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2024 European Parliament election in Portugal

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An election will be held in Portugal on Sunday, 9 June 2024,^[1] to elect the Portuguese delegation to the European Parliament from 2024 to 2029. It will be part of the wider 2024 European Parliament election. This will be the ninth European Parliament election held in Portugal.

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2024 European Parliament election in Portugal

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Leader	Marta Temido	Sebastião Bugalho	Catarina Martins
Party	PS	AD	BE
Alliance	S&D	EPP	GUE/NGL
Last election	9 seats, 33.4%	7 seats, 28.1%^{[lower-alpha 1]}	2 seats, 9.8%
Current seats	9	7	2

		PAN
Leader	João Oliveira	Pedro Fidalgo Marques
Party	CDU	PAN
Alliance	GUE/NGL	Greens/EFA
Last election	2 seats, 6.9%	1 seat, 5.1%
Current seats	2	0^{[lower-alpha 2]}

This election takes place just three months after the 10 March 2024 legislative election, which resulted in a very narrow win for the Democratic Alliance, thus is being seen as a "second round" of the March elections.^[2]

Background

Electoral system

The voting method to be used, for the election of European members of parliament, is by proportional representation using the D'Hondt method. For the 2024 European Parliament elections, Portugal has 21 seats to fill. Members of Parliament are elected in a single constituency, corresponding to the entire national territory.

Date

The proposed election day, 9 June, conflicted with the Portugal Day holiday on 10 June, plus several other local holidays. The government feared that an election close to so many holidays would suppress turnout^[3] and attempted to find a compromise with EU countries to find an alternative date, but, no unanimity was reached and the election was then expected to be held on 9 June.^[4]

On 4 April 2024, President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa confirmed that the election will be held on 9 June 2024.^[5]

Early voting

Voters are also able to vote early, which will happen on 2 June, one week before election day. Voters have to register between 26 and 30 May 2024 in order to be eligible to cast an early ballot.^[6] By the 30 May deadline, 252,208 voters had requested to vote early, a number thirteen times higher than in 2019, and also higher than in the 2024 March legislative election.^[7] On 2 June, 225,039 voters (89.2 percent of voters that requested) cast an early ballot.^[8]

Parties and candidates

Portuguese delegation in the European Parliament before the elections

More information European Parliament group, Mandates ...

European Parliament group		Mandates		Mandates
	S&D Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats	9 / 21	PS Socialist Party	9 / 21
	EPP European People's Party Group	7 / 21	PPD/PSD Social Democratic Party	6 / 21
	EPP European People's Party Group	7 / 21	CDS–PP CDS – People's Party	1 / 21
	The Left The Left in the European Parliament – GUE/NGL	4 / 21	BE Left Bloc	2 / 21
	The Left The Left in the European Parliament – GUE/NGL	4 / 21	CDU Unitary Democratic Coalition	2 / 21
	Greens/EFA Greens–European Free Alliance	1 / 21	PAN People Animals Nature	0 / 21
	Greens/EFA Greens–European Free Alliance	1 / 21	Francisco Guerreiro^{[lower-alpha 2]} Independent	1 / 21
Source: European Parliament

Parties running in the election

This is a list of the parties that will be on the ballot and their main candidates.^[9]

More information Party, European Party ...


		European Party	Group	2019 result	Top candidate	Ref.
PS	Socialist Party	PES	S&D	33.4	Marta Temido	^[10]
AD	Democratic Alliance Social Democratic Party CDS – People's Party People's Monarchist Party	EPP / ECPM	EPP	28.1^{[lower-alpha 1]}	Sebastião Bugalho	^[11]
BE	Left Bloc	PEL	The Left	9.8	Catarina Martins	^[12]
CDU	Unitary Democratic Coalition Portuguese Communist Party Ecologist Party "The Greens"	NI / EGP	The Left / Greens/EFA	6.9	João Oliveira	^[13]
PAN	People-Animals-Nature	EGP	Greens/EFA	5.1	Pedro Fidalgo Marques	^[14]
L	LIVRE	EGP	Greens/EFA	1.8	Francisco Paupério	^[15]
CH	CHEGA!	ID	ID	1.5	António Tânger Corrêa	^[16]
NC	We, the Citizens!	ALDE Party	NI	1.1	Pedro Ladeira	^[17]
IL	Liberal Initiative	ALDE Party	Renew	0.9	João Cotrim de Figueiredo	^[18]
E	Rise Up	AENM	NI	0.5	Rui Fonseca e Castro [pt]	^[19]
ADN	National Democratic Alternative	NI	NI	0.5^{[lower-alpha 3]}	Joana Amaral Dias	^[20]
PTP	Portuguese Labour Party	NI	NI	0.3	José Manuel Coelho	^[21]
MAS	Socialist Alternative Movement	NI	NI	0.2	Gil Garcia [pt]	^[22]
RIR	React, Include, Recycle	−	−	−	Márcia Henriques	^[23]
MPT	Earth Party	−	EPP	−	Manuel Carreira	^[24]
VP	Volt Portugal	Volt	−	−	Duarte Costa	^[25]
ND	New Right	−	−	−	Ossanda Liber	^[26]

Campaign

Issues

The campaign is being dominated by issues like Immigration and Defense,^[27] with national politics also an issue due to the narrow victory of the Democratic Alliance in the 10 March legislative elections and the unstable situation of Luís Montenegro's minority government, with the prospect of a possible snap election in the short term.^[2]

Party slogans

More information Party or alliance, Original slogan ...

