2013 Porto local election

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2013 Porto local elections
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All 13 Councillors in the Porto City Council
7 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Turnout52.6% Decrease 4.2 pp
  First party Second party
 
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Leader Rui Moreira Manuel Pizarro
Party Independent PS
Alliance Porto, Our Party
Last election Did not contest 5 seats, 34.7%
Seats won 6 3
Seat change New party Decrease 2
Popular vote 45,411 26,237
Percentage 39.3% 22.7%
Swing New party Decrease 12.0 pp
  Third party Fourth party
 
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Leader Luís Filipe Menezes Pedro Carvalho
Party PSD PCP
Alliance Strong Porto[a] CDU
Last election 5 seats (PP)[b] 1 seat, 9.8%
Seats won 3 1
Seat change Decrease 2 Steady
Popular vote 24,366 8,539
Percentage 21.1% 7.4%
Swing [a] Decrease 2.4 pp
Mayor before election

Rui Rio
PSD

Elected mayor

Rui Moreira
Independent

The 2013 Porto local election was held on 29 September 2013 to elect the members of the Porto City Council.

Rui Moreira, an independent candidate, won the election and became the Mayor of Porto, succeeding Rui Rio.[1] He beat the Socialist candidate, Manuel Pizarro, who got 22.7% of the votes and 3 councillors, and the Mayor of Vila Nova de Gaia, Luís Filipe Menezes, the Social Democratic candidate, who achieved 21.1% of the votes and also got 3 councillors. The Unitary Democratic Coalition, led by Pedro Carvalho, kept its seat in the city council, having a slight drop in the vote share to 7.4%[2]

The Left Bloc failed to win any seats in the city council, just like Nuno Cardoso, the former Mayor of Porto from 1999 to 2002, who ran as an independent.

Rui Moreira failed to achieve an absolute majority, and as such governed with the Socialist Party.[3]

Background

In the 2009 election, Rui Rio, candidate for the PSD/CDS coalition, won a third and final term as mayor of Porto, winning 47.5% of the votes and 7 seats, an absolute majority. The Socialist Party, led by Elisa Ferreira, achieved second place with 5 seats and about 35% of the votes. The Unitary Democratic Coalition got 1 seat and 9.8% of the votes.[4]

Electoral system

Each party or coalition must present a list of candidates. 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.[5]

Parties and candidates

Party/Coalition Political
position 		Candidate[6] 2009 result
Votes (%) Seats
PF Strong Porto
Porto Forte PSD, PPM, MPT 		Centre-right Luís Filipe Menezes 47.5%[b]
5 / 13
PS Socialist Party
Partido Socialista 		Centre-left Manuel Pizarro 34.7%
5 / 13
CDU Unitary Democratic Coalition
Coligação Democrática Unitária PCP, PEV 		Left-wing
to far-left 		Pedro Carvalho 7.4%
1 / 13
BE Left Bloc
Bloco de Esquerda 		Left-wing
to far-left 		José Soeiro 5.0%
0 / 13
PCTP Portuguese Workers' Communist Party
Partido Comunista dos Trabalhadores Portugueses 		Far-left José Carlos Santos 0.7%
0 / 13
PTP Portuguese Labour Party
Partido Trabalhista Português 		Center-left José Manuel Pereira — —
NC Nuno Cardoso – Porto of Future
Nuno Cardoso – Porto de Futuro 		Center-left Nuno Cardoso [pt] — —
RM Porto, Our Party[c]
Porto, O nosso Partido 		Right-wing Rui Moreira —
2 / 13

Opinion polling

Polling

  Exit poll

Polling firm/Link Fieldwork date Sample size PSD
PPM
MPT 		PS CDU BE RM NC O Lead
2013 local election 29 Sep 2013 — 21.1
3 		22.7
3 		7.4
1 		3.6
0 		39.3
6 		1.1
0 		4.9
0 		16.6
UCP–CESOP 29 Sep 2013 8,777 22.0–
25.0
3 / 4 		21.0–
24.0
3 / 4 		7.0–
9.0
1 		3.0–
5.0
0 / 1 		36.0–
40.0
5 / 6 		– – 14.0–
15.0
Eurosondagem 29 Sep 2013 6,983 19.4–
23.2
3 / 4 		25.0–
28.8
3 / 4 		7.0–
9.3
1 		4.0–
6.2
0 / 1 		30.0–
34.2
4 / 5 		1.0–
1.8
0 		– 5.0–
5.4
Eurosondagem
Seats projection 		23–25 Sep 2013 1,010 26.9
4 		24.1
4 		10.5
1 		4.5
– 		26.5
4 		3.9
– 		3.6
– 		0.4
Aximage 21–25 Sep 2013 602 27.5 28.1 8.3 4.1 29.2 — 2.8 1.1
UCP–CESOP
Seats projection 		21–23 Sep 2013 1,272 26.0
3 / 4 		24.0
3 / 4 		9.0
1 		5.0
0 / 1 		29.0
4 / 5 		2.0
– 		5.0
– 		3.0
IPOM 21–23 Sep 2013 1,000 37.5 26.6 8.1 5.0 14.4 2.5 5.9 10.9
Eurosondagem
Seats projection 		6–7 Aug 2013 603 32.1
5 		23.8
3 / 4 		8.5
1 		4.5
– 		24.8
3 / 4 		3.3
– 		3.0
– 		7.3
Eurosondagem
Seats projection 		24–25 Jul 2013 810 32.5
5 		22.5
3 		8.4
1 		4.8
– 		25.2
4 		3.6
– 		3.0
– 		7.3
IPOM 29–30 Jun 2013 1,020 39.6 24.9 4.9 4.7 16.2 3.6 6.1 14.7
Eurosondagem
Seats projection 		20–22 May 2013 804 33.0
5 		24.8
3 / 4 		10.2
1 		4.3
– 		25.0
3 / 4 		— 2.7
– 		8.0
IPOM 13–15 Apr 2013 2,962 41.0 21.8 9.5 6.0 17.2 — 4.4 19.2
IPOM[7] 17–23 Jan 2013 796 21.2 15.8 1.9 1.9 4.2 — 55.0 5.4
796 31.7 13.5 — — 12.1 — 42.6 18.2
2009 local election 11 Oct 2009 — 47.5
7[b] 		34.7
5 		9.8
1 		5.0
0 		— — 3.1
0 		12.8

