The Tagus River divides Portugal. But the PS (almost) does not enter the new accounts

From Viana do Castelo to Santarém, we only see orange. From portalegre down we just see it is – except for Évora. The country has changed.

Last year, André Ventura sang victory after the legislative elections, saying that the Arrives had managed to end a bipartisan Portugal. It was not true.

A year later, Ventura said the same thing – but this time it’s true: AD won In most electoral circles from Portugal, but the second party With more electoral circles it was not the PS. It was the He arrives.

And here there is a clear division: north of the Tagus River AD won in all districts. To the south, the arrival won in almost all (Portalegre, Setúbal, Beja and Faro). Only Évora was won by PS.

Globally, the He arrives was the most voted party in the five electoral circles south of the Tagus River, with a total of 266,484 votes, in Sunday’s legislatures.

In the south of the country, the PS was the second most voted, with 229,249 Bulletinsfollowed by AD com 214.469.

In the greatest of these circles, Setúbal, The arrival obtained its greatest victory in absolute numbers, with 129,569 votes, followed by the PS and AD. Compared to 2024, the PS lost 34,487 votes and two deputies, with it gains three more elected and moving from Monday to first force. Ad remained as a third force and climbed a deputy, the PCP-PEV kept an elected, the same succeeding with the free (which went from 7th to 5th place) and the IL. The BE lost its deputy, losing 40 percent of his electorate.

Em Évora, The PS maintained first place, but descended 5,693 votes (27.81%), with it growing almost that value, becoming the second most voted force. The number of elected deputies remained the same, with one for each of the three main parties.

As in 2024, Portalegre It was the only district in the country where AD does not elect a deputy, but here the news is the victory of the arrival, with another 2,200 votes (39.9%), compared to the previous year. The PS lost the district and more than four thousand votes, with AD to be in third place, only 667 votes to elect a deputy, for exchange with the PS.

Em Beja, The arrival obtained a victory with almost a thousand votes than the PS (27.73%), but the number of deputies remained divided by the three main parties, with AD in third place. Compared to 2024, the arrival rose four thousand votes, about the same number that the PS lost.

Em Faro, In 2024, the arrival won the electoral circle, but the nine deputies were divided equally by the three main parties, a result that has not been now. Here, the arrival increased by almost 14 thousand votes, with the PS losing the same value. In the proportion of elected, the arrival elected four deputies, against three from AD and two from the PS. It was in the district of Faro that the arrival obtained the best national result, with (33.9%), above AD in the national level.

There are commentators who claim it is a “Portugal forgotten” that prefers it. Portuguese who consider themselves marginalized by successive governments, who have been in years or decades of new infrastructure, new transport, more investments.

Even in some municipalities within the largest districts – just look at the outskirts of Lisbon, where Azambuja, Sintra and Vila Franca de Xira were municipalities won by the arrival.