2017 Porto local elections

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All 13 Councillors in the Porto City Council 7 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Turnout	53.7% 1.1 pp
First party Second party   Leader Rui Moreira Manuel Pizarro Party Independent PS Alliance Porto, Our Party Last election 6 seats, 39.3% 3 seats, 22.7% Seats won 7 4 Seat change 1 1 Popular vote 51,159 32,856 Percentage 44.5% 28.6% Swing 5.2 pp 5.9 pp   Third party Fourth party   Leader Álvaro Almeida Ilda Figueiredo Party PSD PCP Alliance Authentic Porto[a] CDU Last election 3 seats, 21.1% 1 seat, 7.4% Seats won 1 1 Seat change 2 Popular vote 11,952 6,781 Percentage 10.4% 5.9% Swing 10.7 pp 1.5 pp
Mayor before election Rui Moreira Independent Elected mayor Rui Moreira Independent

The 2017 Porto local election was held on 1 October 2017 to elect the members of the Porto City Council.

Rui Moreira, mayor since 2013, won a second term as Mayor of Porto, winning a majority in the city council. He beat the Socialist candidate, once again Manuel Pizarro, who managed to increase his voting share and to gain 1 councillor.^[1]

The Social Democratic Party, in coalition with the People's Monarchist Party, had a terrible result, losing more than half of the votes from 2013 and electing one single councillor.^[2] The Communist Party, with Ilda Figueiredo as its candidate, managed to keep its seat in the City Council, despite a slight loss in the vote share. Meanwhile, the Left Bloc, with João Teixeira Lopes as its candidate after João Semedo withrew his candidacy due to health reasons, failed once again to gain any seat in the city council.

In the 2013 election, Rui Moreira, an independent politician, managed to win the election, despite not winning an absolute majority. The Socialist Party, led by Manuel Pizarro, achieved second place with 3 seats and about 22% of the votes, being followed by the Social Democratic Party, led by Luís Filipe Menezes, who also elected 3 seats and got 21% of the votes. The Unitary Democratic Coalition got 1 seat and 7.4% of the votes.^[3]

Rui Moreira governed with support from the Socialist Party, who intended to support Rui Moreira's independent movement in 2017. Despite that, Rui Moreira declined the support of the Socialist Party^[4] and, in response, the Socialists ended the government agreement with the independent movement.^[5]

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.^[6]

  Exit poll

Summary of the 1 October 2017 Municipal Council elections results
in Porto

1 4 7 1
Parties		Votes	%	±pp swing	Councillors
					Total	±
	Porto, Our Party 2017	51,159	44.46	5.2	7	1
	Socialist	32,856	28.55	5.9	4	1
	Social Democratic / People's Monarchist	11,952	10.39	10.7	1	2
	Unitary Democratic Coalition	6,781	5.89	1.5	1	0
	Left Bloc	6,146	5.34	1.7	0	0
	People–Animals–Nature	2,215	1.92	—	0	—
	PPV/CDC	186	0.16	—	0	—
	National Renovator	173	0.15	—	0	—
	Labour	166	0.14	0.1	0	0
Total valid		111,634	97.01	1.4	13	0
Blank ballots		1,826	1.59	0.9
Invalid ballots		1,613	1.40	0.5
Total		115,073	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		214,324	53.69	1.1
Source: Porto 2017 election results

Summary of the 1 October 2017 Porto Municipal Assembly elections
results

3 3 11 1 16 5
Parties		Votes	%	±pp swing	Seats
					Total	±
	Porto, Our Party 2017	44,614	38.78	4.1	16	1
	Socialist	31,238	27.16	3.5	11	1
	Social Democratic / People's Monarchist	15.156	13.18	7.1	8	3
	Unitary Democratic Coalition	8,748	7.60	2.3	3	1
	Left Bloc	8,281	7.20	2.2	3	1
	People–Animals–Nature	3,195	2.78	—	1	—
Total valid		111,232	96.70	1.8	39	0
Blank ballots		1,991	1.73	1.2
Invalid ballots		1,809	1.57	0.5
Total		115,032	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		214,324	53.67	1.1
Source: Porto 2017 election results

• 2017 local election results