	Original slogan	English translation	Refs
PS	« O futuro de Portugal na Europa »	"Portugal's future in Europe"	^[28]
AD	« Voz na Europa »	"Voice in Europe"	^[29]
BE	« Europa por ti, salvar o futuro »	"Europe for you, save the future."	^[30]
CDU	« Sempre contigo para o que der e vier »	"Always with you no matter what happens"	^[31]
PAN	« Pelo planeta, por ti, pelos animais »	"For the planet, for you, for the animals"	^[32]
L	« Por uma Europa Unida e LIVRE »	"For a United and FREE Europe"	^[33]
CH	« Uma Europa de nações livres »	"A Europe of free nations"	^[34]
IL	« Com Cotrim Sim »	"With Cotrim Yes"	^[32]

Candidates' debates

With parties represented in the national Parliament

More information Date, Organisers ...

2024 Portuguese European Parliament election debates
Date	Organisers	Moderator(s)	P Present^{[lower-alpha 4]} S Surrogate^{[lower-alpha 5]} NI Not invited I Invited A Absent invitee
			PS	AD	BE	CDU	PAN	L	CH	IL	Ref.
											Ref.
13 May	SIC	Clara de Sousa [pt]	P Temido	P Bugalho	NI	NI	NI	P Paupério	NI	P Cotrim	^[35]
15 May	RTP1	Carlos Daniel [pt]	NI	NI	P Martins	NI	P Marques	P Paupério	P Corrêa	NI	^[36]
17 May	TVI	Sara Pinto	NI	NI	P Martins	P Oliveira	NI	P Paupério	NI	P Cotrim	^[37]
20 May	SIC	Clara de Sousa [pt]	NI	NI	NI	P Oliveira	P Marques	NI	P Corrêa	P Cotrim	^[38]
21 May	RTP1	Carlos Daniel [pt]	P Temido	P Bugalho	NI	P Oliveira	NI	NI	P Corrêa	NI	^[39]
22 May	Observador	Ricardo Conceição	NI	NI	NI	NI	NI	P Paupério	P Corrêa	NI	^[40]
22 May	Observador	Ricardo Conceição	NI	NI	P Martins	NI	P Marques	NI	NI	NI	^[40]
23 May	Observador	Sara Antunes de Oliveira	NI	NI	NI	NI	P Marques	NI	P Corrêa	NI	^[40]
23 May	Observador	Ricardo Conceição	NI	NI	P Martins	P Oliveira	NI	NI	NI	NI	^[40]
23 May	Observador	Ricardo Conceição	NI	P Bugalho	NI	NI	NI	NI	NI	P Cotrim	^[40]
24 May	Observador	Ricardo Conceição	NI	NI	NI	P Oliveira	NI	NI	NI	P Cotrim	^[40]
24 May	TVI	Sara Pinto	P Temido	P Bugalho	P Martins	NI	P Marques	NI	NI	NI	^[41]
28 May	RTP1	Carlos Daniel [pt]	P Temido	P Bugalho	P Martins	P Oliveira	P Marques	P Paupério	P Corrêa	P Cotrim	^[42]
29 May	Observador	Ricardo Conceição	NI	P Bugalho	NI	NI	NI	P Paupério	NI	NI	^[40]
3 Jun	Antena 1 TSF Renascença Observador	Natália Carvalho Ricardo Alexandre Susana Madureira Martins Rui Pedro Antunes	P Temido	P Bugalho	P Martins	P Oliveira	P Marques	P Paupério	P Corrêa	P Cotrim	^[43]

With parties not represented in the national Parliament

More information Date, Organisers ...

2024 Portuguese European Parliament election debates
Date	Organisers	Moderator(s)	P Present^{[lower-alpha 6]} S Surrogate^{[lower-alpha 7]} NI Not invited I Invited A Absent invitee
			NC	E	ADN	PTP	MAS	RIR	MPT	VP	ND	Ref.
												Ref.
30 May	RTP1	Carlos Daniel [pt]	P Ladeira	P Castro	P Dias	P Coelho^{[lower-alpha 8]}	P Garcia	P Henriques	P Carreira	P Costa	P Liber	^[44]

Opinion polling

Polls that show their results without distributing those respondents who are undecided or said they would abstain from voting, are re-calculated by removing these numbers from the totals through a simple rule of three, in order to obtain results comparable to other polls and the official election results.

