After the local elections, parties meet to analyze the results

The performance of the various parties in Sunday's local elections varied, but their strategy remains the same. The PSD, PS, and PCP will meet to evaluate the results.

The core of the PSD leadership, the standing committee, will meet this morning in Lisbon , two days after the election victory, starting at 10:30 a.m. at a Lisbon hotel. Leonor Beleza, the party's first vice-president, is expected to make a statement to the press at the end. This body includes the PSD president and also prime minister, Luís Montenegro, the party's six vice-presidents, the secretary-general and parliamentary leader Hugo Soares, and, as a guest, the national coordinator for local government, Pedro Alves, according to a press release.

The Socialist Party's National Political Committee will also analyze the results of the local elections this Tuesday and discuss its position on the 2026 State Budget (OE2026), a document that will also be analyzed during a meeting between the Socialist leader and the parliamentary group. According to an official source from the Socialist Party, José Luís Carneiro, the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party, will have a meeting with the parliamentary group leadership late this morning, followed by a meeting with PS deputies in the Assembly of the Republic at 6:00 pm to discuss the party's position on the OE2026, whose openness to implementation was expressed during the election campaign.

In the evening, at Largo do Rato, the PS National Political Committee will meet to discuss not only the 2026 State Budget but also to analyze the election results from Sunday's local elections.

The PCP (Portuguese Communist Party) is holding its Central Committee meeting this Tuesday to analyze the results of the local elections , in which the CDU (Brazilian Communist Party) once again lost its seats, leaving it with only 12 municipalities and no district capitals. The meeting's conclusions will be presented at a press conference by PCP Secretary-General Paulo Raimundo at 6:00 PM at the party's national headquarters in Lisbon.

The PSD won Sunday's local elections. Alone and in coalitions, the party managed to elect the most mayors, 136 , according to provisional results from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and will govern with an absolute majority in 109 municipalities. Of these, 78 were elected on PSD-only lists and 58 in coalitions. In total, the PSD received nearly 1.9 million votes and 34.31% of the total.

Compared to the previous local elections, in 2021, the party won 22 more councils (it had 114) and reversed the leadership of local power, with more councils and parishes than the PS, which will allow it to lead the National Association of Portuguese Municipalities (ANMP) and the National Association of Parishes (Anafre), the objective set by Luís Montenegro.

The PSD, alone or in coalitions, won the five most populous municipalities in the country – keeping Lisbon and Cascais, recovering Porto, Vila Nova de Gaia and Sintra – and also winning in the socialist stronghold of Guimarães.

The Socialist Party , after Sunday's local elections, ceased to be the leading force in local government in Portugal and became the president of 128 councils , two of them in coalition, compared to 149 councils in 2021, one of which was in coalition. The Socialists thus lost the leadership of the ANMP to the PSD and once again failed to win Lisbon and Porto.

The CDU was also one of the losers of the local elections night, as it obtained its worst result ever: from the 19 municipal councils it had won in 2021, it dropped to 12. The coalition lost the district capitals of Évora and Setúbal, and of the 19 councils it had in 2021, it only kept eight: Barrancos, Cuba, Arraiolos, Silves, Avis, Palmela, Seixal, and Sesimbra.