The 2009 Porto local election was held on 11 October 2009 to elect the members of the Porto City Council.

Incumbent Mayor Rui Rio, from the PSD/CDS coalition, won a third and final term as Mayor of Porto, achieving 47.5% of the votes and 7 seats and defeating Socialist candidate Elisa Ferreira, who won 34.7% of the votes and 5 seats.

Background In the 2005 election, Rui Rio, candidate for the PSD/CDS coalition, won a second term as mayor of Porto, winning 46.2% of the votes and 7 seats, an absolute majority. The Socialist Party, led by Francisco Assis, achieved second place with 5 seats and about 36.4% of the votes. The Unitary Democratic Coalition got 1 seat and 9.0% of the votes.

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.

Parties and candidates

Party/Coalition Politicalposition Candidate 2005 result Votes (%) Seats PP Porto First Centre-right Rui Rio 46.2% PS Socialist Party Centre-left Elisa Ferreira 36.2% CDU Unitary Democratic Coalition Left-wingto far-left Rui Sá9.0% BE Left Bloc Left-wingto far-left 4.2% PCTP Portuguese Workers' Communist Party Far-left João Valente Pinto 0.6%

Opinion polling

Polling firm/Link Fieldwork date Sample size PSDCDS PS CDU BE Lead 2009 local election 11 Oct 2009 47.5 34.7 9.8 5.0 3.012.8 UCP–CESOP 11 Oct 2009 ?45–49 33–37 8.5–10.5 4–6 –12 Eurosondagem 11 Oct 2009 ?43.3–47.1 35.5–39.9 7.9–10.1 3.9–5.7 –7.2–7.8 Intercampus 11 Oct 2009 ?44.9–50.5 31.3–36.8 7.8–11.4 3.3–6.9 –13.6–13.7 Marktest 2–7 Oct 2009 40051.0 31.0 7.8 5.7 4.720.0 UCP–CESOP 2–5 Oct 2009 2,57147 33 9 7 414 Aximage 2–4 Oct 2009 50046.4 34.3 9.7 5.8 3.812.1 Eurosondagem 28–30 Sep 2009 73648.0 33.3 9.4 5.8 3.514.7 Intercampus 28–30 Sep 2009 80044.4 35.9 8.2 7.9 3.68.5 Marktest 3–6 Sep 2009 39944.7 31.1 9.6 7.8 6.813.6 IPOM 16–19 Jun 2009 79755.2 23.5 9.2 8.1 4.131.7 UCP–CESOP 8–9 Jun 2009 1,00254 23 4 7 1231 2005 local election 9 Oct 2005 46.2 36.1 9.0 4.2 4.510.1

Results Municipal Council

| colspan="11" style="text-align:center;" | |- ! rowspan="2" colspan=2 style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=left|Parties ! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|Votes ! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|% ! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|±pp swing ! colspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|Councillors |- style="background-color:#E9E9E9" ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|Total ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|± |- |style="width: 9px" bgcolor=#00AAAA align="center" | |align=left|Social Democratic / People's |62,507||47.48||1.3||7||0

|45,682||34.70||1.4||5||0

|12,904||9.80||0.8||1||0

|6,552||4.98||0.8||0||0

|915||0.70||0.1||0||0

|colspan=2 width="330" align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total valid |width="50" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|128,560 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|97.65 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|0.9 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|13 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|0 |- |colspan=2|Blank ballots |1,816||1.38||0.8||colspan=3 rowspan=4| |- |colspan=2|Invalid ballots |1,273||0.97||0.1 |- |colspan=2 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total |width="50" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|131,649 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| |- |colspan=2|Registered voters/turnout ||231,978||56.75||1.8 |- | colspan=11 align=left | Source: Porto 2009 election results

