District of Porto | |
Native Name Lang: | pt |
Settlement Type: | District |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Portugal |
Subdivision Type1: | Region |
Subdivision Name1: | Norte |
Subdivision Type2: | Historical province |
Subdivision Name2: | Douro Litoral |
Subdivision Type3: | No. of municipalities |
Subdivision Name3: | 18 |
Subdivision Type4: | No. of parishes |
Subdivision Name4: | 383 |
Seat Type: | Capital |
Seat: | Porto |
Unit Pref: | Metric |
Area Total Km2: | 2,395 |
Population Total: | 1,817,172 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Iso Code: | PT-13 |
Blank Name Sec1: | No. of parliamentary representatives |
Blank Info Sec1: | 39 |
The District of Porto (Portuguese: Distrito do Porto pronounced as /pt/) is located on the north-west coast of Portugal. The district capital is the city of Porto, the second largest city in the country. It is bordered by the Aveiro and Viseu districts to the south, Braga district to the north and Vila Real district to the east.
Its area is and its population is 1,817,172. In 2017, the main legal foreign populations were from Brazil (9,442), China (2,475), Ukraine (2,160), Italy (1,273), Spain (1,189), Angola (1,118), and Cape Verde (1,040). These numbers exclude those who obtained Portuguese citizenship, which is regular among recent Portuguese Brazilians or Portuguese-Africans.[1]
The district comprises 18 municipalities:
All of the above Municipalities are Cities, except Baião and Lousada.Some municipalities include one or more cities;the municipality of Paredes has the most cities within its municipality: Paredes, Gandra, Rebordosa and São Salvador de Lordelo.Other cities in Porto district: Rio Tinto and Valbom (in Gondomar municipality), Ermesinde (in Valongo municipality),São Mamede de Infesta (in Matosinhos municipality),Freamunde (in Paços de Ferreira municipality) andLixa (in Felgueiras municipality).
Porto Airport /Oporto Int.(OPO) Sá Carneiro, mostly located in Pedras Rubras, Moreira, Maia, Grande Porto.
Leixões in Matosinhos, Porto area.
See main article: Porto (Assembly of the Republic constituency). |- class="unsortable"!rowspan=2|Parties!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S|- class="unsortable" align="center"!colspan=2 | 1976!colspan=2 | 1979!colspan=2 | 1980!colspan=2 | 1983!colspan=2 | 1985!colspan=2 | 1987!colspan=2 | 1991!colspan=2 | 1995!colspan=2 | 1999!colspan=2 | 2002!colspan=2 | 2005!colspan=2 | 2009!colspan=2 | 2011!colspan=2 | 2015!colspan=2 | 2019!colspan=2 | 2022|-| align="left"| PS || style="background:#FF66FF;"|40.7 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|18 || 34.8 || 14 || 34.3 || 14 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|43.0 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|18 || 23.6 || 10 || 26.7 || 11 || 32.9 || 13 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|46.7 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|18 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|48.0 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|19 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|41.2 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|17 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|48.5 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|20 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|41.8 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|18 || 32.0 || 14 || 32.7 || 14 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|36.7 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|17 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|42.5 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|19|-| align="left"| PSD || 27.0 || 11 || align=center colspan=4 rowspan=2|In AD || 26.2 || 10 || style="background:#FF9900;"|29.3 || style="background:#FF9900;"|12 || style="background:#FF9900;"|50.9 || style="background:#FF9900;"|22 || style="background:#FF9900;"|51.3 || style="background:#FF9900;"|21 || 36.4 || 14 || 32.7 || 13 || 40.0 || 16 || 27.8 || 12 || 29.2 || 12 || style="background:#FF9900;"|39.2 || style="background:#FF9900;"|17 || align=center colspan=2 rowspan=2|In PàF || 31.2 || 15 || 32.3 || 14|-| align="left"| CDS-PP || 15.7 || 6 || 12.5 || 5 || 9.8 || 4 || 4.0 || 1 || 4.1 || 1 || 7.8 || 3 || 7.5 || 3 || 8.4 || 3 || 6.9 || 2 || 9.3 || 4 || 10.0 || 4 || 3.3 || 1 || 1.5|-| align="left"| PCP/APU/CDU || 8.4 || 3 || 14.5 || 6 || 11.9 || 5 || 13.6 || 5 || 12.1 || 5 || 9.4 || 4 || 6.4 || 2 || 6.0 || 2 || 6.2 || 2 || 4.6 || 1 || 5.4 || 2 || 5.7 || 2 || 6.2 || 2 || 6.8 || 3 || 4.8 || 2 || 3.3 || 1|-| align="left"| AD || colspan=2| || style="background:#00FFFF;"|44.5 || style="background:#00FFFF;"|18 || style="background:#00FFFF;"|46.6 || style="background:#00FFFF;"|19 || colspan=26| |-| align="left"| PRD || colspan=8| || 20.5 || 8 || 4.0 || 1 || colspan=20||-| align="left"| BE || colspan=16| || 2.3 || || 2.7 || 1 || 6.7 || 2 || 9.2 || 3 || 5.1 || 2 || 11.1 || 5 || 10.1 || 4 || 4.8 || 2|-| align="left"| PàF || colspan=26| || style="background:#00AAAA;"|39.6 || style="background:#00AAAA;"|17 || colspan=4||-| align="left"| PAN || colspan=28| || 3.5 || 1 || 1.7|-| align="left"| IL || colspan=28| || 1.5 || || 5.1 || 2|-| align="left"| CHEGA || colspan=28| || 0.6 || || 4.4 || 2|-! Total seats || colspan=8| 38 || colspan=4|39 || colspan=6|37 || colspan=4|38 || colspan=6|39 || colspan=4|40|-! colspan=33|Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições|}