2013 Portuguese local elections explained

Election Name:	2013 Portuguese local elections
Country:	Portugal
Type:	parliamentary
Previous Election:	2009 Portuguese local elections
Previous Year:	2009
Next Election:	2017 Portuguese local elections
Next Year:	2017
Seats For Election:	All 308 Portuguese municipalities and 3,092^[1] Portuguese Parishes All 2,086 local government councils
Election Date:	29 September 2013
Turnout:	52.6% 6.4 pp
Opinion Polls:	Opinion polling for the 2013 Portuguese local elections
1Blank:	Mayors
2Blank:	Mayors +/–
3Blank:	Councillors
4Blank:	Councillors +/–
Leader1:	António José Seguro
Party1:	Socialist Party (Portugal)
Last Election1:	132 mayors, 37.7%
Popular Vote1:	1,835,288^[2]
Percentage1:	36.7%
Swing1:	1.0 pp
1Data1:	150^[3]
2Data1:	18
3Data1:	929^[4]
4Data1:	8
Leader2:	Pedro Passos Coelho
Party2:	Social Democratic Party (Portugal)
Last Election2:	139 mayors, 38.7%
Popular Vote2:	1,570,601^[5]
Percentage2:	31.4%
Swing2:	7.3 pp
1Data2:	106^[6]
2Data2:	33
3Data2:	770^[7]
4Data2:	103^[8]
Colour3:	FF0000
Party3:	PCP
Alliance3:	CDU
Last Election3:	28 mayors, 9.8%
Popular Vote3:	552,690
Percentage3:	11.1%
Swing3:	1.3 pp
1Data3:	34
2Data3:	6
3Data3:	213
4Data3:	39

Local elections were held in Portugal on 29 September 2013. The elections consisted of three types of elections in the 308 Portuguese municipalities, namely the elections for the Municipal Chambers, whose winners are automatically elected mayors, similar to first-past-the-post (FPTP), the elections for the Municipal Assemblies, as well as the elections for the lower-level Parish Assemblies, whose winners are elected parish presidents. The latter were held separately in the more than 3,000 parishes around the country. The number of parishes had been reduced by over 1000 due to a local government reform undertaken by the Government led by Pedro Passos Coelho.

The process of submitting candidacies for these elections was marked by differences in the interpretation of the pertinent electoral law. This law prohibits a candidate, after having served for three terms, to run for Mayor, Municipal Assemblies or Parish Assemblies. But the law does not explicitly state whether it prohibits reelection only for the same municipality or parish, or for the same position in any municipality or parish. Candidates affected by this issue included Luís Filipe Menezes (PSD), running in Porto, and Fernando Seara (PSD/CDS–PP), who was standing in Lisbon.

This controversy ended on 5 September 2013 with the decision of the Constitutional Court allowing mayoral candidates that had already served three consecutive mandates to run for election in a different municipality.^[9] With the term limit law, 52 percent of incumbent mayors, 160 to be precise, were barred from running for another term.^[10]

The Socialist Party (PS) won the largest number of municipal chambers in its history surpassing its previous best result in 2009. It also won the largest number of mayorships of any party in the history of Portugal.^[11] The PS also reconquered Coimbra and won in two large strongholds of the Social Democratic Party, Vila Real and Funchal.

The Social Democratic Party (PSD) was the biggest loser of these elections, as it lost almost a third of the municipalities that it had held. However, the PSD did gain several traditionally Socialist bastions like Braga and Guarda. The communist Democratic Unity Coalition won in the cities of Loures, Beja and Évora.

The election was also marked by the strong electoral performances of various independent groups, which won several chambers. The most significant was the victory of independent Rui Moreira in Porto, who was supported by CDS-PP. The Democratic Unity Coalition increased its number of municipal chambers as well as its number of councilors by winning several chambers previously held by the Socialists, including winning back their historical stronghold of Loures. However, despite increasing their overall number of mayors, they also lost three chambers they won in 2009 to the Socialists; Chamusca, Crato, and Nisa. In Chamusca they had held the mayorship since 1979.

