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The 2025 Porto local election will be held on 12 October 2025 to elect the members for Porto City Council, Porto Municipal Assembly and the city's 7 parish assemblies.
This election is expected to be extremely competitive after the 3 mandates of the liberal-backed Independent Rui Moreira, which is barred from running for a 4th term, with both the Socialists and Social Democrats hoping to win the second major city in Portugal, [1] with Moreira's independent movement also running deputy mayor Filipe Araújo as a candidate, [2] despite not having the endorsement of Rui Moreira himself. [3]
The Socialist Party has already chosen former Health minister Manuel Pizarro as their candidate, while the Social Democratic Party formed a coalition with the CDS – People's Party and the Liberal Initiative with former minister of Parliament Affairs Pedro Duarte as their candidate. [4]
In the 2021 election, Rui Moreira, mayor since 2013, won a third term as Mayor of Porto, winning 40.7% of the votes and 6 seats, losing his majority in the city council. The Socialist candidate, Tiago Barbosa Ribeiro, won 18.0% of the vote and 3 seats, while the Social Democratic candidate, Vladimiro Feliz, won 17.2% of the votes and 2 seats. [5]
The Unitary Democratic Coalition, led by Ilda Figueiredo, won 7.5% of the votes and 1 seat, while the Left Bloc, which presented Sérgio Aires as a candidate for mayor, gained a seat in the City Council, for the first time in its history, achieving 6.3% of the votes. [6]
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. [7] [8]
Party/Coalition | Political position | Candidate | 2021 result | Ref. | |||
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Votes (%) | Seats | ||||||
FàP | Do it as Porto [b] Fazer à Porto | Centre-right to right-wing | Filipe Araújo | 40.7% | 6 / 13 | [2] | |
PS | Socialist Party [c] Partido Socialista | Centre-left | Manuel Pizarro | 18.0% | 3 / 13 | [9] | |
OPSN | Porto is us O Porto somos nós PSD, IL, CDS–PP | Centre-right to right-wing | Pedro Duarte | 17.2% | 2 / 13 | [10] [11] | |
CDU | Unitary Democratic Coalition Coligação Democrática Unitária PCP, PEV | Left-wing to far-left | Diana Ferreira | 7.5% | 1 / 13 | [12] | |
BE | Left Bloc Bloco de Esquerda | Left-wing to far-left | Sérgio Aires | 6.3% | 1 / 13 | [13] | |
CH | Enough! Chega! | Far-right | Miguel Côrte-Real | 3.0% | 0 / 13 | [14] | |
L | FREE LIVRE | Left-wing | Hélder Sousa | 0.5% | 0 / 13 | [15] | |
VP | Volt Portugal Volt Portugal | Centre to centre-left | Guilherme Jorge | 0.4% | 0 / 13 | [16] | |
NC | Porto First – Nuno Cardoso Porto Primeiro – Nuno Cardoso NC, PPM | Centre to centre-right | Nuno Cardoso | 0.2% | 0 / 13 | [17] [18] | |
ADN | National Democratic Alternative Alternativa Democrática Nacional | Far-right | Frederico Duarte Carvalho | — | — | [19] | |
PLS | Liberal Social Party Partido Liberal Social | Centre | Luís Tinoco Azevedo | — | — | [20] | |
PTP | Portuguese Labour Party Partido Trabalhista Português | Left-wing | Maria Amélia Costa | — | — | [20] | |
AA | Porto with Porto Porto com Porto | Centre | António Araújo | — | — | [21] |
Party/Coalition | Political position | Candidate | 2021 result | Ref. | |||
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Votes (%) | Seats | ||||||
RIR | React, Include, Recycle Reagir, Incluir, Reciclar | Centre | Vitorino Silva | — | — | [22] [23] | |
ND | New Right Nova Direita | Right-wing | Aníbal Pinto | — | — | [24] [25] |
Party or alliance | Original slogan | English translation | Refs | |
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FàP | « Fazer à Porto » | "Do it as Porto" | [26] | |
PS | « À moda do Porto » | "Porto style" | [27] | |
OPSN | « O Porto somos nós » | "Porto is us" | [28] | |
CDU | « Porto para todos » | "Porto for all" | [29] | |
BE | « Estamos aqui » | "We are here" | [30] | |
CH | TBA | TBA |
Polling firm/Link | Fieldwork date | Sample size | FàP | OPSN | PS | CDU | BE | CH | L | NC PPM | O | Lead | |||
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IL | CDS | PSD | |||||||||||||
ICS/ISCTE | 17 Jun–2 Jul 2025 | 805 | 5 0 | 33 5 | 36 6 | 4 0 | 3 0 | 12 2 | 1 0 | 2 0 | 4 0 | 3 | |||
2025 Legislative election | 18 May 2025 | — | — | 8.1 (1) | 35.1 [e] (5) | 23.7 (4) | 3.6 (0) | 2.9 (0) | 14.1 (2) | 7.2 (1) | — | 5.2 (0) | 11.4 | ||
2024 EP election | 9 Jun 2024 | — | — | 12.7 (2) | 31.2 [e] (4) | 27.6 (4) | 4.4 (0) | 6.6 (1) | 6.6 (1) | 6.5 (1) | — | 4.4 (0) | 3.6 | ||
2024 Legislative election | 10 Mar 2024 | — | — | 6.8 (1) | 34.3 [e] (6) | 28.3 (4) | 3.4 (0) | 5.7 (1) | 10.0 (1) | 5.6 (0) | — | 5.9 (0) | 6.0 | ||
2022 Legislative election | 30 Jan 2022 | — | — | 7.8 (1) | 2.0 (0) | 34.7 (5) | 35.1 (6) | 4.7 (0) | 6.0 (1) | 3.3 (0) | 2.2 (0) | — | 4.2 (0) | 0.4 | |
2021 local election | 26 Sep 2021 | — | 40.7 6 | 17.2 2 | 18.0 3 | 7.5 1 | 6.3 1 | 3.0 0 | 0.5 0 | 0.2 0 | 6.6 0 | 22.7 | |||