2025 Amadora local election
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12 October 2025
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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.
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 | |||