2024 Portuguese Social Democratic Party leadership election

2024 Social Democratic Party leadership election

←  2022 6 September 2024
Turnout	39.7% 20.8 pp
Candidate Luís Montenegro Popular vote 16,198 Percentage 97.5%
Leader before election Luís Montenegro Elected Leader Luís Montenegro

The 2024 Portuguese Social Democratic Party leadership election was held on 6 September 2024, with a party national congress that was expected to be held in Braga on 21 and 22 September 2024, ^[1] but it was postponed to 19 and 20 October 2024 due to the September 2024 wildfire crisis. ^[2] This leadership election was held with Luís Montenegro holding the office of Prime Minister, following his win in the 2024 March early legislative election. ^[3]

Luís Montenegro was the sole candidate on the ballot, with around 42,000 party members registered to vote, just 47 percent of the more than 90,000 active party members. ^[4] Luís Montenegro was re-elected as party leader with 97.5 percent of all votes cast, including blank and invalid ballots, with a 40 percent turnout. ^{[5] [6]}

Candidates

Name	Born	Experience	Announcement date	Ref.
Luís Montenegro	16 February 1973 (age 51) Porto	Prime Minister (since 2024) President of the Social Democratic Party (since 2022) Member of Parliament for Lisbon (2024–2025) Leader of the Social Democratic Parliamentary Caucus (2011–2017) Member of Parliament for Aveiro (2002–2017)	9 October 2023	[7]

Declined

• Carlos Moedas – Mayor of Lisbon (since 2021); former European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation (2014–2019) ^[8]
• Pedro Passos Coelho – former Prime Minister (2011–2015); former PSD leader (2010–2018) ^[9]

Opinion polls

Hypothetical polling

All voters

Polling firm	Fieldwork date	Sample size				Others/ Undecided	Lead
			Montenegro	Moedas	Passos Coelho
CESOP–UCP	15–24 Nov 2023	1,102	18.0	24.0	37.0	21.0	13.0
Aximage	8–9 Nov 2023	516	25.0	18.0	24.8	32.2	0.2
Intercampus	7–11 Aug 2023	607	23.9	35.7	—	40.4	11.8
			13.8	26.2	32.8	27.2	6.6

PSD voters

Polling firm	Fieldwork date	Sample size				Others/ Undecided	Lead
			Montenegro	Moedas	Passos Coelho
CESOP–UCP	15–24 Nov 2023	1,102	15.0	19.0	57.0	9.0	38.0

Results

Summary of the September 2024 PSD leadership election results

Candidate		6 September 2024
		Votes	%
	Luís Montenegro	16,198	97.46
Total		16,198
Valid votes		16,198	97.46
Invalid and blank ballots		423	2.54
Votes cast / turnout		16,621	39.70
Registered voters		41,863
Sources: [5] [6]

Vote share Luís Montenegro   97.46% Blank/Invalid   2.54%

See also

• Elections in Portugal
• List of political parties in Portugal

References

1. "PSD marca eleições diretas para 6 de setembro". Renascença (in European Portuguese). 2024-07-08. Retrieved 2024-07-08.
2. "PSD adia o congresso que tinha agendado para este fim-de-semana". Público (in European Portuguese). 2024-09-17. Retrieved 2024-09-18.
3. "Legislativas. AD vence à tangente e Montenegro apela ao diálogo". RTP (in European Portuguese). 2024-03-11. Retrieved 2024-04-01.
4. "Oito anos depois PSD volta a ter com Montenegro candidato único à liderança do partido". 24Sapo (in European Portuguese). 2024-08-26. Retrieved 2024-08-26.
5. "Eleição Direta do Presidente da CPN". psd.pt (in Portuguese). Retrieved 7 September 2023.
6. "Luís Montenegro reeleito presidente do PSD com 97,45% dos votos". SIC Notícias (in European Portuguese). 2024-09-07. Retrieved 2024-09-07.
7. "Montenegro anuncia recandidatura à liderança do PSD após eleições europeias". www.dn.pt (in European Portuguese). 2023-10-09. Retrieved 2023-12-01.
8. "PSD. Cara ou coroa após as Europeias?". Jornal Sol (in European Portuguese). 2023-01-24. Retrieved 2023-10-07.
9. ""Estou na reserva". Passos Coelho já avalia regresso". Expresso (in European Portuguese). 2023-10-07. Retrieved 2023-10-07.

External links

• PSD Official website