The People's Party (CDS-PP) broke a cycle of decline in local elections and won five municipalities, four more than in 2009. The Left Bloc suffered a heavy defeat, losing the only chamber they had, and electing fewer councillors than in 2009.

The turnout in these elections was the lowest ever, with 52.6 percent of voters casting their ballot.

Parties

The main political forces that contested the election were:

• Left Bloc (BE)
• People's Party (CDS–PP) (only in some municipalities)¹
• Democratic Unity Coalition (CDU)
• Socialist Party (PS)
• Social Democratic Party (PSD) (only in some municipalities)¹

¹ The PSD and the CDS–PP also formed coalitions in several municipalities with the Earth Party (MPT) and the People's Monarchist Party (PPM).

Opinion polling

See main article: Opinion polling for the 2013 Portuguese local elections.

Voter turnout

The table below shows voter turnout throughout election day.

Turnout	Time
	12:00			16:00			19:00
	2009	2013	±	2009	2013	±	2009	2013	±
Total	21.23%	19.44%	1.79 pp	45.30%	43.43%	1.87 pp	59.03%	52.60%	6.43 pp
Sources^[12] ^[13]

Results

Municipal Councils

See main article: Results breakdown of the 2013 Portuguese local elections (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"|±|-| |1,812,029||36.26||1.4||303||923||2||149||17|-| |834,455||16.70||6.3||201||531||135||86||31|-| |552,690||11.06||1.3||288||213||39||34||6|-|style="width: 10px" bgcolor=#FF9900 align="center" | |align=left|Social Democratic / People's|379,110||7.59||2.1||73||154||3||16||3|-|style="width: 8px" bgcolor=gray align="center" ||align=left|Independents|344,531||6.89||2.8||94||112||45||13||6|-| |152,073||3.04||0.1||143||47||16||5||4|-| |120,982||2.42||0.6||109||8||1||0||1|-|style="width: 9px" bgcolor=#FF9900 align="center" | |align=left|PSD / CDS–PP / MPT|100,437||2.01||2.0||6||11||2||0||0|- |style="width: 9px" bgcolor=#FF9900 align="center" | |align=left|PSD / CDS–PP / PPM|94,015||1.88||0.1||4||21||6||2||1|- |style="width: 9px" bgcolor=#FF9900 align="center" | |align=left|PSD / PPM|65,102||1.30||—||7||21||—||1||—|-|style="width: 9px" bgcolor=#FF9900 align="center" | |align=left|PSD / PPM / MPT|43,312||0.87||—||7||7||—||0||—|-|style="width: 9px" bgcolor=#FF9900 align="center" | |align=left|PSD/ CDS–PP / MPT / PPM|23,551||0.47||2.5||4||14||7||1||0|-| |23,276||0.47||0.3||27||0||0||0||0|-|style="width: 9px" bgcolor=#FF66FF align="center" ||align=left|PS / BE / PND / MPT / PTP / PAN|21,102||0.42||—||1||5||—||1||—|-|style="width: 9px" bgcolor=#FF9900 align="center" | |align=left|PSD / MPT / PPM|19,804||0.40||—||4||4||—||0||—|-| |16,233||0.32||—||8||0||—||0||—|-|style="width: 8px" bgcolor=#0093DD align="center" ||align=left|CDS–PP / MPT / PPM|9,299||0.19||—||7||1||—||0||—|-|style="width: 9px" bgcolor=#FF9900 align="center" | |align=left|PSD/ CDS–PP / PPM / MPT |8,918||0.18||1.1||4||4||5||0||1|- |style="width: 10px" bgcolor=#CC0033 align="center" | |align=left|Labour|8,552||0.17||—||22||0||—||0||—|-| |6,660||0.13||0.1||8||2||0||0||0|-|style="width: 8px" bgcolor=#0093DD align="center" ||align=left|People's / Social Democratic|4,656||0.09||—||4||4||—||0||—|-|style="width: 8px" bgcolor=#005FAD align="center" ||align=left|PPM / PND / PPV|3,634||0.07||—||1||0||—||0||—|-| |3,002||0.06||0.1||6||0||0||0||0|-|style="width: 8px" bgcolor=#0093DD align="center" ||align=left|People's / Earth |2,931||0.06||0.1||3||0||0||0||0|-|style="width: 9px" bgcolor=#FF66FF align="center" ||align=left|PS / PTP / PND / BE |2,157||0.04||—||1||1||—||0||—|-|style="width: 9px" bgcolor=#FF9900 align="center" | |align=left|Social Democratic / Earth|1,897||0.04||—||2||3||—||0||—|-| |1,272||0.03||0.1||1||0||1||0||0|-|style="width: 8px" bgcolor=#005FAD align="center" ||align=left|People's Monarchist / PPV|856||0.02||—||1||0||—||0||—|-| |455||0.01||0.0||1||0||0||0||0|-|style="width: 10px" bgcolor=#000080 align="center" | |align=left|Portugal Pro-Life|338||0.01||—||1||0||—||0||—|-|colspan=2 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total valid|width="65" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|4,657,329|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|93.18|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|3.8|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|—|width="45" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|2,086|width="45" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|8|width="45" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|308|width="45" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|0|-|colspan=2|Blank ballots|193,471||3.87||2.2||colspan=5 rowspan=4||-|colspan=2|Invalid ballots|147,205||2.95||1.7|-|colspan=2 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total|width="65" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|4,998,005|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"||-|colspan=2|Registered voters/turnout||9,501,103||52.60||6.4|-| colspan=11 align=left | Source: Autárquicas 2013 Resultados Oficiais|}

