2021 Lisbon local election
26 September 2021
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All 17 Councillors in the Lisbon City Council 9 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Turnout | 51.0% 0.1 pp | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Valid votes per parish
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The 2021 Lisbon local election was held on 26 September 2021 to elect the members of the Lisbon City Council.
In a major upset, Carlos Moedas, the candidate of the centre-right New Times coalition led by the Social Democratic Party (PSD), was elected Mayor of Lisbon. The coalition managed to win with 34.3 percent of the votes and 7 councilors.
Incumbent mayor Fernando Medina, candidate of the Socialist Party (PS) running in alliance with LIVRE, lost his reelection bid, an office he had hold since 2015 and which had been held by PS since 2007. PS lost almost 10 percent of the votes compared with the previous election, with Medina labeling the defeat as "personal".
The Unitary Democratic Coalition (CDU) presented former MEP João Ferreira as their candidate, registering a slight electoral growth to 10.5 percent, the best result for CDU since 2005, and guaranteeing two Communist councilors. The Left Bloc, which presented Beatriz Gomes Dias as a candidate for mayor, managed to keep their sole seat in the municipal council, despite a slight drop in votes. People-Animals-Nature, Chega, and Liberal Initiative failed to elect any councilors.