The 2013 Lisbon local election was held on 29 September 2013 to elect the members of the
Lisbon City Council
Lisbon (; pt, Lisboa ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 544,851 within its administrative limits in an area of 100.05 km2. Grande Lisboa, Lisbon's urban area extends beyond the city's administr ...
.
Against a weak opposition,
António Costa
António Luís Santos da Costa GCIH (; born 17 July 1961) is a Portuguese lawyer and politician serving as the 119th and current prime minister of Portugal since 26 November 2015, presiding over the XXI (2015–2019), XXII (2019–2022) and ...
, mayor since 2007, was elected for a full second term, defeating
Fernando Seara
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, by then incumbent and term limited mayor of
Sintra
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, of the ''Feel Lisbon'' coalition between the
Social Democratic Party
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Active parties
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Earth Party
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(MPT) by a landslide, 51 to 22 percent. Seara's candidacy was surrounded in controversy due to the recent changes in the law that established term limits for mayors. This law prohibits a candidate, after having served for three terms, to run for Mayor, Municipal Assemblies or Parish Assemblies. But the law did not explicitly state whether it prohibits reelection only for the same municipality or parish, or for the same position in ''any'' municipality or parish. This matter was only resolved on 5 September 2013 with a ruling of the Constitutional Court allowing mayoral candidates that had already served three consecutive mandates to run for election in a different municipality.
The Unitary Democratic Coalition presented incumbent
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João Ferreira João Ferreira may refer to:
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João Manuel Peixoto Ferreira (born 20 Nove ...
as their mayoral candidate and won nearly 10 percent of the votes and gained one seat, electing two in total. The
Left Bloc Left Bloc may refer to:
* Left Bloc (Portugal), a political party in Portugal
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, presented
João Semedo
João Pedro Furtado da Cunha Semedo (20 June 1951 – 17 July 2018) was a Portuguese physician and politician.
He was born in 1951 in Lisbon, where he attended Camões Secondary School and graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the Unive ...
as candidate for Mayor, but failed to win a seat.
Turnout was the second lowest ever, just 45.1 percent casting a ballot, surpassed only by the 2007 numbers.
Background
In the 2009 election, the
Socialist Party
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led by
António Costa
António Luís Santos da Costa GCIH (; born 17 July 1961) is a Portuguese lawyer and politician serving as the 119th and current prime minister of Portugal since 26 November 2015, presiding over the XXI (2015–2019), XXII (2019–2022) and ...
, won an absolute majority with 44 percent of the votes and 9 councillors, defeating former Lisbon mayor and
Prime Minister
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Pedro Santana Lopes that gathered nearly 39 percent of the votes and 7 councillors.
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
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. Unlike in national legislative elections, independent lists are allowed to run.
swing
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Socialist
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PPV
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Labour
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swing
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* Swing rid ...
Socialist
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PPV
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Technology
* Pay-per-view on cable or satellite television
* People Powered Vehicle, a human-powered vehicle from 1970
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Scienc ...
Labour
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* Childbirth, the delivery of a baby
* Labour (human activity), or work
** Manual labour, physical work
** Wage labour, a socioeconomic relationship between a worker and an employer
** Organized labour and the labour ...
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Ajuda
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Alvalade Alvalade may refer to the following places in Portugal:
*Alvalade (Lisbon), a freguesia (civil parish) in the municipality of Lisbon
*Alvalade (Santiago do Cacém), a freguesia (civil parish) in the Santiago do Cacém Municipality, Alentejo
*Estád ...
Arroios
Arroios () is a ''freguesia'' (civil parish) and district of Lisbon, the capital of Portugal. Located in central Lisbon, Arroios is north of Santa Maria Maior and São Vicente, east of Santo António, south of Avenidas Novas and Areeiro, and wes ...
Belém
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Campo de Ourique
Campo de Ourique () is a ''freguesia'' (civil parish) and district of Lisbon, the capital of Portugal. Located in the historic center of Lisbon, Campo de Ourique is east of Alcântara, north of Estrela, west of Santo António, and south of Campoli ...
Campolide
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Lumiar
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Misericórdia
Misericórdia () is a ''freguesia'' (civil parish) and district of Lisbon, the capital of Portugal. Located in the historic center of Lisbon, Misericórdia is to the east of Estrela, west of Santa Maria Maior, and south of Santo António. It is h ...
Parque das Nações
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Santo António
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São Domingos de Benfica
São Domingos de Benfica () is a ''freguesia'' (civil parish) and district of Lisbon, the capital of Portugal. Located in northern Lisbon, São Domingos de Benfica is east of Benfica, south of Carnide, west of Alvalade, and north of Campolide. Th ...