2009 Lisbon local election explained

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Election Name:2009 Lisbon local elections
Type:parliamentary
Previous Election:2007 Lisbon local by-election
Previous Year:2007 by-election
Next Election:2013 Lisbon local election
Next Year:2013
Election Date:11 October 2009
Seats For Election:All 17 Councillors in the Lisbon City Council
Majority Seats:9
Turnout:53.4% 16.7 pp
Opinion Polls:2013 Lisbon local election#Opinion polling
Leader1:António Costa
Party1:Socialist Party (Portugal)
Last Election1:8 seats, 39.8%
Popular Vote1:123,372
Seats1:9
Seat Change1: 1
Percentage1:44.0%
Swing1: 4.2 pp
Leader2:Pedro Santana Lopes
Party2:Social Democratic Party (Portugal)
Alliance2:Lisbon with Way
Colour2:2A52BE
Last Election2:3 seats, 20.4%
Popular Vote2:108,457
Seats2:7
Seat Change2: 4
Percentage2:38.7%
Swing2: 18.3 pp
Image4:
Leader4:Ruben de Carvalho
Party4:Portuguese Communist Party
Alliance4:CDU
Colour4:ff0000
Last Election4:2 seats, 9.4%
Popular Vote4:22,623
Seats4:1
Seat Change4: 1
Percentage4:8.1%
Swing4: 1.3 pp
Leader5:Luís Fazenda
Party5:Left Bloc (Portugal)
Last Election5:1 seats, 6.8%
Popular Vote5:12,795
Seats5:0
Seat Change5: 1
Percentage5:4.6%
Swing5: 2.2 pp
Mayor
Before Election:António Costa
Before Party:Socialist Party (Portugal)
After Election:António Costa
After Party:Socialist Party (Portugal)

The 2009 Lisbon local election was held on 11 October 2009 to elect the members of the Lisbon City Council.

Mayor since 2007, António Costa, was able to win a full term as mayor with 44 percent of the votes and achieving an absolute majority. In this election, he joined forces with Helena Roseta's Citizen for Lisbon movement. He defeated former Lisbon mayor and Prime Minister Pedro Santana Lopes, which gathered almost 39 percent of the votes and elected 7 councillors.[1]

The Unitary Democratic Coalition presented, just like in 2007, Ruben de Carvalho as their mayoral candidate, but lost support compared with 2007, winning 8 percent of the votes and losing one councillor. The Left Bloc, presented Luís Fazenda as a candidate for Mayor, but failed to hold on to their council seat.

Turnout grew considerably compared with the 2007 by-election, with just 53.4 percent of voters casting a ballot on election day.

Background

The 2007 by-election was called after former mayor Carmona Rodrigues government fell, following a controversial urban development plan regarding a company called Bragaparques, that ended up being investigated by the Public Prosecution Office.[2] The PSD withdrew their support from Carmona and a by-election was shortly called.[3] In a very fragmented result, António Costa, PS candidate, was elected mayor with just 29.5 percent 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/CoalitionPolitical
position		Candidate[6] 2007 result
Votes (%)Seats
PSSocialist Party
Centre-leftAntónio Costa39.8%
LCSLisbon with Way
Centre-rightPedro Santana Lopes20.5%
CDUUnitary Democratic Coalition
Left-wing
to far-left		Ruben de Carvalho9.4%
BELeft Bloc
Left-wing
to far-left		Luís Fazenda6.8%
PCTPPortuguese Workers' Communist Party
Far-leftCarlos Paisana1.6%
PNRNational Renovator Party
Far-rightJosé Pinto Coelho0.8%
MEPHope for Portugal Movement
Centre-rightJosé Ramos
MMSMerit and Society Movement
Centre-rightAntónio Coelho da Costa
PTPPortuguese Labour Party
Centre-leftBruno de Sousa

