The 2002 Portuguese legislative election took place on 17 March. The election renewed all 230 members of the Assembly of the Republic.
The Portuguese local elections of 2009 took place on 11 October. The elections consisted of three separate elections in the 308 Portuguese municipalities,the election for the Municipal Chambers,whose winner is elected president,another election for the Municipal Assembly and a last one for the lower-level Parish Assembly,whose winner is elected parish president. This last was held separately in the more than 4,000 parishes around the country. The elections took place just two weeks after the 2009 legislative election.
The 2019 Portuguese legislative election was held on 6 October 2019. All 230 seats to the Assembly of the Republic were contested.
Early legislative elections were held on 30 January 2022 in Portugal to elect members of the Assembly of the Republic to the 15th Legislature of the Third Portuguese Republic. All 230 seats to the Assembly of the Republic were up for election.
Local elections in Portugal were held on 26 September 2021. The election consisted of three separate elections in the 308 Portuguese municipalities:the election for the Municipal Chamber,whose winner is elected mayor;another election for the Municipal Assembly;and an election for the Parish Assembly,whose winner is elected parish president. This last one was held separately in the more than 3,000 parishes around the country. In the 2021 election,12.3% of incumbent mayors,38 to be precise,were barred from running for another term:23 from the PS,11 from the PSD,3 from CDU and one from the CDS–PP.
Inês de Saint-Maurice Esteves de Medeiros Victorino de Almeida is a Portuguese actress and politician. She won a Golden Globe in 1996. A member of the Socialist Party,she was a deputy in the Assembly of the Republic from 2009 to 2016,and mayor of Almada from 2017.
Celeste Correia is a naturalized Portuguese teacher and politician,originally from the former Portuguese colony of Cape Verde. She represented the Portuguese Socialist Party (PS) as a member of the Assembly of the Republic between 1995 and 2011 and,again,from 2014 to 2015.
Maria Helena do Rego da Costa Salema Roseta is a Portuguese architect,specialising in improvements to poorer neighbourhoods,and a politician who was a member of the Assembly of the Republic and President of the Lisbon Municipal Assembly and Mayor of Cascais.
Beatriz Gomes Dias is a Portuguese teacher,activist and politician who was born in Senegal. She was elected as a deputy to the Assembly of the Republic of Portugal,representing the Left Bloc,in 2019,but was not re-elected in the 2022 election. In the 2021 local elections,she was elected member of the Lisbon City Council.
Pedro Nuno de Oliveira Santos is a Portuguese economist and politician,who is the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party. Santos previously held positions in the Portuguese Government under António Costa,first as Secretary of State for Parliamentary Affairs,from November 2015 to February 2019,and afterwards as Minister of Infrastructure and Housing,from February 2019 to January 2023.
Susana Correia is a Portuguese politician. As a member of the Portuguese Socialist Party (PS),she has been a deputy in the Portuguese Assembly of the Republic since 2019.
Joana SáPereira is a Portuguese politician. As a member of the Portuguese Socialist Party (PS),she has been a deputy in the Portuguese Assembly of the Republic since 2019.
Palmira Maciel is a Portuguese politician. As a member of the Portuguese Socialist Party (PS),she has been a deputy in the Portuguese Assembly of the Republic since 2015,representing Braga.
Ana Sofia Antunes is a Portuguese politician who,from 2015 to 2024,held the government position of Secretary of State for the Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities. Antunes was born blind.
Rosário Gambôa is a Portuguese politician. As a member of the Portuguese Socialist Party (PS),she has been a deputy in the Portuguese Assembly of the Republic since 2019,representing Porto. Prior to that,she was president of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto (IPP),a tertiary-level institute with 15,000 students.
Eurídice Pereira is a Portuguese politician who was trained in sociology. As a member of the Portuguese Socialist Party (PS),she was first elected as a deputy in the Portuguese Assembly of the Republic in 2009,representing Setúbal,and has been re-elected in every national election since then,including the most recent in January 2022. She has also held many other administrative and political positions.
Maria Antónia Moreno Areias de Almeida Santos is a Portuguese politician. As a member of the Portuguese Socialist Party (PS),she was briefly a deputy in the Portuguese Assembly of the Republic during the 8th legislature. She returned to the Assembly in 2005 and has been re-elected in every national election since then,including the most recent in January 2022. She has served as chair of the Assembly's Health Committee.
Joana Rodrigues Mortágua is a Portuguese politician. A member of the Left Bloc,she has been a deputy in the Portuguese Assembly of the Republic since 2015,representing Setúbal.
The 2023 Portuguese Socialist Party leadership election was held on 15 and 16 December 2023. The leadership ballot was called after Prime Minister and Socialist Party Secretary-General António Costa resigned from office on 7 November 2023. The winner of this election will lead the Socialist Party into the 2024 legislative election.
Lisbon is one of the 22 multi-member constituencies of the Assembly of the Republic,the national legislature of Portugal. The constituency was established in 1976 when the Assembly of the Republic was established by the constitution following the restoration of democracy. It is conterminous with the district of Lisbon. The constituency currently elects 48 of the 230 members of the Assembly of the Republic using the closed party-list proportional representation electoral system. At the 2022 legislative election it had 1,919,958 registered electors.
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