2024 Portuguese legislative election

2024 Portuguese legislative election

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230 seats in the Assembly of the Republic 116 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered	10,813,643 0.0%
Turnout	6,476,952 (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[a] 16 December 2023 9 April 2019 Leader's seat Lisbon Aveiro Lisbon Last election 77 seats, 30.7%[b] 120 seats, 41.4% 12 seats, 7.2% Seats won 80 78 50 Seat change 3 42 38 Popular vote 1,867,442[c] 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%[d] 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[e] 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
Vote winner strength by district Results by constituency
Prime Minister before election António Costa PS Prime Minister after election Luís Montenegro PSD

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.^[1]

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.

The leader of the largest party, Luis Montenegro, would go on to form a centre-right minority government ending nearly a decade of rule by the Socialist Party.

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