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| Election Name: | 2013 Lisbon local elections |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Previous Election: | 2009 Lisbon local election |
| Previous Year: | 2009 |
| Next Election: | 2017 Lisbon local election |
| Next Year: | 2017 |
| Election Date: | 29 September 2013 |
| Seats For Election: | All 17 Councillors in the Lisbon City Council |
| Majority Seats: | 9 |
| Turnout: | 45.1% 8.4 pp |
| Opinion Polls: | 2013 Lisbon local election#Opinion polling |
| Leader1: | António Costa |
| Party1: | Socialist Party (Portugal) |
| Last Election1: | 9 seats, 44.0% |
| Popular Vote1: | 116,425 |
| Seats1: | 11 |
| Seat Change1: | 2 |
| Percentage1: | 50.9% |
| Swing1: | 6.9 pp |
| Leader2: | Fernando Seara |
| Party2: | Social Democratic Party (Portugal) |
| Alliance2: | Feel Lisbon |
| Colour2: | 2A52BE |
| Last Election2: | 7 seats, 38.7% |
| Popular Vote2: | 51,156 |
| Seats2: | 4 |
| Seat Change2: | 3 |
| Percentage2: | 22.4% |
| Swing2: | 16.3 pp |
| Leader4: | João Ferreira |
| Party4: | Portuguese Communist Party |
| Alliance4: | CDU |
| Colour4: | ff0000 |
| Last Election4: | 1 seats, 8.1% |
| Popular Vote4: | 22,519 |
| Seats4: | 2 |
| Seat Change4: | 1 |
| Percentage4: | 9.9% |
| Swing4: | 1.8 pp |
| Leader5: | João Semedo |
| Party5: | Left Bloc (Portugal) |
| Last Election5: | 0 seats, 4.6% |
| Popular Vote5: | 10,533 |
| Seats5: | 0 |
| Percentage5: | 4.6% |
| Swing5: | 0.0 pp |
| Mayor | |
| Before Election: | António Costa |
| Before Party: | Socialist Party (Portugal) |
| After Election: | António Costa |
| After Party: | Socialist Party (Portugal) |
The 2013 Lisbon local election was held on 29 September 2013 to elect the members of the Lisbon City Council.
Against a weak opposition, António Costa, mayor since 2007, was elected for a full second term, defeating Fernando Seara, by then incumbent and term limited mayor of Sintra, of the Feel Lisbon coalition between the Social Democratic Party (PSD), CDS–People's Party (CDS–PP) and Earth Party (MPT) by a landslide, 51 to 22 percent.[1] Seara's candidacy was surrounded in controversy due to the recent changes in the law that established term limits for mayors. This law prohibits a candidate, after having served for three terms, to run for Mayor, Municipal Assemblies or Parish Assemblies. But the law did not explicitly state whether it prohibits reelection only for the same municipality or parish, or for the same position in any municipality or parish.[2] This matter was only resolved on 5 September 2013 with a ruling of the Constitutional Court allowing mayoral candidates that had already served three consecutive mandates to run for election in a different municipality.[3]
The Unitary Democratic Coalition presented incumbent MEP João Ferreira as their mayoral candidate and won nearly 10 percent of the votes and gained one seat, electing two in total. The Left Bloc, presented João Semedo as candidate for Mayor, but failed to win a seat.
Turnout was the second lowest ever, just 45.1 percent casting a ballot, surpassed only by the 2007 numbers.