Results

Municipal Council

Summary of the 29 September 2013 Municipal Council elections results
in Porto
1
3
6
3
Parties Votes % ±pp swing Councillors
Total ±
Porto, Our Party 45,411 39.25 — 6 —
Socialist 26,237 22.68 Decrease12.0 3 Decrease2
Social Democratic / People's Monarchist / Earth 24,366 21.06 — 3 Decrease2
Unitary Democratic Coalition 8,539 7.38 Decrease2.4 1 Steady0
Left Bloc 4,166 3.60 Decrease1.4 0 Steady0
Nuno Cardoso – Porto our Future 1,255 1.08 — 0 —
Portuguese Workers' Communist 343 0.30 Decrease0.4 0 Steady0
Labour 279 0.24 — 0 —
Total valid 110,596 95.59 Decrease2.1 13 Steady0
Blank ballots 2,922 2.53 Increase1.2
Invalid ballots 2,180 1.88 Increase0.9
Total 115,698 100.00
Registered voters/turnout 219,949 52.60 Decrease4.2
Source: Porto 2013 election results

Municipal Assembly

Summary of the 29 September 2013 Porto Municipal Assembly elections
results
2
4
10
15
8
Parties Votes % ±pp swing Seats
Total ±
Porto, Our Party 40,134 34.69 — 15 —
Socialist 27,413 23.70 Decrease10.1 10 Decrease4
Social Democratic / People's Monarchist / Earth 23,495 20.31 — 8 —
Unitary Democratic Coalition 11,436 9.89 Decrease1.1 4 Steady0
Left Bloc 5,760 4.98 Decrease2.5 2 Decrease1
Nuno Cardoso – Porto our Future 1,272 1.10 — 0 —
Labour 330 0.29 — 0 —
Total valid 109,840 94.95 Decrease2.5 39 Steady0
Blank ballots 3,426 2.96 Increase1.3
Invalid ballots 2,416 2.09 Increase1.2
Total 115,682 100.00
Registered voters/turnout 219,949 52.59 Decrease4.2
Source: Porto 2013 election results

Parish Assemblies

Results of the 29 September 2013 Porto Parish Assembly elections
Parish % S % S % S % S % S Total
S
RM PS PF CDU BE
Aldoar, Foz do Douro e Nevogilde 45.8 10 23.5 5 17.8 3 5.5 1 5.0 - 19
Bonfim 38.1 8 21.9 4 20.2 4 10.7 2 4.9 1 19
Campanhã 17.9 4 39.1 9 20.0 4 12.6 2 4.1 - 19
Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau e Vitória 30.3 7 24.0 6 21.6 5 11.6 2 6.3 1 21
Lordelo do Ouro e Massarelos 38.1 8 21.9 4 20.2 4 10.7 2 4.5 1 19
Paranhos 26.2 6 24.3 5 29.4 7 9.5 2 4.7 1 21
Ramalde 35.7 8 26.0 5 20.1 4 7.9 1 4.8 1 19
Total 31.6 49 26.0 39 22.5 32 9.7 12 4.7 5 137
Source: Election Results

References

  1. ^ Gomes, Margarida (2013-09-29). "Rui Moreira: "Se os partidos não entenderem o que se passou aqui hoje, então não perceberam nada"". PÚBLICO (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2024-10-23.
  2. ^ Renascença (2013-09-29). "Rui Moreira vence no Porto". Rádio Renascença (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2024-10-19.
  3. ^ "Rui Moreira toma hoje posse no Porto com acordo firmado com PS". www.jornaldenegocios.pt (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2024-10-23.
  4. ^ "Porto: Rui Rio vence Elisa Ferreira". www.cmjornal.pt (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2024-10-23.
  5. ^ "::: Lei n.º 169/99, de 18 de Setembro". www.pgdlisboa.pt. Retrieved 2022-02-12.
  6. ^ "Autarquicas 2017 Candidatos" (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2024-10-20.
  7. ^ Survey where voters were first asked which party or coalition they would vote for and secondly, which candidate they would cast their ballot for.

Notes

  1. ^ a b Coalition with PPD/PSD, PPM and MPT.
  2. ^ a b c In the 2009 election, PSD and CDS-PP ran in a coalition called Porto First, achieving 47.5% of the votes and 7 councillors. PSD elected 5 councillors and CDS-PP elected 2 councillors.
  3. ^ Included members of the CDS – People's Party.