Opinion polling

Polling

Polling firm/LinkFieldwork dateSample sizePSPSD
CDS
MPT
PPM		CDUBELead
2009 local electiondata-sort-value="2019-10-06"11 Oct 200944.0
38.7
8.1
4.6
4.6
5.3
UCP–CESOPdata-sort-value="2019-10-06"11 Oct 2009?44.0–
48.0		34.0–
38.0		8.5–
10.5		3.0–
5.0		–10.0
Eurosondagemdata-sort-value="2019-10-06"11 Oct 2009?41.2–
45.4		36.9–
41.1		6.6–
8.8		3.9–
6.1		–4.3
Intercampusdata-sort-value="2019-10-06"11 Oct 2009?42.8–
48.4		34.7–
40.3		–––8.1
Aximage6–8 Oct 200980244.438.46.46.04.86.0
Marktest5–7 Oct 200951045.037.97.35.44.47.1
UCP–CESOP3–6 Oct 20092,221453398512
Eurosondagem1–6 Oct 20091,02241.936.98.48.04.85.0
Intercampus28–30 Sep 200980041.433.110.48.36.88.3
2009 legislative election27 Sep 200934.8
40.9
8.6
9.8
5.9
6.1
Marktest31 Aug–2 Sep 200950043.832.77.09.27.38.3
UCP–CESOP28 Jun–4 Jul 200971638377991
2009 EP election7 Jun 200925.6
39.8
10.8
12.4
11.4
14.2
2007 by-electiondata-sort-value="2019-10-06"15 Jul 200739.8
20.5
9.5
6.8
23.4
19.3

Results

Municipal Council

|-| colspan="11"||-! 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! colspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|Councillors|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|Total! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|±|-|style="width: 9px" bgcolor=#FF66FF align="center" ||align=left|Socialist|123,372||44.01||4.2||9||1|-|style="width: 9px" bgcolor=#2A52BE align="center" | |align=left|PSD / CDS–PP / MPT / PPM|108,457||38.69||18.3||7||4|-| |22,623||8.07||1.3||1||1|-| |12,795||4.56||2.2||0||1|-| |1,975||0.70||||0|||-| |1,866||0.67||0.9||0||0|-| |917||0.33||0.5||0||0|-||638||0.23||||0|||-|style="width: 9px" bgcolor=#CC0033 align="center" | |align=left|Labour|515||0.18||||0|||-|colspan=2 width="330" align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total valid|width="50" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|273,158|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|97.45|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|1.3|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|17|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|0|-|colspan=2|Blank ballots|4,267||1.52||0.9||colspan=3 rowspan=4||-|colspan=2|Invalid ballots|2,885||1.03||0.5|-|colspan=2 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total|width="50" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|280,310|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"||-|colspan=2|Registered voters/turnout||524,642||53.43||16.7|-| colspan=11 align=left | Source: Lisbon 2009 election results|}

Municipal Assembly

|-| colspan="11"||-! 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! colspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|Seats|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|Total! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|±|-|style="width: 9px" bgcolor=#FF66FF align="center" ||align=left|Socialist|110,243||39.35||11.8||23||7|-|style="width: 9px" bgcolor=#2A52BE align="center" | |align=left|PSD / CDS–PP / MPT / PPM|108,636||38.78||5.7||23||3|-| |28,025||10.00||2.9||5||2|-| |18,857||6.73||2.7||3||2|-| |2,807||1.00||||0|||-| |2,447||0.87||0.9||0||0|-| |1,204||0.43||0.5||0||0|-|style="width: 9px" bgcolor=#CC0033 align="center" | |align=left|Labour|598||0.21||||0|||-|colspan=2 width="330" align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total valid|width="50" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|272,817|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|97.37|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|1.8|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|54|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|0|-|colspan=2|Blank ballots|4,468||1.59||0.9||colspan=3 rowspan=4||-|colspan=2|Invalid ballots|2,851||1.02||0.7|-|colspan=2 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total|width="50" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|280,136|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"||-|colspan=2|Registered voters/turnout||524,642||53.40||0.7|-| colspan=11 align=left | Source: Lisbon 2009 election results|}