City control

The following table lists party control in all district capitals, as well as in municipalities above 100,000 inhabitants. Population estimates from 2013.^[14]

Municipality	Population	Previous control		New control
Almada	170,756		Unitary Democratic Coalition (CDU)		Unitary Democratic Coalition (CDU)
Amadora	175,354		Socialist Party (PS)		Socialist Party (PS)
Aveiro	77,229		PSD / CDS–PP		PSD / CDS–PP / PPM
Barcelos	119,563		Socialist Party (PS)		Socialist Party (PS)
Beja	35,024		Socialist Party (PS)		Unitary Democratic Coalition (CDU)
Braga	181,847		Socialist Party (PS)		PSD / CDS–PP / PPM
Bragança	34,681		Social Democratic Party (PSD)		Social Democratic Party (PSD)
Cascais	208,514		PSD / CDS–PP		PSD / CDS–PP
Castelo Branco	54,409		Socialist Party (PS)		Socialist Party (PS)
Coimbra	136,964		PSD / CDS–PP / PPM		Socialist Party (PS)
Évora	55,053		Socialist Party (PS)		Unitary Democratic Coalition (CDU)
Faro	61,749		PSD / CDS–PP / PPM / MPT		PSD / CDS–PP / PPM / MPT
Funchal	108,053		Social Democratic Party (PSD)		PS / BE / PND / MPT / PTP / PAN
Gondomar	167,525		Independent (IND)		Socialist Party (PS)
Guarda	40,994		Socialist Party (PS)		PSD / CDS–PP
Guimarães	156,310		Socialist Party (PS)		Socialist Party (PS)
Leiria	125,977		Socialist Party (PS)		Socialist Party (PS)
Lisbon	516,815		Socialist Party (PS)		Socialist Party (PS)
Loures	203,117		Socialist Party (PS)		Unitary Democratic Coalition (CDU)
Maia	135,924		PSD / CDS–PP		PSD / CDS–PP
Matosinhos	174,690		Socialist Party (PS)		Independent (IND)
Odivelas	151,012		Socialist Party (PS)		Socialist Party (PS)
Oeiras	172,556		Independent (IND)		Independent (IND)
Ponta Delgada	68,768		Social Democratic Party (PSD)		Social Democratic Party (PSD)
Portalegre	23,915		Social Democratic Party (PSD)		Independent (IND)
Porto	222,252		PSD / CDS–PP		Independent (IND)
Santarém	60,257		Social Democratic Party (PSD)		Social Democratic Party (PSD)
Santa Maria da Feira	140,038		Social Democratic Party (PSD)		Social Democratic Party (PSD)
Seixal	162,516		Unitary Democratic Coalition (CDU)		Unitary Democratic Coalition (CDU)
Setúbal	118,689		Unitary Democratic Coalition (CDU)		Unitary Democratic Coalition (CDU)
Sintra	379,756		PSD / CDS–PP / PPM / MPT		Socialist Party (PS)
Viana do Castelo	87,243		Socialist Party (PS)		Socialist Party (PS)
Vila Franca de Xira	139,110		Socialist Party (PS)		Socialist Party (PS)
Vila Nova de Famalicão	133,711		PSD / CDS–PP		PSD / CDS–PP
Vila Nova de Gaia	302,828		PSD / CDS–PP		Socialist Party (PS)
Vila Real	51,009		Social Democratic Party (PSD)		Socialist Party (PS)
Viseu	98,424		Social Democratic Party (PSD)		Social Democratic Party (PSD)