In the 2009 election, the Socialist Party led by António Costa, won an absolute majority with 44 percent of the votes and 9 councillors, defeating former Lisbon mayor and Prime Minister Pedro Santana Lopes that gathered nearly 39 percent of the votes and 7 councillors.[4]
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]
| Party/Coalition | Political position | Candidate[6] | 2009 result | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes (%) | Seats | ||||||
| PS | Socialist Party | Centre-left | António Costa | 44.0% | |||
| SL | Feel Lisbon | Centre-right | Fernando Seara | 38.7% | |||
| CDU | Unitary Democratic Coalition | Left-wing to far-left | João Ferreira | 8.1% | |||
| BE | Left Bloc | Left-wing to far-left | João Semedo | 4.6% | |||
| PCTP | Portuguese Workers' Communist Party | Far-left | Joana Miranda | 0.7% | |||
| PNR | National Renovator Party | Far-right | João Patrocínio | 0.3% | |||
| PTP | Portuguese Labour Party | Centre-left | Amândio Madaleno | ||||
| PC | Citizen's Platform | Right-wing | José Jorge Andrade | ||||
| PAN | Party for Animals and Nature | Centre-left | Paulo Borges | ||||
| Polling firm/Link | Fieldwork date | Sample size | PS | PSD CDS MPT | CDU | BE | Lead | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 local election | data-sort-value="2019-10-06" | 29 Sep 2013 | 50.9 | 22.4 | 9.9 | 4.6 | 12.2 | 28.5 | |||
| UCP–CESOP | data-sort-value="2019-10-06" | 29 Sep 2013 | 9,663 | 51.0– 55.0 | 21.0– 24.0 | 9.0– 12.0 | 4.0– 6.0 | – | 30.0– 31.0 | ||
| Eurosondagem | data-sort-value="2019-10-06" | 29 Sep 2013 | 7,597 | 52.0– 56.2 | 21.2– 25.0 | 8.7– 11.5 | 4.8– 7.0 | – | 30.8– 31.2 | ||
| Aximage | 23–27 Sep 2013 | 605 | 49.5 | 31.7 | 7.9 | 6.7 | 4.2 | 17.8 | |||
| UCP–CESOP Seats projection | 21–23 Sep 2013 | 1,223 | 48.0 9 / 10 | 26.0 5 | 11.0 1 / 2 | 7.0 1 | 8.0 – | 22.0 | |||
| Eurosondagem Seats projection | 8–10 Sep 2013 | 825 | 50.0 9 / 10 | 26.9 5 | 11.0 1 / 2 | 6.6 1 | 5.5 – | 23.1 | |||
| Eurosondagem Seats projection | 4–5 Aug 2013 | 707 | 50.5 9 / 10 | 29.5 5 / 6 | 8.8 1 | 6.3 1 | 4.9 – | 21.0 | |||
| Eurosondagem Seats projection | 15–16 Jul 2013 | 825 | 52.5 9 / 10 | 27.5 5 / 6 | 9.0 1 | 6.9 0 / 1 | 4.1 – | 25.0 | |||
| Sociologest | 14–18 Jun 2013 | 600 | 57.5 | 20.1 | 9.9 | 3.5 | 8.9 | 37.4 | |||
| Eurosondagem Seats projection | 16–19 May 2013 | 811 | 52.1 9 / 10 | 30.0 5 / 6 | 8.6 1 | 5.3 0 / 1 | 4.0 – | 22.1 | |||
| Sociologest | 6–11 May 2013 | 600 | 49.7 | 33.8 | 6.7 | 5.7 | 5.1 | 15.9 | |||
| 2009 local election | data-sort-value="2019-10-06" | 11 Oct 2009 | 44.0 | 38.7 | 8.1 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 5.3 | |||
|-| 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|116,425||50.91||6.9||11||2|-|style="width: 9px" bgcolor=#2A52BE align="center" | |align=left|PSD / CDS–PP / MPT|51,156||22.37||16.3||4||3|-| |22,519||9.85||1.8||2||1|-| |10,533||4.61||0.0||0||0|-| |5,227||2.29||||0|||-|style="width: 9px" bgcolor=blue align="center" | |align=left|PPM / PPV / PND|2,814||1.23||||0|||-| |2,378||1.04||0.3||0||0|-| |1,182||0.52||0.2||0||0|-|style="width: 9px" bgcolor=#CC0033 align="center" | |align=left|Labour|656||0.29||||0|||-|colspan=2 width="330" align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total valid|width="50" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|212,890|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|93.10|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|4.3|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|17|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|0|-|colspan=2|Blank ballots|9,241||4.04||2.5||colspan=3 rowspan=4||-|colspan=2|Invalid ballots|6,551||2.86||1.8|-|colspan=2 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total|width="50" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|228,682|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"||-|colspan=2|Registered voters/turnout||507,495||45.06||8.3|-| colspan=11 align=left | Source: Lisbon 2013 election results|}
|-| 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|97,114||42.34||3.0||25||2|-|style="width: 9px" bgcolor=#2A52BE align="center" | |align=left|PSD / CDS–PP / MPT|57,182||24.93||13.9||14||9|-| |27,257||11.88||1.9||7||2|-| |15,852||6.91||0.2||4||1|-| |6,827||2.98||||1|||-|style="width: 9px" bgcolor=blue align="center" | |align=left|PPM / PPV / PND|3,443||1.50||||0|||-| |2,841||1.24||0.3||0||0|-| |1,326||0.52||0.2||0||0|-|style="width: 9px" bgcolor=#CC0033 align="center" | |align=left|Labour|778||0.34||||0|||-|colspan=2 width="330" align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total valid|width="50" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|212,620|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|92.70|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|4.7|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|51|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|3|-|colspan=2|Blank ballots|9,951||4.34||2.7||colspan=3 rowspan=4||-|colspan=2|Invalid ballots|6,778||2.96||2.0|-|colspan=2 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total|width="50" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|229,359|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"||-|colspan=2|Registered voters/turnout||507,495||45.19||8.2|-| colspan=11 align=left | Source: Lisbon 2013 election results|}
