2001 Porto local election
Portuguese municipal election
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The 2001 Porto local election was held on 16 December 2001 to elect the members of the Porto City Council.
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16 December 2001
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All 13 Councillors in the Porto City Council 7 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Turnout | 48.3%  0.2 pp | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rui Rio, candidate of the coalition between the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and the CDS – People's Party (CDS–PP), unexpectedly defeated former Mayor Fernando Gomes, from the Socialist Party (PS).[1][2] Following the election, Rio made a deal with Communist councillor Rui Sá in order to have a majority in the council.[3]
Background
In the 1997 election, incumbent Socialist Mayor Fernando Gomes was re-elected for a third term, defeating the CDS/PSD candidate Carlos Azeredo with a 55.8% to 26.3% margin.[4]
In 1999, Fernando Gomes resigned as Mayor to join António Guterres' second government as Minister Adjunct and of Internal Administration. He was replaced by Nuno Cardoso, who decided not to run for re-election to allow Gomes to return to the mayorship,[5] however, this decision—to resign from mayor, become a minister in Lisbon, and then run again for mayor—was considered to have been poorly received by voters in Porto.[6]
Electoral system
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.[7]
Parties and candidates
| Party/Coalition | Political position |
Candidate[8] | 1997 result | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes (%) | Seats | |||||
| PS | Socialist Party Partido Socialista |
Centre-left | Fernando Gomes | 55.8% | 8 / 13 | |
| PPUVM | For Porto, Once Again Pelo Porto, Uma Vez Mais PSD, CDS–PP |
Centre-right | Rui Rio | 26.3% | 4 / 13 | |
| CDU | Unitary Democratic Coalition Coligação Democrática Unitária PCP, PEV |
Left-wing to far-left |
Rui Sá | 11.3% | 1 / 13 | |
| PCTP | Portuguese Workers' Communist Party Partido Comunista dos Trabalhadores Portugueses |
Far-left | Valentim Martins | 0.4% | 0 / 13 | |
| BE | Left Bloc Bloco de Esquerda |
Left-wing to far-left |
João Teixeira Lopes | N/a | 0 / 13 | |
| PH | Humanist Party Partido Humanista |
Centre-left | Alice Mouta Ribeiro | N/a | 0 / 13 | |
Opinion polling
Exit poll
| Polling firm/Link | Date Released | Sample size | PS | PSD CDS |
CDU | BE | O | Lead | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 local election | 16 Dec 2001 | N/a | 38.5 6 |
42.7 6 |
10.5 1 |
2.6 0 |
5.7 0 |
4.2 | |
| UCP | 16 Dec 2001 | ? | 39–44 | 39–44 | 8–10 | 2–3 | – | Tie | |
| Marktest | 13 Dec 2001 | ? | 48 7 |
38 5 |
9 1 |
3 0 |
2 0 |
10 | |
| UCP | 11 Dec 2001 | 1,041 | 45.5 7 |
36.8 5 |
8.7 1 |
2.8 0 |
6.2 0 |
8.7 | |
| UCP | 14 Nov 2001 | ? | 54.7 | 32.1 | 5.0 | 3.5 | 4.7 | 22.6 | |
| Euroexpansão | Oct 2001 | ? | 66 | 29 | N/a | N/a | 5 | 37 | |
| 1997 local election | 14 Dec 1997 | N/a | 55.8 8 |
26.3 4 |
11.3 1 |