Municipal Assemblies

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"|Mandates|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|Total! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|±|- | |1,746,819||34.95||1.7||||2,659||196|-| |813,835||16.28||5.9||||1,588||536|-| |599,029||11.98||1.4||||747||96|-|style="width: 10px" bgcolor=#FF9900 align="center" | |align=left|Social Democratic / People's|376,056||7.52||1.8||||493||29|-|style="width: 8px" bgcolor=gray align="center" ||align=left|Independents|325,724||6.52||2.8||||352||128|-| |159,921||3.20||0.3||||224||29|-| |157,686||3.15||1.0||||100||39|-|style="width: 9px" bgcolor=#FF9900 align="center" | |align=left|PSD / CDS–PP / MPT|106,725||2.14||2.1||||42||36|- |style="width: 9px" bgcolor=#FF9900 align="center" | |align=left|PSD / CDS–PP / PPM|88,393||1.77||0.0||||72||12|- |style="width: 9px" bgcolor=#FF9900 align="center" | |align=left|PSD / PPM|60,873||1.22||—||||57||—|-|style="width: 9px" bgcolor=#FF9900 align="center" | |align=left|PSD / PPM / MPT|41,307||0.83||—||||18||—|-| |23,776||0.48||—||||5||—|-|style="width: 9px" bgcolor=#FF9900 align="center" | |align=left|PSD/ CDS–PP / MPT / PPM|22,420||0.45||2.5||||37||28|-|style="width: 9px" bgcolor=#FF66FF align="center" ||align=left|PS / BE / PND / MPT / PTP / PAN|20,849||0.42||—||||14||—|-|style="width: 9px" bgcolor=#FF9900 align="center" | |align=left|PSD / MPT / PPM|19,850||0.40||—||||11||—|-| |15,393||0.31||0.2||||2||2|-|style="width: 8px" bgcolor=#0093DD align="center" ||align=left|CDS–PP / MPT / PPM|9,949||0.20||—||||9||—|-|style="width: 9px" bgcolor=#FF9900 align="center" | |align=left|PSD/ CDS–PP / PPM / MPT |8,886||0.18||1.0||||10||12|- | |5,525||0.11||0.1||||11||3|-|style="width: 8px" bgcolor=#0093DD align="center" ||align=left|People's / Social Democratic|4,647||0.09||—||||17||—|-|style="width: 8px" bgcolor=#005FAD align="center" ||align=left|PPM / PND / PPV|4,451||0.09||—||||0||—|-|style="width: 10px" bgcolor=#CC0033 align="center" | |align=left|Labour|4,102||0.08||—||||3||—|-|style="width: 8px" bgcolor=#0093DD align="center" ||align=left|People's / Earth|3,384||0.07||0.1||||3||3|-| |3,247||0.06||0.1||||0||0|-|style="width: 9px" bgcolor=#FF66FF align="center" ||align=left|PS / PTP / PND / BE |2,101||0.04||—||||3||—|-|style="width: 9px" bgcolor=#FF9900 align="center" | |align=left|Social Democratic / Earth|2,008||0.04||—||||8||—|-| |1,505||0.03||0.1||||0||5|-|style="width: 8px" bgcolor=#005FAD align="center" ||align=left|People's Monarchist / PPV|1,046||0.02||—||||0||—|-| |445||0.01||0.0||||2||3|-|colspan=2 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total valid|width="65" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|4,629,952|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|92.63|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|4.1|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|—|width="45" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|6,487|width="45" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|459|-|colspan=2|Blank ballots|215,489||4.31||2.3||colspan=6 rowspan=4||-|colspan=2|Invalid ballots|153,068||3.06||1.8|-|colspan=2 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total|width="65" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|4,998,509|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"||-|colspan=2|Registered voters/turnout||9,501,103||52.61||6.4|-| colspan=11 align=left | Source: Autárquicas 2013 Resultados Oficiais|}

