Portugal Legislative election 2025 — Results
Election day: May 18, 2025
- Democratic Alliance (AD): 31.80%, 91 seats
- Chega (CH): 22.76%, 60 seats
- Socialist Party (PS): 22.83%, 58 seats
- Liberal Initiative (IL): 5.36%, 9 seats
- Livre (L): 4.07%, 6 seats
- Unitary Democratic Coalition (CDU): 2.91%, 3 seats
- Left Bloc (BE): 1.99%, 1 seats
- People–Animals–Nature (PAN): 1.38%, 1 seats
Turnout: 58.32%
About this election
The political system
As in every Portuguese general election, voters chose the 230-member Assembly of the Republic by D'Hondt proportional representation in 22 constituencies, with 116 seats required for a majority. The election followed the fall of Montenegro's first minority government in a confidence vote, after opposition parties pressed questions about a consultancy owned by the prime minister's family. President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa once more dissolved parliament, sending an exhausted electorate back to the polls.
Compiled and reviewed from official results by ElectioMap. See our data methodology.
In numbers
- 8.97 points separated Democratic Alliance (AD) from Socialist Party (PS) — 565,942 votes.
- Democratic Alliance (AD) converted 31.80% of the vote into 91 of 230 seats (39.57%), 7.77 points more than its vote share.
- The top two shared 54.63% of the vote between them, and 4 lists cleared 5%.
- Democratic Alliance (AD) moved +2.96 points against the 2024 legislative election (28.84% → 31.80%).
- Turnout was 58.32%, down 1.59 points on 2024.
Calculated from the official figures on this page and from the other elections of this type in our archive.
Understanding this election
- 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
- How Live Election Data Is Collected and Verified — from ballot box to published figure