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2005 Portuguese local elections

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Field	Value
election_name	2005 Portuguese local elections
country	Portugal
type	parliamentary
previous_election	2001 Portuguese local elections
previous_year	2001
next_election	2009 Portuguese local elections
next_year	2009
seats_for_election	All 308 Portuguese municipalities and 4,260 Portuguese Parishes
All 2,046 local government councils
election_date	9 October 2005
turnout	60.9% 0.8 pp
opinion_polls	Opinion polling for the 2005 Portuguese local elections
1blank	Mayors
2blank	Mayors +/–
3blank	Councillors
4blank	Councillors +/–
image1
leader1	Luís Marques Mendes
party1	Social Democratic Party (Portugal)
last_election1	159 mayors, 41.2%
popular_vote1	2,150,710
percentage1	39.9%
swing1	1.3 pp
1data1	158
2data1	1
3data1	911
4data1	5
image2
leader2	José Sócrates
party2	Socialist Party (Portugal)
last_election2	113 mayors, 37.1%
popular_vote2	1,933,041
percentage2	35.9%
swing2	1.2 pp
1data2	109
2data2	4
3data2	853
4data2	3
image3
colour3	FF0000
leader3	Jerónimo de Sousa
party3	PCP
alliance3	CDU
last_election3	28 mayors, 10.6%
popular_vote3	589,384
percentage3	10.9%
swing3	0.3 pp
1data3	32
2data3	4
3data3	203
4data3	4

All 2,046 local government councils

Local elections were held in Portugal on 9 October 2005. The election consisted of three separate elections in the 308 Portuguese municipalities, the election for the Municipal Chambers, another election for the Municipal Assembly and a last one for the lower-level Parish Assembly, whose winner is elected parish president. This last was held separately in the more than 4,000 parishes around the country.

The Socialist Party may be considered the major defeated party of this election due to a slight loss of mandates. The Socialists did, however, achieve a better percentage of the vote in relation to the election of 2001.

On the right, the Social Democratic Party stole some municipalities from the Socialists, some of them in coalition with the People's Party that was reduced to only one municipality in stand-alone candidacies, Ponte de Lima, continuing its decline in comparison, for example, with the 36 mayors achieved in 1976.

On the left, the Unitary Democratic Coalition, led by the Communist Party, regained some of its former influence, taking 4 municipalities and several parishes from the Socialists in the districts of Beja, Évora and Setúbal and Leiria achieving a total of 32 mayors, and winning, for the first time, the election in Peniche. The Left Bloc kept the presidency of its single municipality, Salvaterra de Magos.

The election was also remarkable for the several victories of independent candidates, most of them former Socialist, Social Democratic and People's Party candidates who were expelled or given no confidence, because of corruption accusations, by their respective parties and, even so, became mayors. The best known were Valentim Loureiro in Gondomar, Fátima Felgueiras in Felgueiras and Isaltino Morais in Oeiras.

Electoral system

All 308 municipalities are allocated a certain number of councilors to elect corresponding to the number of registered voters in a given municipality. Each party or coalition must present a list of candidates. The winner of the most voted list for the municipal council is automatically elected mayor, similar to first-past-the-post (FPTP). 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.

Parties

The main political forces involved in the election were:

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

Opinion polling

Main article: Opinion polling for the 2005 Portuguese local elections

Voter turnout

The table below shows voter turnout throughout election day.

Turnout	Time	12:00	16:00	19:00	2001	2005	±	2001	2005	±	2001	2005	±
Total		21.35%		42.50%	48.00%	5.50 pp	60.13%	60.94%	0.81 pp
Sources

Results

Municipal Councils

National summary of votes and seats

|- ! rowspan="2" colspan=2 style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=left|Parties ! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|Votes ! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|% ! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|±pp swing ! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|Candidacies ! colspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|Councillors ! colspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|Mayors |- style="background-color:#E9E9E9" ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|Total ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|± ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|Total ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|± |- | |1,933,041||35.87||1.8||307||853||24||109||4 |- | |1,523,526||28.27||0.1||245||742||32||138||4 |- | |589,384||10.94||0.3||301||203||4||32||4 |- |462,199||8.58||0.4||42||131||17||18||3 |- | |165,192||3.07||0.6||185||30||9||1||2 |- | |158,953||2.95||1.8||111||7||1||1||0 |- |133,380||2.47||0.9||27||45||14||7||4 |- |91,455||1.70||0.4||12||20||10||1||0 |- |71,153||1.32||—||3||11||—||1||— |- | |15,421||0.29||0.0||19||0||0||0||0 |- | |5,096||0.09||0.0||13||0||0||0||0 |- | |2,045||0.04||—||4||0||—||0||— |- | |1,759||0.03||0.0||5||0||0||0||0 |- |1,670||0.03||—||1||2||—||0||— |- | |1,582||0.03||0.2||4||0||4||0||1 |- |707||0.01||2.5||1||0||8||0||1 |- |439||0.01||—||1||0||—||0||— |- |244||0.00||—||1||0||—||0||— |- |109||0.00||0.2||1||0||6||0||0 |- |11||0.00||—||1||0||—||0||—

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139,012
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90,919
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Municipality map

City control

The following table lists party control in all district capitals, highlighted in bold, as well as in municipalities above 100,000 inhabitants. Population estimates from the 2001 Census.

