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Catarina Martins

The Left in the European Parliament (GUE/NGL) · BE

92%participation, 334 of 364 votesMedian: The Left 87% · Portugal 90% · all MEPs 89%
92%of votes matched the position of The Left
62%of For and Against votes on the winning side
25votes off the group line, of 330 comparable

Details

How they were elected

List
Bloco de Esquerda (BE)168,107 votes, 4.3%, 1 seat
Position on the list
1
Electoral rule
In Portugal, lists are closed: voters choose a party list, and seats go to its candidates in the order the party set.

National Elections Commission (CNE), Mapa Oficial n.º 4/2024. List votes, position on the list: National Elections Commission (CNE, Mapa Oficial n.º 4/2024) and the lists admitted by the Constitutional Court (Proc. 435/2024), collected on 13 October 2026.

Where the votes came from

Where the Bloco de Esquerda (BE) list won votes in the 2024 European election

The map shows the share of valid votes won by this list in each of the 3,092 parishes, from the provisional count: 165,470 votes, 4.3% of valid votes. The 2,609 votes cast abroad have no parish and are not on the map.

0.0% to 1.6%1.6% to 2.4%2.4% to 3.2%3.2% to 4.4%4.4% to 12.8%% of valid votes

Strongest areas (at least 1,000 valid votes)

  • São VicenteLisboa, Lisboa10.9% · 557
  • Penha de FrançaLisboa, Lisboa10.4% · 1,132
  • ArroiosLisboa, Lisboa9.5% · 1,107
  • União das freguesias de Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau e VitóriaPorto, Porto9.3% · 1,440
  • Santa Maria MaiorLisboa, Lisboa9.1% · 340

Provisional results supplied by SGMAI-AE (Ministry of Internal Administration), 2024 European Parliament election, collected on 9 October 2026; the same figures, parish by parish, are in BLUE_EP (Hublet, F. (2024). BLUE_EP: A Dataset of Municipality-Level Results of European Parliament Elections. Codebook v1. Paris: Groupe d'études géopolitiques. 10.5281/zenodo.14569325, CC BY 4.0). The official result (National Elections Commission, Mapa Oficial n.º 4/2024) has national totals only: the provisional count is 0.08% lower in valid votes, and the seats are the same. Percentages, colour classes and sums calculated by Parliament Radar. Informação geográfica cedida pela Direção-Geral do Território (CAOP 2024, CC BY 4.0), simplified.

How Catarina Martins voted

Most recent first

Source: European Parliament roll-call votes, via HowTheyVote (ODbL). Collected 8 November 2026.

Off the group line

25 of 330 comparable votes

Votes in 2026

For 183Abstain 45Against 106Did not vote 30

Alignment with each group

Share of Catarina Martins's votes that matched each group's position

EPP48%
S&D59%
PfE38%
ECR38%
Renew55%
Greens/EFA70%
The Leftown group92%
ESN32%

In Parliament

Country
Portugal
Group
The Left in the European Parliament (GUE/NGL)
National party
BE

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Method

Participation: Share of the votes the Radar follows (HowTheyVote main votes and final roll-call votes) in which the MEP voted. Not attendance; excused absences are not counted. Winning side: Of the For and Against votes, the share on the side of the result: For when adopted, Against when rejected. Abstentions and absences are left out. Off the group line: a vote different from the position of the MEP's own group on that day; divided groups and non-attached members are left out. Full method