Parish Assemblies

|- class="unsortable"!rowspan=2|Parish!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!rowspan=2|Total
S|- class="unsortable" style="text-align:center;"!colspan=2 | LCS!colspan=2 | PS!colspan=2 | CDU!colspan=2 | BE!colspan=2 | IND|-| style="text-align:left;" | Ajuda| 23.8| 3| style="background:#FF66FF; color:white;"| 35.6| 5| 31.6| 4| 6.4| 1| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | Alcântara| style="background:#2A52BE; color:white;"| 30.8| 4| 29.2| 4| 29.8| 4| 7.4| 1| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | Alto do Pina| style="background:#2A52BE; color:white;"| 50.4| 7| 32.8| 5| 7.9| 1| 5.4| -| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | Alvalade| style="background:#2A52BE; color:white;"| 54.7| 8| 30.2| 4| 6.9| 1| 5.2| -| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | Ameixoeira| style="background:#2A52BE; color:white;"| 35.2| 5| 34.3| 5| 21.4| 3| 5.4| -| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | Anjos| style="background:#2A52BE; color:white;"| 43.6| 6| 34.7| 5| 10.1| 3| 7.5| 1| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | Beato| 22.6| 3| style="background:#FF66FF; color:white;"| 56.6| 9| 11.3| 1| 5.8| -| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | Benfica| 38.3| 8| style="background:#FF66FF; color:white;"| 39.9| 8| 11.3| 2| 7.0| 1| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 19|-| style="text-align:left;" | Campo Grande| style="background:#2A52BE; color:white;"| 43.3| 6| 37.4| 5| 9.5| 3| 6.6| 1| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | Campolide| 36.9| 5| style="background:#FF66FF; color:white;"| 42.4| 6| 11.7| 1| 6.3| 1| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | Carnide| 25.8| 4| 25.6| 3| style="background:#FF0000; color:white;"| 40.8| 6| 4.9| -| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | Castelo| 4.3| -| 38.5| 3| style="background:#FF0000; color:white;"| 50.3| 4| 3.0| -| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 7|-| style="text-align:left;" | Charneca| 28.1| 4| style="background:#FF66FF; color:white;"| 34.3| 5| 23.4| 3| 10.8| 1| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | Coração de Jesus| style="background:#2A52BE; color:white;"| 43.1| 4| 36.6| 4| 9.1| 1| 8.3| -| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 9|-| style="text-align:left;" | Encarnação| 31.9| 3| style="background:#FF66FF; color:white;"| 43.4| 5| 12.5| 1| 8.3| -| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 9|-| style="text-align:left;" | Graça| style="background:#2A52BE; color:white;"| 40.9| 6| 35.8| 5| 11.9| 1| 8.0| 1| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | Lapa| style="background:#2A52BE; color:white;"| 54.9| 8| 25.2| 4| 5.6| -| 4.1| -| 7.4| 1| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | Lumiar| style="background:#2A52BE; color:white;"| 44.8| 10| 35.7| 7| 8.4| 1| 6.0| 1| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 19|-| style="text-align:left;" | Madalena| 29.7| 2| 23.7| 2| style="background:#FF0000; color:white;"| 38.6| 3| 4.0| -| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 7|-| style="text-align:left;" | Mártires| style="background:#2A52BE; color:white;"| 57.4| 5| 32.1| 2| 2.4| -| 5.3| -| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 7|-| style="text-align:left;" | Marvila| 25.8| 5| style="background:#FF66FF; color:white;"| 43.8| 10| 17.0| 3| 6.7| 1| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 19|-| style="text-align:left;" | Mercês| 30.0| 3| style="background:#FF66FF; color:white;"| 43.4| 5| 15.2| 1| 7.5| -| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 9|-| style="text-align:left;" | Nossa Senhora de Fátima| style="background:#2A52BE; color:white;"| 50.4| 7| 32.7| 5| 8.0| 1| 5.5| -| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | Pena| 31.1| 3| style="background:#FF66FF; color:white;"| 32.3| 4| 10.6| 1| 7.2| -| 14.5| 1| 9|-| style="text-align:left;" | Penha de França| 36.0| 5| style="background:#FF66FF; color:white;"| 39.7| 6| 11.6| 1| 8.8| 1| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | Prazeres| style="background:#2A52BE; color:white;"| 42.0| 6| 35.2| 5| 12.7| 1| 7.7| 1| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | Sacramento| 31.0| 3| style="background:#FF66FF; color:white;"| 40.5| 3| 15.9| 1| 8.4| -| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 7|-| style="text-align:left;" | Santa Catarina| 31.0| 3| style="background:#FF66FF; color:white;"| 46.0| 5| 11.4| 1| 8.3| -| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 9|-| style="text-align:left;" | Santa Engrácia| style="background:#2A52BE; color:white;"| 48.9| 5| 30.5| 3| 11.3| 1| 5.3| -| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 9|-| style="text-align:left;" | Santa Isabel| style="background:#2A52BE; color:white;"| 