The District of Santarém ( ) is a district of Portugal, located in Portugal's West and Tagus Valley region. The district capital is the city of Santarém.
The district is the 3rd largest in Portugal, with an area of , and a population of 475,344 inhabitants, giving it a population density of 70 people per sq. kilometer (180 people per sq. mile).
Municipalities The district includes the following 21 municipalities.
Abrantes Alcanena Almeirim Alpiarça Benavente Cartaxo Chamusca Constância Coruche Entroncamento Ferreira do Zêzere Golegã Mação Ourém Rio Maior Salvaterra de Magos Santarém Sardoal Tomar Torres Novas Vila Nova da Barquinha
Summary of votes and seats won 1976–2022
|- class="unsortable" !rowspan=2|Parties!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S |- class="unsortable" align="center" !colspan=2 | 1976 !colspan=2 | 1979 !colspan=2 | 1980 !colspan=2 | 1983 !colspan=2 | 1985 !colspan=2 | 1987 !colspan=2 | 1991 !colspan=2 | 1995 !colspan=2 | 1999 !colspan=2 | 2002 !colspan=2 | 2005 !colspan=2 | 2009 !colspan=2 | 2011 !colspan=2 | 2015 !colspan=2 | 2019 !colspan=2 | 2022 |- | align="left"| PS || style="background:#FF66FF;"|38.4 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|6 || 27.3 || 3 ||30.4 || 4 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|38.4 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|5 || 18.6 || 2 || 21.7 || 3 || 29.4 || 3 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|45.8 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|5 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|45.5 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|5 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|38.4 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|4 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|46.1 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|6 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|33.7 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|4 || 25.9 || 3 || 32.9 || 3 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|37.1 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|4 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|41.2 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|5 |- | align="left"| PSD || 19.5 || 3 || colspan=4 rowspan=2 align=center| In AD || 24.7 || 3 || style="background:#FF9900;"|27.8 || style="background:#FF9900;"|4 || style="background:#FF9900;"|47.9 || style="background:#FF9900;"|7 || style="background:#FF9900;"|49.1 || style="background:#FF9900;"|6 || 31.0 || 3 || 30.2|| 3 || 38.1 || 4 || 26.4 || 3 || 27.0 || 3 || style="background:#FF9900;"|37.6 || style="background:#FF9900;"|5 || colspan=2 rowspan=2 align=center| In PàF || 25.2 || 3 || 26.9 || 3 |- | align="left"| CDS-PP || 13.9 || 2 || 10.0 || 1 || 7.7 || 1 || 3.6 || || 3.3 || || 8.7 || 1 || 8.1 || 1 || 8.4 || 1 || 6.9 || || 11.2 || 1 || 12.3 || 1 || 4.7 || || 1.9 || |- | align="left"| PCP/APU/CDU || 16.1 || 2 || 21.7|| 3 || 19.0 || 2 || 20.0 || 3 || 16.4 || 2 || 12.6 || 1 || 9.8 || 1 || 9.5 || 1 || 10.1 || 1 || 8.6 || 1 || 8.6 || 1 || 9.2 || 1 || 9.0 || 1 || 9.6 || 1 || 7.6 || 1 || 5.4 || |- | align="left"| AD || colspan=2| || style="background:#00FFFF;"|41.0 || style="background:#00FFFF;"|6 || style="background:#00FFFF;"|42.1 || style="background:#00FFFF;"|6 || colspan=26| |- | align="left"| PRD || colspan=8| || 23.8 || 3 || 7.3 || 1 || 1.0 || || colspan=18| |- | align="left"| BE || colspan=16| || 2.0 || || 2.8 || || 6.5 || || 11.8 || 1 || 5.8 || || 10.8 || 1 || 10.2 || 1 || 4.6 || |- | align="left"| PàF || colspan=26| || style="background:#00AAAA;"|35.8 || style="background:#00AAAA;"|4 || colspan=4| |- | align="left"| CHEGA || colspan=28| || 2.0 || || 10.9 || 1 |- ! align="left"| Total seats || colspan=2|13 || colspan=10|12 || colspan=14|10 || colspan=6|9 |- ! colspan=33| Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições
Archeology
The village of Almonda, within the civil parish of Zibreira, is noted for the Aroeira cave, where the 400,000 year old Aroeira 3 skull of a Homo Heidelbergensis was discovered in 2014. It is the oldest trace of human habitation in Portugal.Phys Org, March 13, 2017, 400,000-year-old fossil human cranium is oldest ever found in PortugalJoan Daura et al.: New Middle Pleistocene hominin cranium from Gruta da Aroeira (Portugal). In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) Online pre-release of 13 March 2017.The primitive man from Portugal, Article from 16 March 2017 des Hamburger Abendblatt, accessed on March 22, 2017Crânio de 400 mil anos é o fóssil humano mais antigo descoberto em Portugal 400,000 year old skull found the oldest human fossil in Portugal, Article from 13. March 2017 he Portuguese newspaper Público, accessed on March 22, 2017
See also Arripiado, a village in the district of Santarém 1909 Benavente earthquake, a deadly seismic event centered in the district
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