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S|- class="unsortable" style="text-align:center;"!colspan=2 | PS!colspan=2 | SL!colspan=2 | CDU!colspan=2 | BE!colspan=2 | IND!colspan=2 | PAN|-| style="text-align:left;" | Ajuda| style="background:#FF66FF; color:white;"| 50.7| 8| 11.2| 1| 25.8| 1| 5.3| -| colspan="4" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | Alcântara| style="background:#FF66FF; color:white;"| 33.6| 5| 26.5| 4| 19.5| 3| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 10.1| 1| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | Alvalade| style="background:#FF66FF; color:white;"| 37.0| 8| 34.9| 8| 10.0| 2| 5.6| 1| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 3.5| -| 19|-| style="text-align:left;" | Areeiro| 35.4| 5| style="background:#2A52BE; color:white;"| 37.1| 6| 9.2| 1| 6.8| 1| colspan="4" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | Arroios| style="background:#FF66FF; color:white;"| 37.5| 9| 28.6| 6| 11.4| 2| 6.7| 2| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 4.2| 1| 19|-| style="text-align:left;" | Avenidas Novas| 33.5| 8| style="background:#2A52BE; color:white;"| 34.5| 8| 8.1| 1| 5.3| 1| 7.8| 1| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 19|-| style="text-align:left;" | Beato| style="background:#FF66FF; color:white;"| 64.1| 10| 12.7| 2| 10.6| 1| 4.7| 2| colspan="4" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | Belém| 32.3| 5| style="background:#2A52BE; color:white;"| 42.8| 7| 9.1| 1| 4.6| -| colspan="4" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | Benfica| style="background:#FF66FF; color:white;"| 47.5| 11| 22.5| 5| 12.0| 2| 5.9| 1| colspan="4" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 19|-| style="text-align:left;" | Campo de Ourique| style="background:#FF66FF; color:white;"| 41.4| 9| 29.8| 7| 12.1| 2| 6.7| 1| colspan="4" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 19|-| style="text-align:left;" | Campolide| style="background:#FF66FF; color:white;"| 56.8| 9| 19.7| 3| 11.0| 1| 4.8| 1| colspan="4" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | Carnide| 23.8| 4| 16.6| 2| style="background:#FF0000; color:white;"| 46.1| 7| 3.6| -| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 2.1| -| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | Estrela| 36.0| 6| style="background:#2A52BE; color:white;"| 36.4| 6| 10.4| 1| 4.0| -| 4.3| -| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | Lumiar| style="background:#FF66FF; color:white;"| 40.3| 9| 31.7| 7| 10.2| 2| 5.9| 1| colspan="4" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 19|-| style="text-align:left;" | Marvila| style="background:#FF66FF; color:white;"| 44.8| 11| 15.3| 3| 18.7| 4| 6.4| 1| colspan="4" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 19|-| style="text-align:left;" | Misericórdia| style="background:#FF66FF; color:white;"| 45.5| 7| 19.6| 3| 17.1| 2| 8.1| 1| colspan="4" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | Olivais| style="background:#FF66FF; color:white;"| 43.4| 12| 17.3| 3| 13.3| 3| 5.0| 1| 9.7| 2| 2.4| -| 19|-| style="text-align:left;" | Parque das Nações| 28.8| 4| 12.8| 2| 7.0| 1| 3.1| -| style="background:gray; color:white;"| 40.9| 6| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | Penha de França| style="background:#FF66FF; color:white;"| 43.5| 9| 21.8| 5| 14.1| 3| 6.9| 1| 5.4| 1| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 19|-| style="text-align:left;" | Santa Clara| style="background:#FF66FF; color:white;"| 40.2| 6| 23.9| 4| 20.9| 3| 5.5| -| colspan="4" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | Santa Maria Maior| style="background:#FF66FF; color:white;"| 40.3| 6| 23.5| 3| 20.7| 3| 6.2| 1| colspan="4" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | Santo António| 33.8| 5| style="background:#2A52BE; color:white;"| 41.8| 6| 10.5| 1| 6.8| 1| colspan="4" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | São Domingos de Benfica| style="background:#FF66FF; color:white;"| 38.8| 9| 32.5| 7| 11.2| 2| 5.9| 1| colspan="4" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 19|-| style="text-align:left;" | São Vicente| style="background:#FF66FF; color:white;"| 33.9| 5| 26.4| 4| 22.0| 3| 7.9| 1| colspan="4" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 13|- class="unsortable" style="background:#E9E9E9"| style="text-align:left;" | Total| style="background:#FF66FF; color:white;"| 40.1| 178| 26.2| 112| 14.3| 55| 5.6| 15| 3.0| 11| 0.9| 1| 372|-| colspan=17 style="text-align:left;" | Source: Election Results|}