Parish Assemblies

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"|Mandates! colspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|Presidents|- 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"|±|-| |1,733,687||34.69||1.6||||10,838||2,898||1,282||295|-| |815,086||16.31||6.1||||6,927||4,186||912||618|-| |596,324||11.93||1.0||||1,973||293||170||43|-|style="width: 8px" bgcolor=gray align="center" ||align=left|Independents|478,273||9.57||3.5||||2,978||305||342||10|-|style="width: 10px" bgcolor=#FF9900 align="center" | |align=left|Social Democratic / People's|363,145||7.27||1.9||||2,096||815||222||90|-| |139,304||2.79||0.5||||725||33||50||3|-| |115,191||2.30||0.7||||138||97||0||4|-|style="width: 9px" bgcolor=#FF9900 align="center" | |align=left|PSD / CDS–PP / MPT|111,571||2.23||2.2||||322||293||18||16|- |style="width: 9px" bgcolor=#FF9900 align="center" | |align=left|PSD / CDS–PP / PPM|81,096||1.62||0.2||||453||48||44||8|- |style="width: 9px" bgcolor=#FF9900 align="center" | |align=left|PSD / PPM|55,186||1.10||—||||251||—||21||—|-|style="width: 9px" bgcolor=#FF9900 align="center" | |align=left|PSD / PPM / MPT|44,661||0.89||—||||91||—||6||—|-|style="width: 9px" bgcolor=#FF9900 align="center" | |align=left|PSD / MPT / PPM|19,908||0.40||—||||39||—||2||—|-|style="width: 9px" bgcolor=#FF9900 align="center" | |align=left|PSD/ CDS–PP / MPT / PPM|19,397||0.39||2.5||||88||296||3||28|-|style="width: 9px" bgcolor=#FF66FF align="center" ||align=left|PS / BE / PND / MPT / PTP / PAN|18,967||0.38||—||||53||—||5||—|-|style="width: 8px" bgcolor=#0093DD align="center" ||align=left|CDS–PP / MPT / PPM|8,966||0.18||—||||12||—||0||—|-|style="width: 9px" bgcolor=#FF9900 align="center" | |align=left|PSD/ CDS–PP / PPM / MPT |8,344||0.17||0.9||||44||124||2||13|- | |8,003||0.16||0.1||||2||2||0||0|-|style="width: 8px" bgcolor=#005FAD align="center" ||align=left|PPM / PND / PPV|4,729||0.09||—||||0||—||0||—|-| |4,569||0.09||0.1||||18||29||0||2|-|style="width: 8px" bgcolor=#0093DD align="center" ||align=left|People's / Social Democratic|4,303||0.09||—||||63||—||5||—|-| |4,001||0.08||—||||1||—||0||—|-|style="width: 10px" bgcolor=#CC0033 align="center" | |align=left|Labour|2,681||0.05||—||||1||—||0||—|-| |2,670||0.05||0.1||||5||2||0||0|-|style="width: 9px" bgcolor=#FF9900 align="center" | |align=left|Social Democratic / Earth|2,123||0.04||—||||27||—||1||—|-|style="width: 9px" bgcolor=#FF66FF align="center" ||align=left|PS / PTP / PND / BE |2,085||0.04||—||||7||—||0||—|-|style="width: 8px" bgcolor=#0093DD align="center" ||align=left|People's / Earth|1,610||0.03||0.0||||4||1||0||0|-| |716||0.01||0.0||||0||0||0||0|-| |549||0.01||0.0||||11||8||0||0|-|style="width: 10px" bgcolor=red align="center" | |align=left|Communist|57||0.00||—||||0||—||0||—|-|style="width: 8px" bgcolor=#005FAD align="center" ||align=left|People's Monarchist / PPV|47||0.00||—||||0||—||0||—|-|colspan=2 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total valid|width="65" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|4,647,249|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|92.99|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|3.4|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|—|width="45" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|27,167|width="45" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|7,505|width="45" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|3,085|width="45" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|1,022|-|colspan=2|Blank ballots|194,978||3.90||1.8||colspan=5 rowspan=4||-|colspan=2|Invalid ballots|155,271||3.11||1.6|-|colspan=2 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total|width="65" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|4,997,498|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"||-|colspan=2|Registered voters/turnout||9,500,202||52.60||6.4|-| colspan=11 align=left | Source: Autárquicas 2013 Resultados Oficiais|}

