2005 Porto local election

Portuguese municipal election 2005 Portuguese local elections 2005 Porto local elections 50px|link=Porto parliamentary 2001 Porto local election 2001 2009 Porto local election 2009 9 October 2005 All 13 Councillors in the Porto City Council 7 58.5% 10.2 pp 2005 Porto local election#Opinion polling EBO 00001 (6860689058).jpg 420 110 150 28 231 center Rui Rio 00aaaa Social Democratic Party (Portugal) For Porto, Once Again 6 seats, 42.8% 63,443 7 1 46.2% 3.4 pp FranciscoAssis.png 205 110 150 0 45 Francisco Assis Socialist Party (Portugal) 6 seats, 38.5% 49,653 5 1 36.1% 2.4 pp 100px Rui Sá PCP CDU FF0000 1 seat, 10.5% 12,311 1 9.0% 1.5 pp Mayor Rui Rio Social Democratic Party (Portugal) Rui Rio Social Democratic Party (Portugal) The 2005 Porto local election was held on 9 October 2005 to elect the members of the Porto City Council. Incumbent Mayor Rui Rio, from the PSD/CDS coalition, won a second term as Mayor of Porto, achieving 46.2% of the votes and 7 seats and defeating Socialist candidate Francisco Assis, who won 36.1% of the votes and 5 seats. Background In the 2001 election, Rui Rio, candidate for the PSD/CDS coalition, unexpectedly won and became mayor of Porto, winning 42.8% of the votes and 6 seats. He defeated the incumbent mayor Fernando Gomes from the Socialist Party, who won 6 seats and about 38.5% of the votes. The Unitary Democratic Coalition got 1 seat and 10.5% of the votes.Carrapatoso Miguel Santos Como Rui Rio governou o Porto. 12 histórias para conhecer melhor o novo líder do PSD https://observador.pt/especiais/como-rui-rio-governou-o-porto-12-historias-para-conhecer-melhor-o-candidato-a-lider-do-psd/ 2025-01-19 Observador pt-PT Rui Rio decided to govern with the CDU, in a coalition that was called the "Vodka Laranja" or Orange Vodka.Vodka com laranja e outras aberrações https://arrastao.blogs.sapo.pt/2908058.html 2025-07-20 arrastao.blogs.sapo.pt pt Rio's first term was marked by several controversies, from accusing the previous PS local government of concealing financial liabilities, to his clash with the city's most popular football club, FC Porto, regarding the construction of the club's new stadium.Controvérsia marcou primeiro mandato de Rio https://www.publico.pt/2009/02/02/jornal/controversia-marcou-primeiro-mandato-de-rio-293895 2009-02-02 2026-04-06 Público pt-PTRui Rio «estupefacto» com decisão do F.C. Porto https://tvi.iol.pt/noticias/geral/01-03-2002/rui-rio-estupefacto-com-decisao-do-f-c-porto 2002-03-01 2026-04-06 TVI pt-PTPereira Helena Guerra de Rui Rio com FC Porto incomoda PSD https://www.publico.pt/2003/05/09/politica/noticia/guerra-de-rui-rio-com-fc-porto-incomoda-psd-1146705 2003-05-09 2026-04-06 Público pt-PT 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.::: Lei n.º 169/99, de 18 de Setembro https://www.pgdlisboa.pt/leis/lei_mostra_articulado.php?nid=592&tabela=leis&so_miolo= 2022-02-12 www.pgdlisboa.pt Parties and candidates Party/Coalition Politicalposition Candidate AUTO DE SORTEIO DAS LISTAS ELEIÇÕES AL 2005 https://www.cne.pt/sites/default/files/dl/autosorteio_al2005.pdf 2026-04-05 pt 2001 result Votes (%) Seats PPUVM For Porto, Once AgainPelo Porto, Uma Vez Mais PSD, CDS–PP Centre-right Rui Rio 42.8% 6 13 #00AAAA PS Socialist PartyPartido Socialista Centre-left Francisco Assis 38.5% 6 13 Socialist Party (Portugal) CDU Unitary Democratic CoalitionColigação Democrática Unitária PCP, PEV Left-wingto far-left Rui Sá10.5% 1 13 #FF0000 BE Left BlocBloco de Esquerda Left-wingto far-left João Teixeira Lopes pt 2.6% 0 13 Left Bloc (Portugal) PCTP Portuguese Workers' Communist PartyPartido Comunista dos Trabalhadores Portugueses Far-left João