European elections, 6 – 9 June 2024, country sheet PORTUGAL
Official EE24 website: https://www.cne.pt/content/eleicoes-para-o-parlamento-europeu-2024
Other elections/referenda held the same day: No
Number of MEPs before/after EE24: 21/21
Current government: Democratic Alliance (AD), centre-right coalition of parties in EPP (PSD, CDS-PP and PPM)
ELECTORAL RULES
- Obligatory vote: No
- Number of constituencies: 1
- Preferential vote: No
- Postal vote: No
- Threshold to get elected: No
- Day of EE24: Sunday 9 June
- Opening time of polling stations: 9:00 CEST
- Closing time of polling stations: 20:00 CEST; 21:00 in Azores
VOTERS
- Total: 10 883 512 (Dec 2023)
- Minimum age: 18
CANDIDATES
- Lists (total): 17
- Candidates (total): 478 (357 full candidates + 121 substitutes)
- Minimum age to stand as candidate: 18
Lead candidates per list or party (affiliation) (In bold those represented in outgoing EP)
- Partido Socialista (PS, S&D) – Marta Temido
- Aliança Democrática (AD, EPP – PSD/CDS-PP/PPM) – Sebastião Bugalho
- Bloco de Esquerda (BE, GUE/NGL) – Catarina Martins
- Coligação Democrática Unitária (CDU, GUE/NGL) – João Oliveira
- Pessoas-Animais-Natureza (PAN, Greens) – Pedro Marques
- Chega – António Tanger Corrêa
- Iniciativa Liberal (IL) – João Cotrim de Figueiredo
- Livre – Francisco Paupério
MEPs re-running (in bold lead candidate of list)
- Lídia Pereira (PSD, running in coalition with CDS-PP)
- Vasco Becker Weinberg (CDS-PP, running in coalition with PSD)
- Vânia Neto (PSD)
- Teófilo dos Santos (PSD)
- Ricardo Morgado (PSD)
- José Gusmão (BE)
- Anabela Rodrigues (BE)
- Sandra Pereira (CDU)
- João Pimenta Lopes (CDU)
RESULTS 2019
MEPs / % votes
- PS / 9 / 33,38%
- PSD / 6 / 21,94%
- BE / 2 / 9,82%
- CDU / 2 / 6,88%
- CDS-PP / 2 / 6,19%
- PAN / 1 / 5,08%
TURNOUT 2019
- 30,43%
Source – EU Parliament