2025 Lisbon local election

The 2025 Lisbon local election was held on 12 October 2025 to elect the members for Lisbon City Council, Lisbon Municipal Assembly and the city's 24 parish assemblies.

Carlos Moedas, from the Social Democratic Party, ran for a second term as mayor of Lisbon, in coalition with CDS – People's Party and also with the Liberal Initiative, while the Socialist Party, led by Alexandra Leitão, led a left-wing coalition alongside the Left Bloc, LIVRE and People Animals Nature in order to defeat the center-right coalition. The Unitary Democratic Coalition (CDU) refused to be included in the PS-led coalition, and presented, for the fourth consecutive time, João Ferreira as candidate for mayor. Chega presented local Lisbon assembly member Bruno Mascarenhas as its mayoral candidate.

Despite predictions of a razor-thin contest, Carlos Moedas was re-elected for a second term as Lisbon mayor, gathering nearly 42% of the votes, albeit without a majority, while Alexandra Leitão and her left-wing coalition fell well behind, polling at just below 34%. Chega and CDU nearly tied in terms of votes, with preliminary results showing just an 11 vote margin between them, but Chega was able to elect 2 councillors, while CDU just one, losing one compared with 2021. Turnout increased to the highest level since 1985, with 57.2% of voters casting a ballot.

Due to the small margin of votes between CHEGA and CDU, which at first was updated to just a 3-vote difference after the final verification of ballots, and alleged irregularities in some ballots and precincts, CDU filed an appeal to the Constitutional Court to rule on the final election result. The Court ruling reduced the difference between CHEGA and CDU to just 1 vote, and asked for a recount in a polling station at São Domingos de Benfica parish. The recount didn't changed the one vote difference between the two parties, and, after the results of the recount were announced, CDU decided to not contest the recount's results.