Valente Pinto 0.6% 0 13 PH Humanist PartyPartido Humanista Centre-left Maria Alice Ribeiro 0.5% 0 13 PC Porto Capital!Porto Capital! PND, PPM Right-wing António Almeida Garrett MPT Earth PartyPartido da Terra Centre-right António José de Carvalho PNR National Renovator PartyPartido Nacional Renovador Far-right Carlos Branco Opinion polling #EAFFEA Exit poll 1px solid #AAAAAA Polling firm/Link Fieldwork date Sample size PSDCDS PS CDU BE O Other Lead 2005 local election 9 Oct 2005 46.275% Verdana 7 36.175% Verdana 5 9.075% Verdana 1 4.275% Verdana 0 4.575% Verdana 010.1 UCP 9 Oct 2005 ? 43–48 36–40 7–10 3–5 –7–8 Eurosondagem 2–5 Oct 2005 1,05741.2 39.1 9.1 5.9 4.7 2.1 Intercampus 1–5 Oct 2005 1,000 37.539.3 10.2 6.6 6.4 1.8 UCP 1–2 Oct 2005 2,39243 36 7 6 7 7 Marktest 1 Oct 2005 40149.1 29.5 8.2 6.0 7.1 19.6 UCP 4–6 Jul 2005 91055 29 9 3 4 26 IPOM 16–17 Mar 2005 59844.3 35.3 20.4 9.0 Eurosondagem 13–14 Mar 2005 75746 40 14 6 2001 local election 16 Dec 2001 42.775% Verdana 6 38.575% Verdana 6 10.575% Verdana 1 2.675% Verdana 0 5.775% Verdana 04.2 Results Municipal Council Summary of the 9 October 2005 Municipal Council elections resultsin Porto |- | colspan="11" style="text-align:center;" | #F8F9FA Unitary Democratic Coalition 1 Socialist Party (Portugal) 5 Porto First 7 #00AAAA |- ! 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 |63,430||46.17||3.4||7||1 |- | Socialist Party (Portugal) Socialist |49,653||36.14||2.3||5||1 |- | Unitary Democratic Coalition Unitary Democratic Coalition |12,309||8.96||1.5||1||0 |- | Left Bloc (Portugal) Left Bloc |5,797||4.22||1.7||0||0 |- | Portuguese Workers' Communist Party Portuguese Workers' Communist |767||0.56||0.3||0||0 |- |style="width: 9px" bgcolor=#005FAD align="center" | |align=left|New Democracy / People's Monarchist |439||0.32||||0|| |- | Earth Party Earth |236||0.17||||0|| |- | Humanist Party (Portugal) Humanist |200||0.15||0.3||0||0 |- | National Renovator Party National Renovator |121||0.09||||0|| |- |colspan=2 width="330" align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total valid |width="50" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|132,952 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|96.77 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|1.2 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|13 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|0 |- |colspan=2|Blank ballots |2,995||2.18||0.8||colspan=3 rowspan=4| |- |colspan=2|Invalid ballots |1,437||1.05||0.4 |- |colspan=2 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total |width="50" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|137,384 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| |- |colspan=2|Registered voters/turnout ||234,749||58.52||10.3 |- | colspan=11 align=left | Source: Porto 2005 election results |} Municipal Assembly Summary of the 9 October 2005 Porto Municipal Assembly electionsresults |- | colspan="11" style="text-align:center;" | #F8F9FA Left Bloc 2 Unitary Democratic Coalition 4 Socialist Party (Portugal) 15 Porto First 18 #00AAAA |- ! 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 |60,049||43.71||0.5||18||0 |- | Socialist Party (Portugal) Socialist |47,867||34.84||1.1||15||1 |- | Unitary Democratic Coalition Unitary Democratic Coalition |14,317||10.42||0.6||4||0 |- | Left Bloc (Portugal) Left Bloc |9,347||6.80||0.7||2||1 |- |style="width: 9px" bgcolor=#005FAD align="center" | |align=left|New Democracy / People's Monarchist |831||0.60||||0|| |- |colspan=2 width="330" align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total valid |width="50" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|132,411 