The Guimarães Municipal Chamber () is the administrative authority in the municipality of

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. It has 48 freguesias in its area of jurisdiction and is based in the city of Guimarães, on the

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. These freguesias are: Abação e Gémeos; Airão Santa Maria, Airão São João e Vermil; Aldão; Arosa e Castelões,

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Urgezes Urgezes, previously known as Santo Estêvão de Urgezes, is a civil parish in the municipality of Guimarães, Portugal. The population in 2021 was 5,259 on an area of . The civil parish makes up part of the surroundings of the city center of Guima ...

. The Guimarães City Council is made up of 11 councillors, representing, currently, two different political forces. The first candidate on the list with the most votes in a municipal election or, in the event of a vacancy, the next candidate on the list, takes office as President of the Municipal Chamber.

List of the Presidents of the Municipal Chamber of Guimarães

* José Coelho da Mota Prego – (1???–1???)
* ??? – (18??–18??) ''president by 1841'' * ??? – (18??–18??) ''president by 1863 or 1864'' * Luís Cardoso Martins da Costa Macedo – (1870) * Luís Cardoso Martins da Costa Macedo – (1878) * António Coelho Mota Prego – (18??–188?) ''president by 1882'' * Luís Cardoso Martins da Costa Macedo – (1887–1892) * António Coelho Mota Prego – (189?–18??) ''president by 1893,'' ''1894', 1896'' ''and 1898'' *??? – (1???–190?) ''president by 1903'' * João Gomes de Oliveira Guimarães – (1905–1910) * José Pinto Teixeira de Abreu – (1910–1912) * Mariano Felgueiras – (1912–1917) * Rocha dos Santos – (1918–1919) * José Joaquim de Oliveira Bastos – (1919) * Mariano Felgueiras – (1919) * Francisco Moreira Sampaio – (1919–1922) * António Lopes de Carvalho – (1922) * Mariano Felgueiras – (1923–1926) * Gonçalo Monteiro de Meira – (1927–1928) * António Coelho Mota Prego – (1928–19??) ''president by 1928'' * Duarte do Amaral Pinto de Freitas – (1929–1931) * Rocha dos Santos – (1931–1934) * José Francisco dos Santos – (193?–1937) * José Magalhães e Couto – (1937–1939) * Rocha dos Santos – (1939–1945) * Fernando Manuel Castro Gonçalves – (1945–1947) * Augusto Fernandes de Castro Ferreira e Cunha – (1947–1949) * João Martins – (1949–1951) * Augusto Fernandes de Castro Ferreira e Cunha – (1951–1954) * José Magalhães e Couto – (1954–1955) * José Castro Ferreira – (1955–1963) * João Martins – (1963–1965) * José Pinto de Oliveira – (1965–1966) * João Mendes Ribeiro – (1966–1969) * Bernardino Abreu – (1969–1974) * José Augusto da Silva – (1974–1976) * Edmundo Marques Campos – (1976–1979) * António Augusto Xavier – (1979–1982) * Manuel Ferreira – (1982–1985) * António Augusto Xavier – (1985–1989) * António Magalhães Silva – (1989–2013) * Domingos Bragança – (2013–2025) ''(The list is incomplete)''

References

{{Municipal Chambers of Portugal

Municipal Chamber A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the gov ...