The Socialist Party is a social-democratic political party in Portugal. It was founded on 19 April 1973 in the German city of Bad Münstereifel by militants who were at the time with the Portuguese Socialist Action. The PS is a member of the Socialist International,Progressive Alliance and Party of European Socialists,and has eight members in the European Parliament within the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats group during the 10th European Parliament.
The 1987 Portuguese legislative election took place on 19 July. The election renewed all 250 members of the Assembly of the Republic.
Local elections were held in Portugal on 9 October 2005. The election consisted of three separate elections in the 308 Portuguese municipalities,the election for the Municipal Chambers,whose winner is automatically elected mayor,similar to first-past-the-post (FPTP),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.
Rui Fernando da Silva Rio is a Portuguese economist and retired politician of the Social Democratic Party (PSD). He was the Mayor of Porto from 2002 to 2013. Between 2018 and 2022,he was President of the PSD and Leader of the Opposition.
JoséPedro Correia de Aguiar-Branco is a Portuguese lawyer and politician who has been the President of the Assembly of the Republic since 2024,in the 16th Legislature. Previously he served as Minister of Justice from 2004 to 2005 and Minister of National Defence from 2011 to 2015.
João Nuno de Lacerda Teixeira de Melo is a Portuguese lawyer,conservative politician who is serving as Minister of National Defence,also being a member of the Assembly of the Republic,elected by Porto constituency. He was Member of the European Parliament (MEP) representing the Democratic and Social Centre –People's Party (CDS-PP),of which he is president.
The 2019 Portuguese legislative election was held on 6 October 2019. All 230 seats to the Assembly of the Republic were contested.
Rubina Everlien Berardo is a Madeiran and Portuguese politician and pundit who was a Social Democratic Party (PSD) Member of the Assembly of the Republic for the constituency of Madeira between 2015 and 2019. Since February 2018,she is one of the vice-presidents of her party's parliamentary group in the Assembly of the Republic.
An election was held in Portugal on Sunday,26 May 2019,to elect the Portuguese delegation to the European Parliament from 2019 to 2024. This was the eighth European Parliament election held in Portugal.
Maria da Graça Martins da Silva Carvalho is a Portuguese professor,engineer,and politician of the Social Democratic Party who has been serving as Minister of Environment and Energy in the government of Prime Minister Luís Montenegro since 2024.
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 has served as Mayor of Almada from 2017.
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.
Presidential elections are scheduled to be held in Portugal in January 2026. The elections will elect the successor to President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa,who is barred from running for a third term.
The 2022 Portuguese Social Democratic Party leadership election was held on 28 May 2022. If no candidate achieved more than 50% of the votes in the first round,a second round would be held between the two most voted candidates in the first round on 4 June 2022,however,as only two candidates were on the ballot,Luís Montenegro and Jorge Moreira da Silva,a second round was not necessary.
Snap legislative elections were held on 10 March 2024 to elect members of the Assembly of the Republic to the 16th Legislature of Portugal. All 230 seats to the Assembly of the Republic were up for election. The elections were called in November 2023 after Prime Minister António Costa's resignation following an investigation around alleged corruption involving the award of contracts for lithium and hydrogen businesses.
Lina Maria Cardoso Lopes is a Portuguese teacher,trade unionist and politician. A member of the centre-right Social Democratic Party (PSD),Lopes was first elected to the Assembly of the Republic in 2019 as a representative of the Lisbon constituency.
Isaura Maria Elias Crisóstomo Bernardino Morais is a Portuguese politician. She is a member of the centre-right Social Democratic Party (PSD),Morais was elected to the Assembly of the Republic in 2019 as a representative of the Santarém constituency and re-elected in January 2022 and March 2024.
This is the results breakdown of the Assembly of the Republic election held in Portugal on 30 January 2022. The following tables show detailed results in each of the country's 22 electoral constituencies.
Sónia Cristina Silva dos Ramos is a Portuguese jurist,member of the Assembly of the Republic and politician. She was a member of the Assembly of the Republic in the XV legislature for the Social Democratic Party,elected by Évora,and was re-elected in the 2024 national election.
Jorge Nuno Fernandes Traila Monteiro de Sá is a Portuguese politician who has been the President of Alliance since 2021.