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|96.38 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|0.9 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|39 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|0 |- |colspan=2|Blank ballots |3,370||2.45||0.8||colspan=3 rowspan=4| |- |colspan=2|Invalid ballots |1,606||1.17||0.1 |- |colspan=2 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total |width="50" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|137,387 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00 |width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| |- |colspan=2|Registered voters/turnout ||234,749||58.52||10.3 |- | colspan=11 align=left | Source: Porto 2005 election results |} Parish Assemblies Results of the 9 October 2005 Porto Parish Assembly elections yes |- class="unsortable" !rowspan=2|Parish!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S !rowspan=2|TotalS |- class="unsortable" style="text-align:center;" !colspan=2 | PPUVM !colspan=2 | PS !colspan=2 | CDU !colspan=2 | BE |- | style="text-align:left;" | Aldoar | 35.8 | 5 | style="background:#FF66FF; color:white;"| 44.7 | 6 | 8.8 | 1 | 6.6 | 1 | 13 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Bonfim | style="background:#00AAAA; color:white;"| 47.1 | 10 | 32.4 | 6 | 10.1 | 2 | 6.2 | 1 | 19 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Campanhã | 27.6 | 6 | style="background:#FF66FF; color:white;"| 50.1 | 10 | 13.2 | 2 | 5.4 | 1 | 19 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Cedofeita | style="background:#00AAAA; color:white;"| 50.5 | 10 | 28.8 | 6 | 9.3 | 2 | 6.9 | 1 | 19 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Foz do Douro | style="background:#00AAAA; color:white;"| 53.7 | 8 | 28.0 | 4 | 8.9 | 1 | 5.0 | - | 13 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Lordelo do Ouro | style="background:#00AAAA; color:white;"| 45.0 | 7 | 34.6 | 5 | 10.8 | 1 | 6.0 | - | 13 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Massarelos | style="background:#00AAAA; color:white;"| 44.8 | 6 | 32.4 | 5 | 12.2 | 1 | 6.9 | 1 | 13 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Miragaia | 23.5 | 2 | style="background:#FF66FF; color:white;"| 42.2 | 4 | 25.7 | 3 | 5.8 | - | 9 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Nevogilde | style="background:#00AAAA; color:white;"| 73.8 | 8 | 16.5 | 1 | 2.5 | - | 3.2 | - | 9 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Paranhos | style="background:#00AAAA; color:white;"| 42.9 | 10 | 34.5 | 8 | 9.3 | 2 | 6.2 | 1 | 21 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Ramalde | style="background:#00AAAA; color:white;"| 46.2 | 9 | 36.4 | 7 | 9.3 | 2 | 6.2 | 1 | 19 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Santo Ildefonso | style="background:#00AAAA; color:white;"| 46.3 | 7 | 33.0 | 5 | 10.5 | 1 | 6.5 | - | 13 |- | style="text-align:left;" | São Nicolau | 29.0 | 3 | style="background:#FF66FF; color:white;"| 43.8 | 5 | 15.1 | 1 | 7.5 | - | 9 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Sé | 34.4 | 3 | style="background:#FF66FF; color:white;"| 42.9 | 5 | 14.5 | 1 | 3.9 | - | 9 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Vitória | 29.6 | 3 | style="background:#FF66FF; color:white;"| 47.6 | 5 | 13.7 | 1 | 4.8 | - | 9 |- class="unsortable" style="background:#E9E9E9" | style="text-align:left;" | Total | style="background:#00AAAA; color:white;"| 42.9 | 97 | 36.0 | 82 | 10.4 | 21 | 6.0 | 7 | 207 |- | colspan=19 style="text-align:left;" | Source: Election Results |} References External links 2005 local election results Category:2005 elections in Portugal Category:Elections in Porto Category:21st century in Porto