Municipality	Population	Previous control
Almada	160,825	Unitary Democratic Coalition}}"	Unitary Democratic Coalition (CDU)
Amadora	175,872	Socialist Party (Portugal)}}"	Socialist Party (PS)
Aveiro	73,335	Socialist Party (Portugal)}}"	Socialist Party (PS)
Barcelos	122,096	Social Democratic Party (Portugal)}}"	Social Democratic Party (PSD)
Beja	35,762	Unitary Democratic Coalition}}"	Unitary Democratic Coalition (CDU)
Braga	169,192	Socialist Party (Portugal)}}"	Socialist Party (PS)
Bragança	34,750	Social Democratic Party (Portugal)}}"	Social Democratic Party (PSD)
Cascais	170,683	Social Democratic Party (Portugal)}}"	PSD / CDS–PP
Castelo Branco	55,708	Socialist Party (Portugal)}}"	Socialist Party (PS)
Coimbra	148,443	Social Democratic Party (Portugal)}}"	PSD / CDS–PP / PPM
Évora	56,519	Socialist Party (Portugal)}}"	Socialist Party (PS)
Faro	58,051	Social Democratic Party (Portugal)}}"	Social Democratic Party (PSD)
Funchal	103,961	Social Democratic Party (Portugal)}}"	Social Democratic Party (PSD)
Gondomar	159,096	Social Democratic Party (Portugal)}}"	Social Democratic Party (PSD)
Guarda	43,822	Socialist Party (Portugal)}}"	Socialist Party (PS)
Guimarães	159,576	Socialist Party (Portugal)}}"	Socialist Party (PS)
Leiria	119,847	Social Democratic Party (Portugal)}}"	Social Democratic Party (PSD)
[Lisbon](2005-lisbon-local-election)	564,657	Social Democratic Party (Portugal)}}"	PSD / PPM
Loures	199,059	Socialist Party (Portugal)}}"	Socialist Party (PS)
Maia	120,111	Social Democratic Party (Portugal)}}"	PSD / CDS–PP
Matosinhos	167,026	Socialist Party (Portugal)}}"	Socialist Party (PS)
Odivelas	133,847	Socialist Party (Portugal)}}"	Socialist Party (PS)
Oeiras	162,128	Social Democratic Party (Portugal)}}"	Social Democratic Party (PSD)
Ponta Delgada	65,854	Social Democratic Party (Portugal)}}"	Social Democratic Party (PSD)
Portalegre	25,980	Social Democratic Party (Portugal)}}"	Social Democratic Party (PSD)
Porto	263,131	Social Democratic Party (Portugal)}}"	PSD / CDS–PP
Santarém	63,563	Socialist Party (Portugal)}}"	Socialist Party (PS)
Santa Maria da Feira	135,964	Social Democratic Party (Portugal)}}"	Social Democratic Party (PSD)
Seixal	150,271	Unitary Democratic Coalition}}"	Unitary Democratic Coalition (CDU)
Setúbal	113,934	Unitary Democratic Coalition}}"	Unitary Democratic Coalition (CDU)
Sintra	363,749	Social Democratic Party (Portugal)}}"	PSD / CDS–PP
Viana do Castelo	88,631	Socialist Party (Portugal)}}"	Socialist Party (PS)
Vila Franca de Xira	122,908	Socialist Party (Portugal)}}"	Socialist Party (PS)
Vila Nova de Famalicão	127,567	Social Democratic Party (Portugal)}}"	PSD / CDS–PP
Vila Nova de Gaia	288,749	Social Democratic Party (Portugal)}}"	PSD / CDS–PP
Vila Real	49,957	Social Democratic Party (Portugal)}}"	Social Democratic Party (PSD)
Viseu	93,501	Social Democratic Party (Portugal)}}"	Social Democratic Party (PSD)

Municipal Assemblies

National summary of votes and seats

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138,424
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92,140
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Parish Assemblies

National summary of votes and seats

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151,527
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101,067
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Maps

File:Pt ploelection ta2005.PNG|The first and the second most voted parties in Municipal Assemblies in each district. (Azores and Madeira are not shown) File:Pt ploelection pa2005.PNG|The first and the second most voted parties in Parish Assemblies in each district. (Azores and Madeira are not shown)

End notes

The source of the voting data is the Portuguese Electoral Commission

Further Notes:

Democratic Unity Coalition (CDU) is composed of the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP), "The Greens" (PEV) and the Democratic Intervention (ID).
The different coalitions between the Social Democratic Party (PSD), the People's Party (CDS–PP), the People's Monarchist Party (PPM) or the ** Earth Party (MPT)** appear because each municipality has its own election.
The number of candidacies expresses the number of municipalities or parishes in which the party or coalition presented lists.
The number of mandates expresses the number of municipal deputies in the Municipal Assembly election and the number of parish deputies in the Parish Assembly election.
The turnout varies because one may choose not to vote for all the organs.

References

[https://diariodarepublica.pt/dr/legislacao-consolidada/lei-organica/2001-34526875 Eleição dos titulares dos órgãos das autarquias locais]. ''[[Diário da República]]'' (in Portuguese.) Retrieved 17 July 2025.
(9 October 2005). "Afluência às urnas de 48 por cento, às 16:00". RTP.
"Autárquicas 2005 - Afluência". [[Ministry of Internal Administration (Portugal).
"Instituto Nacional de Estatística (Recenseamentos Gerais da População)". [[Instituto Nacional de Estatística (Portugal).

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