Portugal Legislative election 2024 — Results
Election day: March 10, 2024
- Democratic Alliance (AD): 28.84%, 80 seats
- Socialist Party (PS): 28.00%, 78 seats
- Chega (CH): 18.07%, 50 seats
- Liberal Initiative (IL): 4.94%, 8 seats
- Left Bloc (BE): 4.36%, 5 seats
- Unitary Democratic Coalition (CDU): 3.17%, 4 seats
- Livre (L): 3.16%, 4 seats
- People–Animals–Nature (PAN): 1.95%, 1 seats
Turnout: 59.91%
About this election
The political system
Portugal elects its 230-member Assembly of the Republic by D'Hondt proportional representation across 22 constituencies, with 116 seats needed for a majority. The election was a snap poll, called by President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa after the resignation of Prime Minister António Costa amid a corruption inquiry. Because the President had dissolved parliament rather than hand the premiership to another Socialist, the campaign effectively functioned as a referendum on a change of direction after the Costa era.
Compiled and reviewed from official results by ElectioMap. See our data methodology.
In numbers
- 0.84 points separated Democratic Alliance (AD) from Socialist Party (PS) — 54,999 votes.
- Democratic Alliance (AD) converted 28.84% of the vote into 80 of 230 seats (34.78%), 5.94 points more than its vote share.
- The top two shared 56.84% of the vote between them, and 3 lists cleared 5%.
- Turnout of 59.91% is the highest of the 5 legislative elections covered here since 2015.
Calculated from the official figures on this page and from the other elections of this type in our archive.
Understanding this election
- Why Election Maps Look Different From the Popular Vote — why a map can look one-sided when the vote was close
- How a Constituency Map Gets Built — what happens when no boundary file matches the districts
- How We Check an Election Figure — the checks every number passes before publication