The former socialist general secretary also surpassed the results of other presidents such as António Ramalho Eanes, Jorge Sampaio, in an election that marks the 11th time that the Portuguese have chosen the President of the Republic in democracy since 1976.
António José Seguro achieved it on the night this Sunday the highest number of votes ever in a reaching 3,477,717 votes, with 21 parishes and eight consulates still to be counted.
The former general secretary of the Socialist Party surpassed 3,459,521 voters who voted in 1991 for Mário Soares, who won with an impressive 70.35%, a percentage that until this Sunday was the highest ever.
Previously, in the 1986 presidential elections, the only ones to date to have a second round, the historic socialist leader obtained 3,010,756 votes (51.18%) in the second vote against Freitas do Amaral.
António Ramalho Eanes was also re-elected with more than three million votes (3,262,520, or 56.44%) in 1980, while Jorge Sampaio received 3,035,056 million votes (53.91%) in his first election, in 1996.
This was the 11th time that the Portuguese were called upon to choose the President of the Republic in a democracy, since 1976.
The current President of the Republic, elected in 2016, is Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, who ends his term in March 2026.
Since 1976, António Ramalho Eanes (1976-1986), Mário Soares (1986-1996), Jorge Sampaio (1996-2006), Cavaco Silva (2006-2016) and Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa (2016-2026) have been elected.
