2025 Amadora local election

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2025 Amadora local elections

←  2021 12 October 2025
All 11 Councillors in the Amadora City Council 6 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	49.4% 6.7 pp
First party Second party   Leader Vítor Ferreira Suzana Garcia Party PS PSD Alliance Amadora Resolves [a] Last election 7 seats, 43.9% 3 seats, 25.2% [b] Seats won 4 4 Seat change 3 1 Popular vote 23,257 21,147 Percentage 33.0% 30.0% Swing 10.9 pp 5.5 pp   Third party Fourth party   Leader Rui Paulo Sousa João Pimenta Lopes Party CH PCP Alliance CDU Last election 0 seats, 5.4% 1 seat, 9.9% Seats won 2 1 Seat change 2 0 Popular vote 12,406 4,933 Percentage 17.6% 7.0% Swing 12.2 pp 2.9 pp
Mayor before election Vítor Ferreira PS Elected mayor Vítor Ferreira PS

The 2025 Amadora local election was held on 12 October 2025 in the municipality of Amadora, Portugal, to elect the members for Amadora City Council, Amadora Municipal Assembly and the city's six parish assemblies. ^[1]

The Socialist Party chose incumbent mayor Vítor Ferreira as their candidate, while the Social Democratic Party renewed their coalition with the CDS – People's Party and other smaller parties, repeating their 2021 candidate, Suzana Garcia. The Unitary Democratic Coalition ran MEP João Pimenta Lopes, while Chega announced MP Rui Paulo Sousa as their mayoral candidate. The Left Bloc has as candidate former MEP Anabela Rodrigues ^[2] and the Liberal Initiative (IL) had Eduardo Conceição as their mayoral candidate. ^[3]

Vítor Ferreira (PS) won a full term as mayor, although by a narrow margin, and losing more than 10% of share, plus the majority in the municipal council, held by the party since 2001. The PSD/CDS led-coalition achieved its best result in more than 40 years in a local election in Amadora, with 30% of the votes and tying with the PS in number of councillors, each with four. Chega surged to almost 18% of the votes, while CDU scored its worst result ever, just 7% of the votes and 1 councillor. ^[4] Turnout stood at 49.4%, the highest share since 1997.

Background

Incumbent Mayor Vítor Ferreira, from the Socialist Party (PS), became mayor in July 2024, after the then mayor, Carla Tavares, who had been elected MEP in the 2024 European elections, resigned from office. ^[5] Carla Tavares was in office for 11 years, having been first elected in 2013, and reelected in both 2017 and 2021. ^[6]

In the 2021 election, the PS held on to their majority with nearly 44% of the votes and elected 7 councillors. The PSD/CDS coalition, led by Suzana Garcia gathered 24.6% of the votes and 3 councillors, the best showing for the coalition in 20 years. ^[7] On the other hand, the Unitary Democratic Coalition (CDU), led by António Borges, achieved their worst result ever in Amadora, just 9.9% and 1 councillor. Just for comparison, 8 years prior, in the 2013 elections, CDU polled 2nd with 19% of the votes. Chega (CH) and the Left Bloc (BE) tied at around 5% and failed to win any councillor.

Electoral system

Each party or coalition must present a list of candidates. The winner of the most voted list for the municipal council is automatically elected mayor, similar to first-past-the-post (FPTP). The lists are closed and the seats in each municipality are apportioned according to the D'Hondt method. Unlike in national legislative elections, independent lists are allowed to run. ^{[8] [9]}

Parties and candidates

Party/Coalition					Political position	Candidate	2021 result		Ref.
							Votes (%)	Seats
	PS	Socialist Party Partido Socialista			Centre-left	Vítor Ferreira	43.9%	7 / 11	[2]
	AR Amadora Resolves (Amadora Resolve)		PPD/PSD	Social Democratic Party Partido Social Democrata	Center-right	Suzana Garcia	24.6%	2 / 11	[10] [2]
			CDS–PP	CDS – People's Party CDS – Partido Popular	Center-right to right-wing			1 / 11
			MPT	Earth Party Partido da Terra	Center-right			0 / 11
			PPM	People's Monarchist Party Partido Popular Monárquico	Right-wing		0.6%	0 / 11
			RIR	React, Include, Recycle Reagir, Incluir, Reciclar	Centre			0 / 11
	CDU	Unitary Democratic Coalition Coligação Democrática Unitária PCP, PEV			Left-wing to far-left	João Pimenta Lopes	9.9%	1 / 11	[2]
	CH	Enough! Chega!			Far-right	Rui Paulo Sousa	5.4%	0 / 11	[2]
	BE	Left Bloc Bloco de Esquerda			Left-wing to far-left	Anabela Rodrigues	5.3%	0 / 11	[2]
	IL	Liberal Initiative Iniciativa Liberal			Centre-right to right-wing	Eduardo Conceição	2.8%	0 / 11	[3]
	L	FREE LIVRE			Left-wing	Hugo Lourenço	—	—	[2]