Municipal Assembly

| colspan="11" style="text-align:center;" | |- ! rowspan="2" colspan=2 style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=left|Parties ! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|Votes ! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|% ! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|±pp swing ! colspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|Seats |- style="background-color:#E9E9E9" ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|Total ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|± |- |style="width: 9px" bgcolor=#00AAAA align="center" | |align=left|Social Democratic / People's |58,168||44.19||0.5||18||0

|44,422||33.75||1.1||14||1

|14,506||11.02||0.6||4||0

|9,893||7.52||0.7||3||1

|1,261||0.96||||0|| |- |colspan=2 width="330" align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total valid |width="50" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|128,560 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|97.65 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|1.3 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|39 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|0 |- |colspan=2|Blank ballots |2,204||1.67||0.8||colspan=3 rowspan=4| |- |colspan=2|Invalid ballots |1,184||0.90||0.3 |- |colspan=2 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total |width="50" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|131,638 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| |- |colspan=2|Registered voters/turnout ||231,978||56.75||1.8 |- | colspan=11 align=left | Source: Porto 2009 election results

Parish Assemblies

|- class="unsortable" !rowspan=2|Parish!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S !rowspan=2|TotalS |- class="unsortable" style="text-align:center;" !colspan=2 | PP !colspan=2 | PS !colspan=2 | CDU !colspan=2 | BE |- | style="text-align:left;" | Aldoar | 38.0 | 5 | style="background:#FF66FF; color:white;"| 44.5 | 6 | 7.4 | 1 | 6.6 | 1 | 13 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Bonfim | style="background:#00AAAA; color:white;"| 47.7 | 10 | 31.1 | 6 | 10.2 | 2 | 7.5 | 1 | 19 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Campanhã | 29.1 | 6 | style="background:#FF66FF; color:white;"| 48.1 | 10 | 12.5 | 2 | 7.1 | 1 | 19 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Cedofeita | style="background:#00AAAA; color:white;"| 50.0 | 10 | 28.7 | 6 | 10.3 | 2 | 7.1 | 1 | 19 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Foz do Douro | style="background:#00AAAA; color:white;"| 56.4 | 8 | 27.2 | 4 | 7.5 | 1 | 5.2

| 13 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Lordelo do Ouro | style="background:#00AAAA; color:white;"| 47.5 | 7 | 32.3 | 5 | 11.1 | 1 | 6.2

| 13 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Massarelos | style="background:#00AAAA; color:white;"| 46.0 | 7 | 33.9 | 5 | 10.5 | 1 | 6.5

| 13 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Miragaia | 33.4 | 3 | style="background:#FF66FF; color:white;"| 36.9 | 4 | 19.8 | 2 | 7.1

| 9 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Nevogilde | style="background:#00AAAA; color:white;"| 76.9 | 8 | 14.5 | 1 | 2.0

| 3.4

| 9 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Paranhos | style="background:#00AAAA; color:white;"| 45.9 | 11 | 33.4 | 7 | 10.0 | 2 | 7.5 | 1 | 21 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Ramalde | style="background:#00AAAA; color:white;"| 47.9 | 10 | 34.0 | 7 | 8.2 | 1 | 6.4 | 1 | 19 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Santo Ildefonso | style="background:#00AAAA; color:white;"| 44.7 | 7 | 29.9 | 4 | 9.7 | 1 | 7.7 | 1 | 13 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Sé | 24.1 | 2 | style="background:#FF66FF; color:white;"| 50.6 | 5 | 17.7 | 2 | 4.8

| 9 |- | style="text-align:left;" | São Nicolau | 24.4 | 2 | style="background:#FF66FF; color:white;"| 39.3 | 4 | 22.9 | 2 | 10.0 | 1 | 9 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Vitória | 26.3 | 3 | style="background:#FF66FF; color:white;"| 52.2 | 5 | 11.6 | 1 | 6.5

| 9 |- class="unsortable" style="background:#E9E9E9" | style="text-align:left;" | Total | style="background:#00AAAA; color:white;"| 44.4 | 99 | 35.1 | 79 | 10.2 | 21 | 6.8 | 8 | 207 |- | colspan=19 style="text-align:left;" | Source: Election Results

References

External links 2009 local election results