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João Oliveira

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

87%participation, 316 of 364 votesMedian: The Left 87% · Portugal 90% · all MEPs 89%
69%of votes matched the position of The Left
38%of For and Against votes on the winning side
98votes off the group line, of 313 comparable

Details

How they were elected

List
CDU, Coligação Democrática Unitária (PCP-PEV)162,630 votes, 4.2%, 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 CDU, Coligação Democrática Unitária (PCP-PEV) 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: 161,804 votes, 4.2% of valid votes. The 965 votes cast abroad have no parish and are not on the map.

0.0% to 0.9%0.9% to 1.5%1.5% to 2.3%2.3% to 4.1%4.1% to 44.1%% of valid votes

Strongest areas (at least 1,000 valid votes)

  • União das freguesias de Vila Nova de São Bento e Vale de VargoSerpa, Beja35.1% · 472
  • CouçoCoruche, Santarém34.1% · 382
  • União das freguesias de Aljustrel e Rio de MoinhosAljustrel, Beja28.7% · 573
  • União das freguesias de Nossa Senhora da Vila, Nossa Senhora do Bispo e SilveirasMontemor-o-Novo, Évora21.9% · 930
  • AlpiarçaAlpiarça, Santarém21.0% · 522

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 João Oliveira voted

Most recent first

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

Off the group line

98 of 313 comparable votes

Votes in 2026

For 110Abstain 53Against 153Did not vote 48

Alignment with each group

Share of João Oliveira's votes that matched each group's position

EPP26%
S&D39%
PfE44%
ECR33%
Renew33%
Greens/EFA46%
The Leftown group69%
ESN46%

In Parliament

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

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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