Opinion polling

Polling firm/Link	Fieldwork date	Sample size	PS	AR				CDU	CH	BE	IL	L	O	Lead
				PSD	CDS	PPM	RIR
2025 local election [11]	12 Oct 2025	—	33.0 4	30.0 4				7.0 1	17.6 2	1.8 0	3.5 0	3.6 0	3.5 0	3.0
2025 Legislative election	18 May 2025	—	28.8 (4)	24.0 (3)		0.1 (0)	0.1 (0)	4.1 (0)	21.2 (3)	2.7 (0)	6.1 (0)	6.3 (1)	6.6 (0)	4.8
2024 EP election	9 Jun 2024	—	36.7 (6)	22.3 (3)			0.1 (0)	5.5 (0)	10.8 (1)	5.3 (0)	8.9 (1)	4.9 (0)	5.5 (0)	14.4
2024 Legislative election	10 Mar 2024	—	33.9 (5)	21.4 (3)			0.2 (0)	4.3 (0)	17.1 (3)	5.4 (0)	5.5 (0)	4.9 (0)	7.3 (0)	12.5
2022 Legislative election	30 Jan 2022	—	47.5 (7)	19.4 (3)	1.3 (0)	—	0.3 (0)	5.8 (0)	7.7 (1)	5.0 (0)	5.7 (0)	2.0 (0)	5.3 (0)	28.1
2021 local election	26 Sep 2021	—	43.9 7	24.6 3		0.6 0		9.9 1	5.4 0	5.3 0	2.8 0	—	7.5 0	19.3

Results

Municipal Council

Summary of the 12 October 2025 Amadora City Council elections results

1 4 4 2
Parties		Votes	%	±pp swing	Councillors
					Total	±
	Socialist	23,257	33.00	10.9	4	3
	PSD / CDS–PP / PPM / MPT / RIR	21,147	30.01	5.5	4	1
	CHEGA	12,406	17.60	12.2	2	2
	Unitary Democratic Coalition	4,933	7.00	2.9	1	0
	LIVRE	2,513	3.57	—	0	—
	Liberal Initiative	2,480	3.52	0.7	0	0
	Left Bloc	1,279	1.81	3.5	0	0
	National Democratic Alternative	458	0.65	—	0	—
Total valid		68,473	97.16	1.2	11	0
Blank ballots		1,133	1.61	0.8
Invalid ballots		869	1.23	0.4
Total		70,475	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		142,579	49.43	6.7
Source: [11]

Municipal Assembly

Summary of the 12 October 2025 Amadora Municipal Assembly elections
results

2 1 12 10 1 7
Parties		Votes	%	±pp swing	Seats
					Total	±
	Socialist	22,195	31.68	9.1	12	3
	PSD / CDS–PP / PPM / MPT / RIR	19,468	27.79	3.5	10	1
	CHEGA	13,328	19.02	12.2	7	5
	Unitary Democratic Coalition	5,510	7.86	3.3	2	2
	LIVRE	3,363	4.80	—	1	—
	Liberal Initiative	2,543	3.63	—	1	—
	Left Bloc	1,540	2.20	4.6	0	2
Total valid		67,947	96.98	1.6	33	0
Blank ballots		1,269	1.81	1.2
Invalid ballots		847	1.21	0.4
Total		70,063	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		142,579	49.14	6.4
Source: [12]

Parish Assemblies

Results of the 12 October 2025 Amadora Parish Assembly elections

Parish	%	S	%	S	%	S	%	S	%	S	Total S
	PS		AR		CH		CDU		L
Águas Livres	31.1	6	27.3	6	18.5	4	9.5	2	4.5	1	19
Alfragide	38.5	6	31.5	5	14.4	2	5.1	-			13
Encosta do Sol	38.6	9	22.4	5	20.1	4	7.9	1	3.5	-	19
Falagueira-Venda Nova	40.2	6	22.9	3	17.2	3	9.6	1			13
Mina de Água	30.3	7	28.9	6	21.4	4	7.2	1	4.3	1	19
Venteira	29.8	6	30.1	7	16.9	3	8.9	2	5.4	1	19
Total	33.7	40	27.4	32	18.6	20	8.1	7	3.4	3	102
Source: [13]

Notes

1. Supported by the Social Democratic Party (PSD), CDS – People's Party (CDS–PP), People's Monarchist Party (PPM), Earth Party (MPT) and React, Include, Recycle (RIR).
2. Sum of the results of the 2021 PSD/CDS–PP/Alliance/MPT/PDR coalition (24.6%) with the 2021 PPM/RIR coalition (0.6%).

References

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3. "Habitação não é favor, é base de dignidade e mobilidade social". Facebook Iniciativa Liberal Amadora (in Portuguese). 26 August 2025. Retrieved 27 August 2025.
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