2025 Amadora local election

Main article: 2025 Portuguese local elections
2025 Amadora local elections
12 October 2025
All 11 Councillors in the Amadora City Council
6 seats needed for a majority
Turnout49.4% 6.7 pp
  First party Second party
 
Leader Vítor Ferreira Suzana Garcia
Party PS PSD
Alliance Amadora Resolves[a]
Last election 7 seats, 43.9% 3 seats, 25.2%[b]
Seats won 4 4
Seat change 3 1
Popular vote 23,373 21,122
Percentage 33.3% 30.1%
Swing 10.6 pp 5.6 pp
  Third party Fourth party
 
Leader Rui Paulo Sousa João Pimenta Lopes
Party CH PCP
Alliance CDU
Last election 0 seats, 5.4% 1 seat, 9.9%
Seats won 2 1
Seat change 2 0
Popular vote 12,406 4,962
Percentage 17.7% 7.1%
Swing 12.3 pp 2.8 pp
Mayor before election

Vítor Ferreira
PS

Elected mayor

Vítor Ferreira
PS

The 2025 Amadora local election was held on 12 October 2025 in the municipality of Amadora, Portugal, to elect the members for Amadora City Council, Amadora Municipal Assembly and the city's six parish assemblies.[1]

The Socialist Party chose incumbent mayor Vítor Ferreira as their candidate, while the Social Democratic Party renewed their coalition with the CDS – People's Party and other smaller parties, repeating their 2021 candidate, Suzana Garcia. The Unitary Democratic Coalition ran MEP João Pimenta Lopes, while Chega announced MP Rui Paulo Sousa as their mayoral candidate. The Left Bloc has as candidate former MEP Anabela Rodrigues[2] and the Liberal Initiative (IL) had Eduardo Conceição as their mayoral candidate.[3]

Vítor Ferreira (PS) won a full term as mayor, although by a narrow margin, and losing more than 10% of share, plus the majority in the municipal council, held by the party since 2001. The PSD/CDS led-coalition achieved its best result in more than 40 years in a local election in Amadora, with 30% of the votes and tying with the PS in number of councillors, each with four. Chega surged to almost 18% of the votes, while CDU scored its worst result ever, just 7% of the votes and 1 councillor.[4] Turnout stood at 49.4%, the highest share since 1997.

Background

Incumbent Mayor Vítor Ferreira, from the Socialist Party (PS), became mayor in July 2024, after the then mayor, Carla Tavares, who had been elected MEP in the 2024 European elections, resigned from office.[5] Carla Tavares was in office for 11 years, having been first elected in 2013, and reelected in both 2017 and 2021.[6]

In the 2021 election, the PS held on to their majority with nearly 44% of the votes and elected 7 councillors. The PSD/CDS coalition, led by Suzana Garcia gathered 24.6% of the votes and 3 councillors, the best showing for the coalition in 20 years.[7] On the other hand, the Unitary Democratic Coalition (CDU), led by António Borges, achieved their worst result ever in Amadora, just 9.9% and 1 councillor. Just for comparison, 8 years prior, in the 2013 elections, CDU polled 2nd with 19% of the votes. Chega (CH) and the Left Bloc (BE) tied at around 5% and failed to win any councillor.

Electoral system

Each party or coalition must present a list of candidates. The winner of the most voted list for the municipal council is automatically elected mayor, similar to first-past-the-post (FPTP). 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.[8][9]

