Portuguese local election, 2017

Portuguese local elections, 2017

September/October 2017

All 308 Portuguese municipalities and 3,092^[1] Portuguese Parishes All 2,000 local government councils


Leader	António Costa	Pedro Passos Coelho	Jerónimo de Sousa
Party	PS	PSD	CDU
Last election	150 mayors, 36.7%	106 mayors, 31.4%	34 mayors, 11.1%

The Portuguese local election of 2017 wil take place on late September or early October of the same year. The election consistes of three separate elections in the 308 Portuguese municipalities, the election for the Municipal Chambers, whose winner is elected mayor, another election for the Municipal Assembly, as well an election for the lower-level Parish Assembly, whose winner is elected parish president. This last will be held separately in the more than 3,000 parishes around the country.

Electoral system

All 308 municipalties are allocated a certain number of councilores to elect in proporcion with the number of registered voters. Each party or coalition must presents a list. The lists are closed and the seats in each municipalty are apportioned according to the largest average method of proportional representation (PR), conceived by the Belgian mathematician Victor d'Hondt in 1899. Unlike the legislative elections, independent lists are allowed to run.

For local elections, council seats and Parish assembly seats are distributed as follows:

Seat allocation for the 2017 local election^[2]
Councilors		Parish Assembly
Seats	Voters	Seats	Voters
17	only Lisbon	19	more than 20,000 voters
13	only Porto	13	5,000-20,000 voters
11	more than 100,000 voters	9	1,000-5,000 voters
9	50,000-100,000 voters	7	less than 1,000 voters
7	10,000-50,000 voters
5	less than 10,000 voters

Parties

The main political forces that will be involved in the election are:

Left Bloc (BE)
People's Party (CDS–PP) (only in some municipalities)¹
Democratic Unity Coalition (CDU)
Socialist Party (PS)
Social Democratic Party (PSD) (only in some municipalities)¹

¹ The PSD and the CDS–PP will also form coalitions in several municipalities with the Earth Party (MPT) and the People's Monarchist Party (PPM).

Opinion polling

Municipality	Date(s) Conducted	Polling Firm	PSD	PS	CDS-PP	CDU	BE	PSD CDS-PP	PSD CDS-PP PPM	PSD CDS-PP PPM MPT	Ind	Others / Und.	Lead
Municipality	Date(s) Conducted	Polling Firm										Others / Und.	Lead
Leiria	14–17 Oct	Eurosondagem	39.6	36.8	5.3	3.0	5.2	–	–	–	–	10.1	2.8
2016
Paços de Ferreira	26–30 Sep	Domp	20.6	50.4	0.9	2.0	1.1	–	–	–	–	25.1	29.8
Maia	20–30 Apr	GTriplo	–	26.4	–	3.5	2.0	24.0	–	–	1.6	42.5	2.4
2015

References

↑ DGAI - Reorganização Administrativa do Território das Freguesias - (RATF)
↑ "Lei Eleitoral dos Orgãos das Autarquias Locais" (PDF). Comissão Nacional de Eleições (in Portuguese): 110. 2014.

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