2024 Portuguese legislative election

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.

2024 Portuguese legislative election

10 March 2024

230 seats in the Assembly of the Republic
116 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered10,813,643 0.0%
Turnout6,476,952 (59.9%)
8.4 pp
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Luís Montenegro Pedro Nuno Santos André Ventura
Party PSD PS CH
Alliance AD
Leader since 28 May 2022 16 December 2023 9 April 2019
Leader's seat Lisbon Aveiro Lisbon
Last election 77 seats, 30.7% 120 seats, 41.4% 12 seats, 7.2%
Seats won 80 78 50
Seat change 3 42 38
Popular vote 1,867,442 1,812,443 1,169,781
Percentage 28.8% 28.0% 18.1%
Swing 1.9 pp 13.4 pp 10.9 pp

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Rui Rocha Mariana Mortágua Paulo Raimundo
Party IL BE PCP
Alliance CDU
Leader since 22 January 2023 28 May 2023 12 November 2022
Leader's seat Braga Lisbon Lisbon
Last election 8 seats, 4.9% 5 seats, 4.4% 6 seats, 4.3%
Seats won 8 5 4
Seat change 0 0 2
Popular vote 319,677 282,314 205,551
Percentage 4.9% 4.4% 3.2%
Swing 0.0 pp 0.0 pp 1.1 pp

  Seventh party Eighth party
 
Leader Rui Tavares
Teresa Mota
Inês Sousa Real
Party LIVRE PAN
Leader since 6 March 2022 6 June 2021
Leader's seat Lisbon
Braga (lost)
Lisbon
Last election 1 seat, 1.3% 1 seat, 1.6%
Seats won 4 1
Seat change 3 0
Popular vote 204,875 126,125
Percentage 3.2% 2.0%
Swing 1.9 pp 0.4 pp


Prime Minister before election

António Costa
PS

Prime Minister after election

Luís Montenegro
PSD

No party achieved an absolute majority of seats, with the centre-right Democratic Alliance (AD) led by Luís Montenegro winning 80 seats, closely followed by the Socialist Party (PS), which lost the absolute majority it had gained in the 2022 elections, and was reduced to 78 seats. The election also saw the surge of the right-wing populist Chega party as the third-largest party in parliament, more than quadrupling its previous seat count to 50 seats. Turnout in the election was at 59.9 percent, the highest since 2005, and in Portugal alone, turnout rose to 66.2%, the highest rate since 1995.

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