N/a | 6.6 0 |
29.5 | |
Results
Municipal Council
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| Parties | Votes | % | ±pp swing | Councillors | ||||||
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| Total | ± | |||||||||
| Social Democratic / People's | 50,724 | 42.75 | 16.5 | 6 | 2 | |||||
| Socialist | 45,634 | 38.46 |  17.3 | 6 | 2 | |||||
| Unitary Democratic Coalition | 12,425 | 10.47 | 0.8 | 1 |  0 | |||||
| Left Bloc | 3,037 | 2.56 | N/a | 0 | N/a | |||||
| Portuguese Workers' Communist | 1,013 | 0.85 | 0.4 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Humanist | 530 | 0.45 | N/a | 0 | N/a | |||||
| Total valid | 113,363 | 95.54 | 0.0 |
13 | 0 | |||||
| Blank ballots | 3,561 | 3.00 | 0.3 | |||||||
| Invalid ballots | 1,725 | 1.45 | 0.3 | |||||||
| Total | 118,649 | 100.00 | ||||||||
| Registered voters/turnout | 245,805 | 48.27 | 0.2 | |||||||
| Source: Porto 2001 election results | ||||||||||
Municipal Assembly
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| Parties | Votes | % | ±pp swing | Seats | ||||||
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| Total | ± | |||||||||
| Social Democratic / People's | 50,592 | 42.64 | 11.4 | 18 | 5 | |||||
| Socialist | 45,014 | 37.94 | 12.7 | 15 | 6 | |||||
| Unitary Democratic Coalition | 14,317 | 11.42 | 0.9 | 4 | 1 | |||||
| Left Bloc | 4,189 | 3.53 | N/a | 1 | N/a | |||||
| Total valid | 114,112 | 95.53 | 0.5 |
39 | 0 | |||||
| Blank ballots | 3,815 | 3.22 | 0.3 | |||||||
| Invalid ballots | 1,496 | 1.26 | 0.2 | |||||||
| Total | 118,654 | 100.00 | ||||||||
| Registered voters/turnout | 245,805 | 48.27 | 0.2 | |||||||
| Source: Porto 2001 election results | ||||||||||
Parish Assemblies
| Parish | % | S | % | S | % | S | % | S | % | S | Total S | |||||||
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| PPUVM | PS | CDU | BE | IND | ||||||||||||||
| Aldoar | 34.7 | 5 | 49.6 | 7 | 8.2 | 1 | 3.4 | - | 13 | |||||||||
| Bonfim | 45.9 | 10 | 33.6 | 7 | 12.4 | 2 | 3.0 | - | 19 | |||||||||
| Campanhã | 30.8 | 6 | 50.2 | 11 | 12.2 | 2 | 2.8 | - | 19 | |||||||||
| Cedofeita | 49.9 | 11 | 31.5 | 6 | 10.4 | 2 | 3.9 | - | 19 | |||||||||
| Foz do Douro | 52.7 | 8 | 28.1 | 4 | 12.0 | 1 | 3.2 | - | 13 | |||||||||
| Lordelo do Ouro | 40.9 | 6 | 40.3 | 6 | 11.1 | 1 | 3.3 | - | 13 | |||||||||
| Massarelos | 40.8 | 6 | 41.1 | 6 | 10.7 | 1 | 3.4 | - | 13 | |||||||||
| Miragaia | 20.0 | 2 | 46.9 | 5 | 27.6 | 2 | 2.3 | - | 9 | |||||||||
| Nevogilde | 75.0 | 8 | 15.0 | 1 | 3.5 | - | 2.2 | - | 9 | |||||||||
| Paranhos | 42.0 | 10 | 39.0 | 9 | 10.7 | 2 | 3.3 | - | 21 | |||||||||
| Ramalde | 42.8 | 9 | 40.1 | 8 | 9.3 | 2 | 3.0 | - | 19 | |||||||||
| Santo Ildefonso | 41.6 | 6 | 41.2 | 6 | 9.9 | 1 | 3.1 | - | 13 | |||||||||
| São Nicolau | 31.9 | 3 | 36.2 | 4 | 12.8 | 1 | 1.8 | - | 14.1 | 1 | 9 | |||||||
| Sé | 37.0 | 5 | 42.7 | 6 | 13.6 | 2 | 1.6 | - | 13 | |||||||||
| Vitória | 35.3 | 3 | 44.5 | 5 | 12.8 | 1 | 2.2 | - | 9 | |||||||||
| Total | 42.0 | 98 | 39.2 | 91 | 11.0 | 21 | 3.1 | 0 | 0.2 | 1 | 211 | |||||||
| Source: Election Results | ||||||||||||||||||