Three parishes, in the municipalities of Arcos de Valdevez, Monção and Macedo de Cavaleiros, had to repeat voting this Sunday for the local elections due to ties recorded on October 12th. These were the results in each of them.
Arks
The PSD/CDS-PP candidate was relieved with his election as president of the parish council of Arcas, Macedo de Cavaleiros, but considers that in places like his there should be a single and united list.
“It doesn’t make sense in villages as small as ours to have this duality, these two lists, and I think that a common list will increasingly have to be formed, a single list, where there is consensus”, Mickael Silva told Lusa, who confessed to feeling “relief” with the election and that now it is time “for the warrior to rest”.
The mayor said he had also spoken to the candidate and competitor Ana Martins so that just one list could be formed, but both had already been approached by the parties and, therefore, “it was not possible”.
Mickael Silva beat the PS candidate and current president of the board, Ana Martins, by 19 votes. She got 53.54% of the votes, while the socialist got 45.13%. In the 2021 elections, the result was the opposite — Ana Martins won over Mickael Silva.
The two candidates went to elections this Sunday, after having received the same votes on October 12th, 100 each. The general tabulation assembly analyzed the ballots and took one vote from each one, but the tie remained.
The parish of Arcas, in the municipality of Macedo de Cavaleiros, has 338 voters, with the abstention rate being around 33%.
Macedo de Cavaleiros was one of the municipalities, in the district of Bragança, that changed color in these local elections. PSD candidate Sérgio Borges won the elections and prevented socialist Benjamim Rodrigues from serving a third term.
Lara
The Juntos Por Lara movement won the elections for the Parish Assembly of Lara, in the municipality of Monção, and in the Chamber the PSD had five elected, while the PS elected two members.
According to data from the Ministry of Internal Administration, the PSD won the elections for the Chamber of Monção, in the district of Viana do Castelo, with 66.44% of the votes and the PS obtained 22.23%.
In the Lara Parish Assembly, the Juntos Por Lara movement had 98 votes (50.52%) and four mandates, while the PSD, with 89 votes (45.88%), has three mandates.
The parish of Lara repeated the vote this Sunday for the three municipal bodies, after on October 12th there was a tie of 85 votes between the PSD candidacy and that of the Juntos Por Lara movement (each received 49.96% of the votes).
In today’s vote, 127 Lara voters (65.46%) voted for the PSD for the Monção Chamber and 57 (29.38%) voted for the PS.
On October 12, in that parish with 269 registered voters, 181 people voted and the PSD’s candidacy for the Chamber received 122 votes (67.40%) and the PS’s 43 (23.76%).
This difference meant that, in relation to the results of October 12th, the six mandates of the PSD in the executive were not confirmed.
The tie in Lara had given, on October 12th, six elected to the PSD in the Chamber of Monção (66.47% of the votes) and one to the PS (22.14%).
Goat
Finally, the PSD won with 49.81% of the votes and four elected, the vote for the Cabreiro Parish Assembly, in the municipality of Arcos de Valdevez, district of Viana do Castelo, according to data from the Ministry of Internal Administration.
On October 12, the PSD and the Todos Por Cabreiro movement tied with 120 votes (47.62%) for the election of the new president of the Parish Council.
In this Sunday’s results, the PSD had 131 votes and the Todos Por Cabreiro movement had 125 (47.53%).
The movement is represented with three elected representatives in the Cabreiro Parish Assembly.
The PSD won the elections in the municipality of Arcos de Valdevez, with 58.67% of the votes (five councilors) and the PS came in second place, with 23.91% and two councilors.
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