Europe (Assembly of the Republic constituency)


Europe is one of the 22 multi-member constituencies of the Assembly of the Republic, the national legislature of Portugal. It consists of Portuguese citizens residing abroad, registered in Portuguese diplomatic posts in European countries. The constituency was established in 1976 when the Assembly of the Republic was established by the constitution following the restoration of democracy. The constituency is fixed at electing two of the 230 members of the Assembly of the Republic using the closed party-list proportional representation electoral system. At the 2025 legislative election it had 948,062 registered voters.

Definition

For elections to the Assembly of the Republic, Portuguese law establishes two constituencies of Portuguese citizens residing abroad: the constituency of Europe, comprising voters registered in Portuguese diplomatic posts in European countries; and the constituency of Outside Europe, comprising voters registered in other posts. For this purpose, European countries include Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Georgia, Russia and Turkey, but not Kazakhstan.
Each diplomatic post registers voters residing in its area of jurisdiction, which may include multiple countries and territories in different continents. As a result, as of 2025, the constituency of Europe also includes citizens residing in Lebanon, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and in dependent territories of European countries, except British Overseas Territories in the Caribbean and Oceania. Afghanistan was in the jurisdiction of the embassy in Turkey, in the constituency of Europe, for the 2022 election, but changed to the embassy in Pakistan, in the constituency of Outside Europe, for the 2024 election.

Election results

The constituency of Europe elects two of the 230 members of the Assembly of the Republic using the closed party-list proportional representation electoral system. Seats are allocated using the D'Hondt method.

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Detailed

2025

Results of the 2025 legislative election held on 18 May 2025:
The following candidates were elected: José Dias Fernandes and José Manuel Fernandes.

2024

Results of the 2024 legislative election held on 10 March 2024:
The following candidates were elected: José Dias Fernandes and Paulo Pisco.

2022

The results of the 2022 legislative election held on 30 January 2022 in the constituency were annulled by the Constitutional Court due ballot papers without copies of voter IDs being mixed with those with voter IDs at around 150 polling stations. Results of the re-run held on 12 and 13 March 2022:
The following candidates were elected: Nathalie Oliveira and Paulo Pisco.

2019

Results of the 2019 legislative election held on 6 October 2019:
The following candidates were elected: Carlos Alberto Gonçalves and Paulo Pisco.

2015

Results of the 2015 legislative election held on 4 October 2015:
The following candidates were elected: Carlos Alberto Gonçalves and Paulo Pisco.

2011

Results of the 2011 legislative election held on 5 June 2011:
The following candidates were elected: Carlos Alberto Gonçalves and Paulo Pisco.

2009

Results of the 2009 legislative election held on 27 September 2009:
The following candidates were elected: Carlos Alberto Gonçalves and Paulo Pisco.

2005

Results of the 2005 legislative election held on 20 February 2005:
The following candidates were elected: Maria Carrilho and Carlos Alberto Gonçalves.

2002

Results of the 2002 legislative election held on 17 March 2002:
The following candidates were elected: Carlos Alberto Gonçalves and Carlos Luís.

1999

Results of the 1999 legislative election held on 10 October 1999:
The following candidates were elected: Carlos Luís and Paulo Pisco.

1995

Results of the 1995 legislative election held on 1 October 1995:
The following candidates were elected: Paulo Pereira Coelho and Carlos Luís.

1991

Results of the 1991 legislative election held on 6 October 1991:
The following candidates were elected: Pereira Lopes and Caio Roque.

1987

Results of the 1987 legislative election held on 19 July 1987:
The following candidates were elected: Nascimento Rodrigues and Caio Roque.

1985

Results of the 1985 legislative election held on 6 October 1985:
The following candidates were elected: Maria Manuela Aguiar and Rodolfo Crespo.

1983

Results of the 1983 legislative election held on 25 April 1983:
The following candidates were elected: José Figueiredo and Coimbra Martins.

1980

Results of the 1980 legislative election held on 5 October 1980:
The following candidates were elected: Nandim de Carvalho and João Vieira Lima.

1979

Results of the 1979 legislative election held on 2 December 1979:
The following candidates were elected: João Vieira Lima and José Theodoro da Silva.

1976

Results of the 1976 legislative election held on 25 April 1976:
The following candidates were elected: João Cacela Leitão and João Vieira Lima.

Voter statistics

The table below lists the number of voters registered in Portuguese diplomatic posts located in each country, for each legislative election. Some posts have jurisdiction over multiple countries and territories in different continents, so some numbers in the table include some voters residing in locations other than the named country.
The number of voters increased dramatically in 2018 due to the adoption of automatic voter registration.
Country202520242022201920152011200920052002
France382,120381,591395,266402,73840,16645,50046,64951,15959,251
United Kingdom184,383176,633156,709125,4951,8529579809931,211
Switzerland147,601147,881149,728146,7959,4577,7135,2834,4085,063
Germany75,80975,66276,05778,00514,21910,71810,21911,34811,723
Spain44,93045,29342,69138,5824,9453,1152,5372,3292,272
Luxembourg36,90336,87640,27747,0261,4721,6021,7911,7511,766
Netherlands20,16418,04814,98612,2781,080865745753867
Belgium18,07017,33018,15719,2611,9492,2692,3761,5001,461
Ireland7,2376,3694,7153,82714752392424
Andorra4,7646,9237,7936,9991,168675455347632
Norway4,3014,0663,1862,822148137151128121
Italy4,1423,9443,2952,728508674703611614
Turkey4,0583,8683,0271,5268482
Denmark3,0072,7641,8941,147130126102100116
Sweden2,7372,5922,2191,693454213181182220
Austria2,1151,9991,8111,58314795865567
Poland1,2431,1349586621279347613
Romania95388382471228171611
Finland82181058636011972511818
Czech Republic7156915673573612677
Cyprus429371256180986
Greece4264242911313550525252
Bulgaria2802982361831014769
Hungary24824922418532311199
Russia18621125116716761115
Serbia148133100384256
Slovakia12612111459
Ukraine798410678
Croatia67635232711
Slovenia127
Malta75
Estonia3
Total948,062937,311926,376895,59078,34575,05272,52875,80385,538