Portugal Legislative election 2022 — Results
Election day: January 30, 2022
- Socialist Party (PS): 41.37%, 120 seats
- Social Democratic Party (PSD): 29.12%, 77 seats
- Chega (CH): 7.18%, 12 seats
- Liberal Initiative (IL): 4.92%, 8 seats
- Left Bloc (BE): 4.40%, 5 seats
- Unitary Democratic Coalition (CDU): 4.29%, 6 seats
- People–Animals–Nature (PAN): 1.58%, 1 seats
- Livre (L): 1.28%, 1 seats
Turnout: 51.43%
About this election
The political system
The Assembly of the Republic's 230 members are elected by D'Hondt proportional representation across 22 constituencies for four-year terms; an absolute majority requires 116 seats. Because Portugal's recent governments had all been minorities reliant on parliamentary deals, a single-party majority — last achieved by the PS under José Sócrates in 2005 — represented a marked concentration of power. The separately elected President, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, had dissolved parliament after the budget defeat, judging that the institutional crisis warranted fresh elections rather than a reshuffled majority.
Compiled and reviewed from official results by ElectioMap. See our data methodology.
In numbers
- 12.25 points separated Socialist Party (PS) from Social Democratic Party (PSD) — 684,220 votes.
- Socialist Party (PS) converted 41.37% of the vote into 120 of 230 seats (52.17%), 10.80 points more than its vote share.
- The top two shared 70.49% of the vote between them, and 3 lists cleared 5%.
- Socialist Party (PS) moved +5.02 points against the 2019 legislative election (36.35% → 41.37%).
- Turnout was 51.43%, up 2.83 points on 2019.
Calculated from the official figures on this page and from the other elections of this type in our archive.
Understanding this election
- D’Hondt vs Sainte-Laguë — how a divisor formula turns vote shares into seats
- How Electoral Systems Work Around the World — first-past-the-post, proportional and mixed systems, with real numbers
- Why Election Maps Look Different From the Popular Vote — why a map can look one-sided when the vote was close