The 2017 Porto local election was held on 1 October 2017 to elect the members of the Porto City Council.
Rui Moreira, mayor since 2013, won a second term as Mayor of Porto, winning a majority in the city council. He beat the Socialist candidate, once again Manuel Pizarro, who managed to increase his voting share and to gain 1 councillor.
The Social Democratic Party, in coalition with the People's Monarchist Party, had a terrible result, losing more than half of the votes from 2013 and electing one single councillor. The Communist Party, with Ilda Figueiredo as its candidate, managed to keep its seat in the City Council, despite a slight loss in the vote share. Meanwhile, the Left Bloc, with João Teixeira Lopes as its candidate after João Semedo withrew his candidacy for health reasons, failed once again to gain any seat in the city council.
Background In the 2013 election, Rui Moreira, an independent politician, managed to win the election, despite not winning an absolute majority. The Socialist Party, led by Manuel Pizarro, achieved second place with 3 seats and about 22% of the votes, being followed by the Social Democratic Party, led by Luís Filipe Menezes, who also elected 3 seats and got 21% of the votes. The Unitary Democratic Coalition got 1 seat and 7.4% of the votes.
Rui Moreira governed with support from the Socialist Party, who intended to support Rui Moreira's independent movement in 2017. Despite that, Rui Moreira declined the support of the Socialist Party and, in response, the Socialists ended the government agreement with the independent movement.
Electoral system 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.
Parties and candidates Party/Coalition Politicalposition Candidate 2013 result Votes (%) Seats RM Porto, Our Party 2017 Center-rightto right-wing Rui Moreira 39.3% PS Socialist Party Centre-left Manuel Pizarro 22.7% PSD-PPM Authentic Porto Centre-right Álvaro Almeida 21.1% CDU Unitary Democratic Coalition Left-wingto far-left Ilda Figueiredo7.4% BE Left Bloc Left-wingto far-left 3.6% PTP Portuguese Labour Party Center-left José Manuel Pereira 0.2% PAN People Animals Nature Centre-left PPV/CDC Citizenship and Christian Democracy Right-wing Orlando Cruz PNR National Renovator Party Far-right Sandra Martins
Opinion polling
Polling firm/Link Fieldwork date Sample size RM CDS PSDPPM PS CDU BE Lead 2017 local election 1 Oct 2017 44.5 10.4 28.6 5.9 5.3 5.4 15.9 UCP–CESOP 1 Oct 2017 11,592 43–48 8–10 28–31 6–8 5–7 – 15–17 Eurosondagem 1 Oct 2017 7,657 37.7–42.0 7.7–11.0 30.3–34.0 4.8–7.2 4.8–7.2 – 7.4–8.0 Intercampus 1 Oct 2017 4,354 42.0–47.0 8.1–11.1 27.7–31.7 5.0–8.0 4.2–7.2 1.0–7.0 14.3–15.3 Eurosondagem 24–26 Sep 2017 72540.8 11.0 30.8 6.9 5.4 5.1 10.0 UCP–CESOP 23–25 Sep 2017 1,239 34 9 34 8 7 8 Tie Aximage 16–19 Sep 2017 60039.9 11.8 20.8 8.9 5.3 13.3 19.1 UCP–CESOP 16–17 Sep 2017 1,23934 13 33 8 6 6 1 Eurosondagem 19–21 Jul 2017 1,52546.9 12.1 22.5 8.2 5.5 4.8 24.4 Eurosondagem 15–17 May 2017 1,01144.8 15.1 22.2 6.9 6.0 5.0 22.62015 Legislative election4 Oct 201538.532.68.411.46.15.92014 EP election25 May 201429.729.812.55.515.90.1 2013 local election 29 Sep 2013 39.3 21.1 22.7 7.4 3.6 6.0 16.6
Results Municipal Council
| colspan="11" style="text-align:center;" | |- ! rowspan="2" colspan=2 style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=left|Parties ! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|Votes ! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|% ! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|±pp swing ! colspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|Councillors |- style="background-color:#E9E9E9" ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|Total ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|± |- |style="width: 9px" bgcolor=gray align="center" | |align=left|Porto, Our Party 2017 |51,159||44.46||5.2||7||1
|32,856||28.55||5.9||4||1 |- |style="width: 9px" bgcolor=#FF9966 align="center" | |align=left|Social Democratic / People's Monarchist |11,952||10.39||10.7||1||2
|6,781||5.89||1.5||1||0
|6,146||5.34||1.7||0||0
|2,215||1.92||||0||
|186||0.16||||0||
|173||0.15||||0||
|166||0.14||0.1||0||0
