Legislatives/Lisbon: IL and Chega with a big rise in PS victory and CDS, CDU and BE defeat
The PS is the list of the most voted party in the circle, 74% (404,677 votes, 20 elected) in 2019 to 40.83% (482,606 votes, 21 elected), led by António Costa (prime minister) and secretary general of the PS ), Edite Estrela and Mariana Vieira da Silva (Minister of State and Presidency). Also elected, among others, were Graça Fonseca (Minister of Culture), Duarte Cordeiro (Deputy Secretary of State and Parliamentary Affairs) and Fernando Medina, who last September failed to be re-elected to the Lisbon Chamber.
On the other hand, the PSD, in its list of elected, more than 522 votes, Isabel, for Ricardo, Silvado Batista, in turn, plus the election, by 13 deputies, which were worth 13 deputies, than the 12, in 2019, head . when it collected 22.60% of the votes (248,937 votes). Joaquim Sarmento and Duarte Pacheco are other representatives of the largest circle in the country (48 representatives).
In a constituency with 1,919,958 registered occupiers, abstention was 38.44% (it was 42.67% in 2019), IL and Chega won four principals each, IL and Chega had four principals each, belonging to the positions which in the previous ones belonged to Bloco de Esquerda and CDU (PCP/PEV).
The 7.90% (93,341 votes) allocated to the Liberal Initiative list, led by the party’s president, João Cotrim Figueiredo, also elected Carla Charters de Azevedo, Rodrigo Saraiva and Bernardo Blanco, while the 7.77% (91,889 votes) of the Enough elected the leader, André Ventura, Rui Sousa, Rita Matias and Pedro Fernandes.
Conversely, the Left Bloc lost three deputies in Lisbon, going from 9.71% in 2019 (106,944 votes) to 55,786 votes, and elected Mariana Mortágua and Pedro Filipe Soares in the district.
The CDU and PAN each took half of the deputies (two and one, respectively), with the Unitary Democratic Coalition keeping only Jerónimo de Sousa and Alma Rivera, in view of the reduction of votes from 7.79% to 5.08%, the party of Inês de Sousa Real (1.99%, against 4.41% in 2019) elected only the spokesperson, one of the last representatives assigned overnight.
The big loser of the night — not only in the capital, but also in the rest of the country — was the CDS-PP, which delayed 1.65% of the votes in electing a single deputy. In 2019, parties by Francisco Rodrigues dos Santos, in the Lisbon two-vote constituency19, with 4.40%.
Livre repeated the election of a deputy. The 2.07% in 2019 will allow the election of Joacine Katar Moreira – and political trust was withdrawn by the party a few months later –, and the increase now to 2.44%, which elected Rui Tavares.
The district is divided into 16, some trendy, especially in the West zone, and others more metropolitan, in the capital’s belt, where more people live.
According to preliminary data from the 2021 Census, 2,275,846 people resided in the Lisbon district, slightly more than the 2.25 million residents at the end of 2018, before the previous legislation.
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