Benfica: Rui Costa and Noronha Lopes in the 2nd round. 17h after the world record, the results came out

Current president won the first round with a comfortable margin. More than 85 thousand voters – a record for any club.

O Benfica don’t have it yet president defined for the next term. None of the six candidates achieved an absolute majority, so between the two most voted: Rui Costa and Noronha Lopes.

List G, led by the current president, won in all votes: management, general assembly board, supervisory board and remuneration committee.

In the race for president, Rui Costa gathered 42.13% of votes, while Noronha Lopes got 30.46%show the .

Further behind were: Luís Filipe Vieira (13.86%), João Diogo Manteigas (11.48%), Martim Mayer (2.10%) and Cristóvão Carvalho (0.18%). None of these four candidates will be in the second round.

World record

“Sport Lisboa e Benfica and its partners gave, once again, a full demonstration of their unparalleled greatness – in Portugal and in the world. We set a new world record in an intense day of democracy, pluralism and respect for the history and values ​​of Sport Lisboa e Benfica”.

The reaction is from Rui Costa, this Sunday, highlighting the world record established on Saturday, election day: 85,422 members went to vote.

This is the largest number of people ever to vote in elections for a sports club. Anywhere in the world.

The previous record – quite distant – was held by Barcelona, ​​in 2010, when around 57 thousand members voted. Next again is Barcelona (2021), with 56 thousand voters, and then Boca Juniors (2023), with more than 43 thousand members voting, recalls .

Not even Benfica itself expected this turnout on Saturday: the counting of votes continued into the early morning and the following day, and the results were only revealed on Sunday afternoon, more than 17 hours later of the closing of the sections (Saturday, 10pm).

As a curiosity, more people voted in the Benfica elections than in five districts in this year’s elections: Portalegre (57 thousand, across the district), Bragança (69 thousand), Beja (73 thousand), Guarda (81 thousand) and Évora (84 thousand).

If it were different, it would be similar

Each partner has a different weight in the elections. The older the member, the more votes he has – there are 50 votes for each older member, at most.

But what would the result be like in a regime “one partner, one vote”?

The radio did the math: 38.38% for Rui Costa (lower percentage but winner nonetheless) and 31.62% for Noronha Lopes (percentage almost equal to the official one).

João Diogo Manteigas would be third placedremoving Luís Filipe Vieira from that position.

In other words, the last two presidents of Benfica – Vieira and Rui Costa – convinced the older partners more.

A final note: there was only one polling station that was not won, either by Rui Costa, or by Noronha Lopes – João Diogo Manteigas won in Marseille, France.