PS lost 55 municipalities to AD and 50 for arrival

On Sunday, around 6 pm, newspaper newsrooms were in poverty. The polls made to the ballot box, until 5 pm, revealed numbers that few wanted to accept as valid: the first one that arrived to say that AD would have 31%, PS 24 and arrives 22. André Ventura’s rise was evident in all polls and the parties knew it. The arrival was going to rise a lot at the expense of the PS – it ended the night with 50 municipalities won to the socialists. The other great loss of the night was the left block that from 274,029 votes in 2024 went to 119,211 – lost 154,818 votes.
The PS’s electoral disaster implied the fall of Pedro Nuno Santos from the PS leadership, a party that suffered one of the biggest defeats in its history, and went from 1,759,998 votes to 1,394,491.
On one night that must have had a flavor to the Liberal Initiative, it was almost all the same for Rui Rocha’s party, having achieved another deputy. OPCP, in turn, lost a representative and saw another 20,000 votes fly to other stops. In the election night, Paulo Raimundo even admitted that he could keep the four deputies, but Mariana Mortágua was able to be elected quietly – if you can use that word with a party that got only one of the five deputies that had. Opantambs it was trembling, but Inês Sousa Real managed to be reelected.
Pedro Nuno Santos may be linked to the second worst result in legislatures, which concerns parliamentary representation, not the number of votes. In 1985, with Almeida Santos at the head of the party, the PS only obtained 1,204,321 votes, which allowed them to elect 57 deputies, and in 1987, with Vitor Constantius in the leadership of the socialists – the PS failed to prevent Cavaco Silva from having 1,262,506 votes, electing 60 deputies.
Pedro Nuno Santos got more votes than Almeida Santos and Vitor Constâncio, 1,394,501, but only elected 58 deputies, and it is not predictable that two more with the circles of emigration. Thus, we will have Almeida Santos with 57 deputies, Pedro Nuno Santos with 58 or 59, and Vitor Constantius with 60.

The catastrophe
from Lisbon and Porto
In Lisbon alone, the socialists saw more than 64,000 voters, while in Porto the fall was even more dizzying: less 74,000 votes. Of the 77 deputies of 2024, the PS should go to 59, if it can elect a deputy in Europe or the rest of the world. At the time of the farewell, Pedro Nuno Santos explained that he will never endure an AD government that violates its principles and therefore will give the place to another. Already during the electoral night, while commenting on the elections in TVI/CNN, Sérgio Sousa Pinto was not sweet to the leader of the PS. «The future of the PS is concerned. Either the PS understands that it has to end this direction, or this direction ends the party. It is as simple as this, ”said the former leader of socialist youth, before learning the resignation of Pedro Nuno Santos.

Ad far
absolute majority
AD, who was the winner of the night, was far from the absolute majority, even with the deputies of the liberal initiative – at most they should reach 97. AD has 86 deputies and IL 9, increased one.
It is not surprising that many say that it arrives was the big winner of the night, went from 50 to 58 deputies, and could reach 60, becoming in the second force of the Hemiciclo. In addition to AD, who won the elections, which was therefore inevitably one of the winners, also the free of the winners of the night, increased the number of deputies from four to six, having achieved another 50,000 votes.
If on the left there was only one party that climbed, the free, where they will have gone the 154,818 of the BE, the 365,597 of the Socialist Party, the 21 thousand of the PCP and the 38,000 of the PAN – in total, the left lost 579,436 votes -? To realize that the 236,778 more vows of the arrival arrived via left and far left.
That’s why Oops reminds you of a Gaulo village surrounded by ‘arrival’ everywhere. It only won the Évora district, but even then lost six municipalities to arrive. In the end, the socialists accounted for 23,616 votes against 21,080 from the arrival.

The Three Fortresses
harshly
The Algarve is for André Ventura as Viseu was to Cavaco Silva: in 16 municipalities won 11 – seven of which with more than 35% of the votes – leaving only five for AD – Monchique, Faro, São Brás de Alportel, Tavira and Alcoutim.
Let us return to the Alentejo, where the arrival seems to capitalize with the speech about the Gypsies and the immigrants. In Beja got almost four thousand votes as the PSE in Portalegre, another old fortress of the socialists, got almost 30% of the votes.

Revealing Accounts
In these elections only AD managed to exceed 60% in a county, remembering the most nostalgic the celebrated maximums of chip. It was in Sernancelhe and Boticas that surpassed this bar.
In the 50%championship, only AD reached this level (see board). Where AD has to improve, it achieved less than 20%, it is from Santarém down. Beja, Évora, Portalegre, Setúbal was where it got worse results.
Already the PS only got a county with more than 40% of the votes, Gavião, in the district of Portalegre, and if it is true that it will need to bet the whole country, where it reached the worst numbers was in the districts of Leiria, Aveiro, Viseu and Madeira.
Already the arrival had the best result in Elvas, more than 40%, me in the cities of Lisbon Me Porto was below 20% – to highlight, on the other hand, the victory in Sintra, with more than 50 thousand votes.
Looking at the numbers of 2024 and 2025, it is clear that the arrival is rising almost all over the national territory, in the most shy places, in other numbers are impressive. But it is evident that the center is not the Forte Forte. Just see the 10 municipalities in Coimbra where you could not reach 20%
Returning to the great defeated night, the PS lost 50 municipalities to the arrival and 55 to AD, with the curiosity of AD to have lost the crow to the socialists. And it is in the Azores that AD seems not to replicate the good results of other municipalities, as it lost Vila Franca do Campo and Lagoa to arrive.

The difference of wood
It should be said that in Madeira together for the people (JPP) managed to elect his first deputy to the Assembly of the Republic. AD got another 4,455 votes, the arrival that exceeded the PS, had 2,742 votes, while the PS lost 11,019 voters. But in Madeira there is a curious phenomenon, as the Madeirans look at the regional elections, to which the president of the local government, differently from the legislature. In the Regional, of March 23, who reappointed Miguel Albuquerque in the lead of the island, the PSD alone got 62,085 votes. Now, as AD, it only reached 57,447, although this number is much more generous than it achieved in the last legislatures of 2024. On March 23, the second most voted party was Together for the People (JPP) who convinced more than 30,000 Madeiras to vote for their lists. The PS had been third with 22,355, while the arrival had not gone beyond fourth place with 7,821 votes. Less than two months later, the arrival can reach 29,038 votes and stay with second place. The PS reached the third and JPP fourth place, but, despite everything, allows it to elect a deputy.
If it arrives surprised in many districts, there is one that is still far from being able to convince: Bragança – the only district where the arrival can not elect any deputy, although the distance to the PS is decreasing.
They voted 5,965,322 people in a universe of 9,265,493 subscribers, when in 2024 they had gone to the polls plus 174,947 voters. And there were only 5,986 names in the electoral notebooks. L

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