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Hélder Sousa Silva

European People's Party (EPP) · PSD

95%participation, 347 of 364 votesMedian: EPP 90% · Portugal 90% · all MEPs 89%
97%of votes matched the position of EPP
93%of For and Against votes on the winning side
9votes off the group line, of 347 comparable

Details

How they were elected

List
Aliança Democrática (PSD, CDS-PP, PPM)1,229,895 votes, 31.7%, 7 seats
Position on the list
4
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 Aliança Democrática (PSD, CDS-PP, PPM) 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: 1,221,504 votes, 31.8% of valid votes. The 7,283 votes cast abroad have no parish and are not on the map.

6.9% to 27.5%27.5% to 34.1%34.1% to 39.6%39.6% to 46.3%46.3% to 77.7%% of valid votes

Strongest areas (at least 1,000 valid votes)

  • Arco da CalhetaCalheta, Ilha da Madeira62.1% · 914
  • CanhasPonta do Sol, Ilha da Madeira60.7% · 996
  • CalhetaCalheta, Ilha da Madeira59.9% · 867
  • Duas IgrejasParedes, Porto58.9% · 682
  • União das freguesias de Santa Catarina da Serra e ChainçaLeiria, Leiria58.3% · 1,301

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 Hélder Sousa Silva voted

Most recent first

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

Off the group line

9 of 347 comparable votes

Votes in 2026

For 290Abstain 3Against 54Did not vote 17

Alignment with each group

Share of Hélder Sousa Silva's votes that matched each group's position

EPPown group97%
S&D85%
PfE42%
ECR67%
Renew91%
Greens/EFA75%
The Left48%
ESN27%

In Parliament

Country
Portugal
Group
European People's Party (EPP)
National party
PSD

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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