See also

• Politics of Portugal
• List of political parties in Portugal
• Elections in Portugal

External links

• Official site Autárquicas 2013
• Official results site, Portuguese Justice Ministry
• Portuguese Electoral Commission
• ERC - Official publication of polls

Notes and References

1. http://www.dgai.mai.gov.pt/cms/files/conteudos/file/administracao_eleitoral/RATF/Totais_JF_Distrito_Reg_Autonomas_RATF.pdf DGAI - Reorganização Administrativa do Território das Freguesias - (RATF)
2. Sum of votes between PS-only lists and lists with other parties.
3. Number of municipalities won between PS-only lists and lists with other parties. PS-only lists: 149; PS-coalition lists: 1.
4. This accounts for seats won on PS-only lists and lists with other parties. The PS ran on joint lists in two municipalities in this election, and ran joint lists in no municipalities in 2009. In the municipalities where they ran on joint lists, those lists received a combined 6 seats.
5. Sum of votes between PSD-only lists and lists with other parties.
6. Number of municipalities won between PSD-only lists and lists with other parties. PSD-only lists: 86; PSD-coalition lists: 20.
7. This accounts for seats won on PSD-only lists and lists with other parties.
8. This decrease is also relative to the number of seats won on PSD-only lists and lists with other parties in 2009.
9. Web site: Tribunal Constitucional dá luz verde aos candidatos autárquicos com três mandatos. . 5 September 2013. 8 September 2013. Público . pt.
10. Web site: Limitação de mandatos autárquicos renovou poder local em 2013 . www.rtp.pt/. RTP. 30 May 2017. 16 July 2023. pt.
11. https://expresso.sapo.pt/ha-uma-nova-relacao-de-confianca-entre-os-portugueses-e-o-ps-diz-seguro=f833036 New relationship of trust between Portuguese people and PS, says Seguro
12. Web site: Autárquicas 2013 - Afluência. pt . eleicoes.mai.gov.pt/autarquicas2013/index.html. . 9 June 2023.
13. Web site: Autárquicas 2009 - Afluência. pt . eleicoes.mai.gov.pt/autarquicas2009/index.html. . 9 June 2023.
14. Web site: População residente 2013. www.ine.pt. . pt . 28 March 2021.