47.3| 7| 30.3| 4| 7.9| 1| 5.3| -| 6.4| 1| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | Santa Justa| 25.9| 2| style="background:#FF66FF; color:white;"| 45.9| 5| 17.0| 1| 7.0| -| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 7|-| style="text-align:left;" | Santa Maria Maior| style="background:#2A52BE; color:white;"| 49.0| 7| 32.6| 5| 9.6| 1| 5.9| -| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | Santa Maria dos Olivais| 33.2| 8| style="background:#FF66FF; color:white;"| 42.2| 10| 12.0| 2| 7.7| 1| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 21|-| style="text-align:left;" | Santiago| 30.5| 2| style="background:#FF66FF; color:white;"| 33.7| 3| 25.1| 2| 6.9| -| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 7|-| style="text-align:left;" | Santo Condestável| 38.0| 5| style="background:#FF66FF; color:white;"| 38.2| 6| 12.4| 1| 7.3| 1| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | Santo Estêvão| 18.6| 2| 32.6| 3| style="background:#FF0000; color:white;"| 39.4| 4| 5.9| -| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 9|-| style="text-align:left;" | Santos-o-Velho| 33.5| 3| style="background:#FF66FF; color:white;"| 40.6| 4| 9.1| 1| 4.7| -| 9.4| 1| 9|-| style="text-align:left;" | São Cristóvão e São Lourenço| 30.2| 3| style="background:#FF66FF; color:white;"| 46.0| 5| 13.8| 1| 6.2| -| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 9|-| style="text-align:left;" | São Domingos de Benfica| style="background:#2A52BE; color:white;"| 45.4| 10| 34.7| 7| 8.6| 1| 5.6| 1| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | São Francisco Xavier| style="background:#2A52BE; color:white;"| 57.7| 8| 27.7| 4| 6.8| 1| 5.1| -| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | São João| 38.2| 5| style="background:#FF66FF; color:white;"| 38.2| 6| 12.7| 1| 7.8| 1| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | São João de Brito| style="background:#2A52BE; color:white;"| 53.8| 8| 28.9| 4| 6.6| 1| 5.2| -| 1.6| -| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | São João de Deus| style="background:#2A52BE; color:white;"| 55.7| 8| 30.0| 4| 6.5| 1| 4.7| -| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | São Jorge de Arroios| style="background:#2A52BE; color:white;"| 44.6| 6| 33.9| 5| 10.9| 1| 7.2| 1| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | São José| style="background:#2A52BE; color:white;"| 41.0| 4| 32.0| 3| 13.2| 1| 8.6| 1| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 9|-| style="text-align:left;" | São Mamede| style="background:#2A52BE; color:white;"| 52.4| 8| 32.4| 5| 6.1| -| 6.1| -| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | São Miguel| 16.2| 1| style="background:#FF66FF; color:white;"| 50.2| 6| 24.9| 2| 4.7| -| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 9|-| style="text-align:left;" | São Nicolau| style="background:#2A52BE; color:white;"| 52.4| 5| 28.3| 3| 8.9| 1| 8.1| -| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 9|-| style="text-align:left;" | São Paulo| 30.1| 3| style="background:#FF66FF; color:white;"| 44.1| 5| 14.3| 1| 8.7| -| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 9|-| style="text-align:left;" | São Sebastião da Pedreira| style="background:#2A52BE; color:white;"| 57.8| 9| 28.6| 5| 4.8| -| 5.7| -| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | Santo Estêvão| 24.9| 2| 27.6| 3| style="background:#FF0000; color:white;"| 38.2| 4| 5.5| -| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 9|-| style="text-align:left;" | Sé| style="background:#2A52BE; color:white;"| 55.1| 6| 26.4| 3| 8.7| -| 4.8| -| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 9|-| style="text-align:left;" | Socorro| 20.8| 2| style="background:#FF66FF; color:white;"| 29.5| 3| 10.4| 1| 5.8| -| 28.7| 3| 9|- class="unsortable" style="background:#E9E9E9"| style="text-align:left;" | Total| style="background:#2A52BE; color:white;"| 39.3| 265| 36.3| 251| 13.3| 80| 6.5| 18| 0.6| 7| 621|-| colspan=15 style="text-align:left;" | Source: Election Results|}

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: António Costa dá maioria absoluta ao PS em Lisboa, num resultado sofrido até às últimas . 2009-09-12. 2024-03-02 . www.publico.pt . pt-PT.
  2. Web site: Ex-vereadora da Câmara de Lisboa ouvida no âmbito do processo Bragaparques . 2007-04-19. 2024-03-02 . www.publico.pt . pt-PT.
  3. Web site: Eleições para Câmara de Lisboa deverão ser a 15 de Julho . 2007-05-19. 2024-03-02 . www.publico.pt . pt-PT.
  4. Web site: António Costa vence eleições para Lisboa . 2007-07-15. 2024-03-02 . www.rtp.pt . pt-PT.
  5. Web site: ::: Lei n.º 169/99, de 18 de Setembro . 2022-02-12 . www.pgdlisboa.pt.
  6. Web site: Autárquicas 2009 - Candidatos . 2024-03-02 . www.eleicoes.mai.gov.pt.

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