Parties and candidates

Party/Coalition Political
position 		Candidate 2021 result Ref.
Votes (%) Seats
PS Socialist Party
Partido Socialista 		Centre-left Vítor Ferreira 43.9%
7 / 11
 [2]
AR
Amadora Resolves
(Amadora Resolve) 		PPD/PSD Social Democratic Party
Partido Social Democrata 		Center-right Suzana Garcia 24.6%
2 / 11
 [10][2]
CDS–PP CDS – People's Party
CDS – Partido Popular 		Center-right
to right-wing
1 / 11
MPT Earth Party
Partido da Terra 		Center-right
0 / 11
PPM People's Monarchist Party
Partido Popular Monárquico 		Right-wing 0.6%
0 / 11
RIR React, Include, Recycle
Reagir, Incluir, Reciclar 		Centre
0 / 11
CDU Unitary Democratic Coalition
Coligação Democrática Unitária PCP, PEV 		Left-wing
to far-left 		João Pimenta Lopes 9.9%
1 / 11
 [2]
CH Enough!
Chega! 		Far-right Rui Paulo Sousa 5.4%
0 / 11
 [2]
BE Left Bloc
Bloco de Esquerda 		Left-wing
to far-left 		Anabela Rodrigues 5.3%
0 / 11
 [2]
IL Liberal Initiative
Iniciativa Liberal 		Centre-right
to right-wing 		Eduardo Conceição 2.8%
0 / 11
 [3]
L FREE
LIVRE 		Left-wing Hugo Lourenço N/a N/a [2]

Opinion polling

Polling firm/Link Fieldwork date Sample size PS AR CDU CH BE IL L O Lead
PSD CDS PPM RIR
2025 local election[11] 12 Oct 2025 N/a 33.3
4 		30.1
4 		7.1
1 		17.7
2 		1.8
0 		2.9
0 		3.6
0 		3.5
0 		3.2
2025 Legislative election 18 May 2025 N/a 28.8
(4) 		24.0
(3) 		0.1
(0) 		0.1
(0) 		4.1
(0) 		21.2
(3) 		2.7
(0) 		6.1
(0) 		6.3
(1) 		6.6
(0) 		4.8
2024 EP election 9 Jun 2024 N/a 36.7
(6) 		22.3
(3) 		0.1
(0) 		5.5
(0) 		10.8
(1) 		5.3
(0) 		8.9
(1) 		4.9
(0) 		5.5
(0) 		14.4
2024 Legislative election 10 Mar 2024 N/a 33.9
(5) 		21.4
(3) 		0.2
(0) 		4.3
(0) 		17.1
(3) 		5.4
(0) 		5.5
(0) 		4.9
(0) 		7.3
(0) 		12.5
2022 Legislative election 30 Jan 2022 N/a 47.5
(7) 		19.4
(3) 		1.3
(0) 		N/a 0.3
(0) 		5.8
(0) 		7.7
(1) 		5.0
(0) 		5.7
(0) 		2.0
(0) 		5.3
(0) 		28.1
2021 local election 26 Sep 2021 N/a 43.9
7 		24.6
3 		0.6
0 		9.9
1 		5.4
0 		5.3
0 		2.8
0 		N/a 7.5
0 		19.3

Results

Municipal Council

Summary of the 12 October 2025 Amadora City Council elections results
Parties Votes % ±pp swing Councillors
Total ±
Socialist 23,373 33.34 10.6 4 3
PSD / CDS–PP / PPM / MPT / RIR 21,122 30.15 5.6 4 1
CHEGA 12,406 17.71 12.3 2 2
Unitary Democratic Coalition 4,962 7.08 2.8 1 0
LIVRE 2,523 3.60 N/a 0 N/a
Liberal Initiative 2,061 2.94 0.1 0 0
Left Bloc 1,288 1.84 3.5 0 0
National Democratic Alternative 334 0.48 N/a 0 N/a
Total valid 68,069 97.15 1.2 11 0
Blank ballots 1,137 1.62 0.8
Invalid ballots 857 1.22 0.4
Total 70,063 100.00
Registered voters/turnout 142,579 49.14 6.4
Source:[12]