|colspan=2 width="330" align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total valid |width="50" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|111,634 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|97.01 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|1.4 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|13 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|0 |- |colspan=2|Blank ballots |1,826||1.59||0.9||colspan=3 rowspan=4| |- |colspan=2|Invalid ballots |1,613||1.40||0.5 |- |colspan=2 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total |width="50" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|115,073 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| |- |colspan=2|Registered voters/turnout ||214,324||53.69||1.1 |- | colspan=11 align=left | Source: Porto 2017 election results
Municipal Assembly
| colspan="11" style="text-align:center;" | |- ! rowspan="2" colspan=2 style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=left|Parties ! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|Votes ! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|% ! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|±pp swing ! colspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|Seats |- style="background-color:#E9E9E9" ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|Total ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|± |- |style="width: 9px" bgcolor=gray align="center" | |align=left|Porto, Our Party 2017 |44,614||38.78||4.1||16||1
|31,238||27.16||3.5||11||1 |- |style="width: 9px" bgcolor=#FF9966 align="center" | |align=left|Social Democratic / People's Monarchist |15.156||13.18||7.1||8||3
|8,748||7.60||2.3||3||1
|8,281||7.20||2.2||3||1
|3,195||2.78||||1|| |- |colspan=2 width="330" align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total valid |width="50" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|111,232 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|96.70 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|1.8 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|39 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|0 |- |colspan=2|Blank ballots |1,991||1.73||1.2||colspan=3 rowspan=4| |- |colspan=2|Invalid ballots |1,809||1.57||0.5 |- |colspan=2 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total |width="50" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|115,032 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| |- |colspan=2|Registered voters/turnout ||214,324||53.67||1.1 |- | colspan=11 align=left | Source: Porto 2017 election results
Parish Assemblies
|- class="unsortable" !rowspan=2|Parish!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S !rowspan=2|TotalS |- class="unsortable" style="text-align:center;" !colspan=2 | RM !colspan=2 | PS !colspan=2 | PSD/PPM !colspan=2 | CDU !colspan=2 | BE |- | style="text-align:left;" | Aldoar, Foz do Douro e Nevogilde | style="background:#808080; color:white;"| 50.2 | 10 | 21.4 | 4 | 15.5 | 3 | 4.9 | 1 | 5.0 | 1 | 19 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Bonfim | style="background:#808080; color:white;"| 35.7 | 8 | 28.7 | 6 | 15.5 | 3 | 8.4 | 1 | 8.0 | 1 | 19 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Campanhã | 26.7 | 5 | style="background:#FF66FF; color:white;"| 40.2 | 9 | 11.5 | 2 | 10.3 | 2 | 6.4 | 1 | 19 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau e Vitória | style="background:#808080; color:white;"| 33.8 | 7 | 28.6 | 6 | 14.0 | 3 | 8.4 | 1 | 10.8 | 2 | 19 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Lordelo do Ouro e Massarelos | style="background:#808080; color:white;"| 42.8 | 9 | 25.3 | 5 | 12.6 | 2 | 8.9 | 2 | 6.7 | 1 | 19 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Paranhos | 26.4 | 6 | 24.9 | 6 | style="background:#FF9966; color:white;"| 30.6 | 7 | 6.9 | 1 | 6.5 | 1 | 21 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Ramalde | style="background:#808080; color:white;"| 39.0 | 8 | 29.2 | 6 | 14.6 | 3 | 6.3 | 1 | 6.9 | 1 | 19 |- class="unsortable" style="background:#E9E9E9" | style="text-align:left;" | Total | style="background:#808080; color:white;"| 35.7 | 53 | 28.1 | 42 | 17.4 | 23 | 7.6 | 9 | 7.2 | 8 | 135 |- | colspan=19 style="text-align:left;" | Source: Election Results
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Notes
External links 2017 local election results