2023 Portuguese legislative election (The Next Future)

The 2023 Portuguese Legislative Elections were held in October 5, 2023, when all 230 seats of the Assembly of the Republic were at stake.

Incumbent Prime Minister António Costa ran for the third time after being in office for 8 consecutive years. He faced the former Mayor of Porto Rui Rio, from the Social Democratic Party, for the second time, and defeated him in what was the worst showing for the Social Democratic Party ever. Even though Rui Rio was defeated, Costa surprisingly failed to get an absolute majority by 3 seats.

This election was marked by the rise of CHEGA! (who went from 1 MP to 14 MP's) and of the Liberal Initiative (who went from 1 MP to 6 MP's). The Left was generally defeated as the Left Bloc and the Communist Party lost 6 and 3 seats respectivelly. It was also to note that despite of getting almost a half of the percentage of the votes of 2019 (and even being the party to elect MP's with the smaller margin) the CDS-PP managed to keep it's 5 MP's, in a surprising win for the leader Francisco Rodrigues dos Santos. Meanwhile, the PAN Party got a worse result then in 2019, losing one MP in Setúbal. The LIVRE Party, who elected one MP in 2019 failed to elect a single MP.

This election was the only election since the Carnation Revolution where a party won all electoral circles of Continental Portugal.