Municipal Assembly

Summary of the 12 October 2025 Amadora Municipal Assembly elections
results
Parties Votes % ±pp swing Seats
Total ±
Socialist 22,196 31.68 9.1 12 3
PSD / CDS–PP / PPM / MPT / RIR 19,466 27.79 3.5 10 1
CHEGA 13,330 19.03 12.2 7 5
Unitary Democratic Coalition 5,508 7.86 3.3 2 2
LIVRE 3,364 4.80 N/a 1 N/a
Liberal Initiative 2,542 3.63 N/a 1 N/a
Left Bloc 1,543 2.20 4.6 0 2
Total valid 67,949 96.99 1.6 33 0
Blank ballots 1,268 1.81 1.2
Invalid ballots 840 1.20 0.4
Total 70,057 100.00
Registered voters/turnout 142,579 49.14 6.4
Source:[12]

Parish Assemblies

Results of the 12 October 2025 Amadora Parish Assembly elections
Parish % S % S % S % S % S Total
S
PS AR CH CDU L
Águas Livres 31.1 6 27.3 6 18.5 4 9.5 2 4.5 1 19
Alfragide 38.5 6 31.5 5 14.4 2 5.1 - 13
Encosta do Sol 38.6 9 22.4 5 20.1 4 7.9 1 3.5 - 19
Falagueira-Venda Nova 40.2 6 22.9 3 17.2 3 9.6 1 13
Mina de Água 30.3 7 28.9 6 21.4 4 7.2 1 4.3 1 19
Venteira 29.8 6 30.1 7 16.9 3 8.9 2 5.4 1 19
Total 33.7 40 27.4 32 18.6 20 8.1 7 3.4 3 102
Source:[13]

Notes

  1. ^ Supported by the Social Democratic Party (PSD), CDS – People's Party (CDS–PP), People's Monarchist Party (PPM), Earth Party (MPT) and React, Include, Recycle (RIR).
  2. ^ Sum of the results of the 2021 PSD/CDS–PP/Alliance/MPT/PDR coalition (24.6%) with the 2021 PPM/RIR coalition (0.6%).

References

  1. ^ ECO (16 August 2025). "Autárquicas na Amadora: presidente novato contra forasteiro do Chega e terramoto laranja". ECO (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 21 August 2025.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g "PS recandidata autarca Vítor Ferreira à Amadora". Observador (in Portuguese). 7 August 2025. Retrieved 26 August 2025.
  3. ^ a b "Habitação não é favor, é base de dignidade e mobilidade social". Facebook Iniciativa Liberal Amadora (in Portuguese). 26 August 2025. Retrieved 27 August 2025.
  4. ^ "Vítor Ferreira assume vitória na Amadora (mas lamenta maioria relativa)". Notícias ao Minuto (in Portuguese). 13 October 2025. Retrieved 17 October 2025.
  5. ^ "Autarca da Amadora cessa funções na 2.ª-feira após ser eleita para o PE". Notícias ao Minuto (in European Portuguese). 11 July 2024. Retrieved 26 August 2025.
  6. ^ "Carla Tavares vence estrela da televisão na Amadora". Correio da Manhã (in European Portuguese). 27 September 2021. Retrieved 26 August 2025.
  7. ^ "Resultados autárquicas: Suzana Garcia assume responsabilidade por falhar vitória na Amadora". Público (in European Portuguese). 27 September 2021. Retrieved 26 August 2025.
  8. ^ "Lei n.º 169/99, de 18 de Setembro". www.pgdlisboa.pt. Retrieved 12 February 2022.
  9. ^ "Eleição dos titulares dos órgãos das autarquias locais" (in Portuguese). Diário da República. 14 August 2001. Retrieved 17 July 2025.
  10. ^ "Acórdão (extrato) n.º 737/2025, de 8 de agosto". Diário da República (in European Portuguese). 8 August 2025. Retrieved 26 August 2025.
  11. ^ "Autarquicas Locais 2025" (in Portuguese). Ministry of Home Affairs. 17 October 2025.
  12. ^ a b "Comissão Nacional de Eleições Mapa Oficial n.º 2-B/2025" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Diário da República. 17 December 2025. Retrieved 18 December 2025.
  13. ^ "Autarquicas Locais 2025" (in Portuguese). Ministry of Home Affairs. 18 October 2025.
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