| 2024 legislative elections | 10 Mar 2024 | — | 59.8 | 28.0 (7) | 28.8 (8) | 18.1 (4) | 4.4 (1) | 3.2 (0) | 1.9 (0) | 3.2 (0) | 4.9 (1) | 7.5 (0) | 0.8 | ||
| Ipsos | 23 Feb–5 Mar 2024 | 2,000 | ? | 29.6 8 | 31.0 8 | 3.4 0 | – | 14.2 3 | 4.4 1 | 2.3 0 | 2.1 0 | 3.6 0 | 4.5 1 | 4.9 0 | 1.4 |
| 2022 legislative elections | 30 Jan 2022 | — | 51.5 | 41.4 (10) | 29.1 (7) | 1.6 (0) | 0.0 (0) | 7.2 (1) | 4.4 (1) | 4.3 (1) | 1.6 (0) | 1.3 (0) | 4.9 (1) | 4.7 (0) | 11.5 |
| 2019 legislative elections | 6 Oct 2019 | — | 48.6 | 36.3 (10) | 27.8 (7) | 4.2 (1) | 0.2 (0) | 1.3 (0) | 9.5 (2) | 6.3 (1) | 3.3 (0) | 1.1 (0) | 1.3 (0) | 8.8 (0) | 8.5 |
| 2019 EP election | 26 May 2019 | — | 30.7 | 33.4 9 | 21.9 6 | 6.2 1 | 1.5 0 | 9.8 2 | 6.9 2 | 5.1 1 | 1.8 0 | 0.9 0 | 12.5 0 | 11.5 | |
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