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.
An election of MEPs representing Portugal for the 2004-2009 term of the European Parliament was held on 13 June 2004. It was part of the wider 2004 European election.
The CDS –People's Party is a conservative and Christian democratic political party in Portugal. It is characterized as being between the centre-right and right-wing of the political spectrum. In voting ballots,the party's name appears only as the People's Party,with the abbreviation CDS–PP unchanged.
The Democratic Alliance was a centre-right political alliance,in Portugal composed of the Social Democratic Party (PSD),CDS –People's Party (CDS–PP) and the People's Monarchist Party (PPM). It existed between 1979 and 1983,and was refounded for the 2024 legislative election. After its first official dissolution,the coalition was continued to operated in local elections after 1989 and presented lists across the country in every single local election after 2001.
An election of MEP representing Portugal constituency for the 1994-1999 term of the European Parliament was held on 12 June 1994. It was part of the wider 1994 European election.
An election of the delegation from Portugal to the European Parliament was held on 7 June 2009.
Teófilo Carvalho dos Santos,was a Portuguese politician.
An election was held in Portugal on Sunday,25 May 2014,to elect the Portuguese delegation to the European Parliament from 2014 to 2019. This was the seventh European Parliament election held in Portugal.
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.
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.
Francisco JoséNina Martins Rodrigues dos Santos is a Portuguese conservative politician and a lawyer. He was elected President of the CDS –People's Party in the National Congress of the Party in Aveiro,with 46% of the votes. In 2018,he was selected as one of the Forbes 30 Under 30 in Europe for law and policy.
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.
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.
The next Azorean regional election will be held on or before October 2028,to determine the composition of the Legislative Assembly of the Autonomous Region of the Azores,Portugal. The election will replace all 57 members of the Azores Assembly,and the new members will then elect the President of the Autonomous Region.
Members of Parliament in the 2024 Portuguese legislative election will be elected in a closed list proportional representation system. Each constituency in Portugal elects a certain number of MPs depending on their number of registered voters. This number ranges from a minimum of 2 MPs in Portalegre to 48 in Lisbon. In this page,the names of the head candidates by party and/or coalition for each constituency will be listed. The leader of each party/coalition is displayed in bold.
The AD –Democratic Alliance is a centre-right political alliance in Portugal. Composed of the Social Democratic Party (PSD),CDS –People's Party (CDS–PP) and People's Monarchist Party (PPM),the alliance is a relaunch of the eponymous alliance which contested elections between 1979 and 1983.
Paulo de Faria Lynce Núncio is a Portuguese lawyer and politician,who was Secretary of State for Fiscal Affairs of Portugal from 2011 and 2015.
João Rodrigo Pinho de Almeida is a Portuguese jurist and politician who was a member of the Assembly of the Republic from 2002 to 2022,and again since 2024,as a member of the CDS –People's Party. He was also Secretary of State of Internal Administration in the XIX Constitutional Government and in the XX Constitutional Government,led by Pedro Passos Coelho.
Ana Miguel Pedro Soares is a Portuguese jurist and politician who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament for the CDS –People's Party since 2024.