More information Polling firm/Link, Fieldwork date ...

Polling firm/Link	Fieldwork date	Sample size	Turnout											O	Lead


				S&D	EPP	EPP	NI	ID	Left	Left	G/EFA	G/EFA	Renew

Intercampus^{[lower-alpha 9]}	29 May–4 Jun 2024	604	?	27.5 7	28.3 7			13.7 3	6.6 1	2.9 0	3.5 0	5.1 1	10.4 2	2.0 0	0.8
CESOP–UCP	27 May–3 Jun 2024	1,552	?	33 7/9	31 6/8			12 2/4	4 0/1	4 0/1	1 0	4 0/1	8 1/2	3 0	2
Aximage	17–22 May 2024	801	55.3	30.6 7/8	26.6 6			15.5 4	6.3 1	3.5 0	1.6 0	5.2 1	7.5 1/2	3.2 0	4.0
Intercampus^{[lower-alpha 10]}	12–20 May 2024	609	?	23.1 5	22.0 5			18.1 4	9.2 2	3.7 0	4.0 1	6.9 1	12.0 3	1.0 0	1.1
CESOP–UCP	13–18 May 2024	965	?	30 6/8	31 6/8			15 3/4	5 1	5 1	1 0	5 1	6 1/2	2 0	1
Duplimétrica	6–13 May 2024	800	?	34 9	32 8			10 2	3 0	3 0	1 0	3 0	9 2	5 0	2
ICS/ISCTE	27 Apr–8 May 2024	1,001	?	32 8	26 6			18 4	5 1	4 1	2 0	2 0	4 1	7 0	6
Intercampus^{[lower-alpha 11]}	18–23 Apr 2024	605	?	33.4 8	28.2 7			13.0 3	7.4 1	3.3 0	1.3 0	5.8 1	4.4 1	3.3 0	5.2
Aximage	12–16 Apr 2024	805	58.0	31.3 7/8	24.8 6			18.4 4	5.9 1	4.1 1	1.8 0	3.6 0/1	5.8 1	4.3 0	6.5
2024 legislative elections	10 Mar 2024	—	59.8	28.0 (7)	28.8 (7)			18.1 (5)	4.4 (1)	3.2 (0)	1.9 (0)	3.2 (0)	4.9 (1)	7.5 (0)	0.8
Ipsos	23 Feb–5 Mar 2024	2,000	?	29.6 8	31.0 8	3.4 0	–	14.2 3	4.4 1	2.3 0	2.1 0	3.6 0	4.5 1	4.9 0	1.4
2022 legislative elections	30 Jan 2022	—	51.5	41.4 (10)	29.1 (7)	1.6 (0)	0.0 (0)	7.2 (1)	4.4 (1)	4.3 (1)	1.6 (0)	1.3 (0)	4.9 (1)	4.7 (0)	12.3
2019 legislative elections	6 Oct 2019	—	48.6	36.3 (10)	27.8 (7)	4.2 (1)	0.2 (0)	1.3 (0)	9.5 (2)	6.3 (1)	3.3 (0)	1.1 (0)	1.3 (0)	8.8 (0)	8.5

2019 EP election	26 May 2019	—	30.7	33.4 9	21.9 6	6.2 1	1.5 0		9.8 2	6.9 2	5.1 1	1.8 0	0.9 0	12.5 0	11.5

Notes

Social Democratic Party (PPD/PSD) got 21.9% of the vote and elected 6 MEPs while the CDS – People's Party (CDS–PP) got 6.2% and elected 1 in the 2019 elections. The two parties are running together in 2024.
Francisco Guerreiro was elected MEP in 2019 in the PAN list, but he left PAN on June 2020 and since then became an Independent seated in the European Green Party.
As Democratic Republican Party in 2019
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Results presented here exclude undecideds (12.5%). With their inclusion results are: AD: 24.8%; AD: 24.1%; CHEGA: 12.0%; IL: 9.1%; BE: 5.8%; Livre: 4.5%; PAN: 3.1%; CDU: 2.5%; Others/Invalid: 1.8%.
Results presented here exclude undecideds (3.7%). With their inclusion results are: PS: 22.2%; AD: 21.2%; CHEGA: 17.4%; IL: 11.6%; BE: 8.9%; Livre: 6.6%; PAN: 3.9%; CDU: 3.6%; Others/Invalid: 0.9%.
Results presented here exclude undecideds (17.5%). With their inclusion results are: PS: 27.5%; AD: 23.2%; CHEGA: 10.7%; BE: 6.1%; Livre: 4.8%; IL: 3.6%; CDU: 2.7%; PAN: 1.1%; Others/Invalid: 2.7%.

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External links

Official results site, Portuguese Ministry of Internal Administration
Portuguese Electoral Commission
ERC – Official publication of polls

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