Porto District

The [[Districts of Portugal|District]] of '''Porto''' ({{IPA-pt|ˈpoɾtu}}, {{lang-pt|Distrito do Porto}}), sometimes '''Oporto''' in English, is located on the north-west coast of [[Portugal]]. The district capital is the city of [[Porto]], the second largest city in the country. It is bordered by the [[Aveiro (district)|Aveiro]] and [[Viseu (district)|Viseu district]]s to the south, [[Braga (district)|Braga district]] to the north and [[Vila Real (district)|Vila Real district]] to the east. Its area is 2395 km² and its population is 1,781,826. ==Municipalities== The district comprises 18 municipalities: * [[Amarante Municipality, Portugal|Amarante]] [city] * [[Baião Municipality|Baião]] [town] * [[Felgueiras Municipality|Felgueiras]] [city] * [[Gondomar Municipality|Gondomar]] [city] * [[Lousada]] [town] * [[Maia Municipality|Maia]] [city] * [[Marco de Canaveses]] [city] * [[Matosinhos]] [city] * [[Paços de Ferreira]] [city] * [[Paredes Municipality|Paredes]] [city] * [[Penafiel Municipality|Penafiel]] [city] * [[Porto]] [main city] * [[Póvoa de Varzim]] [city] * [[Santo Tirso]] [city] * [[Trofa Municipality|Trofa]] city] * [[Valongo]] [city] * [[Vila do Conde]] [city] * [[Vila Nova de Gaia]] [city], the most populous municipality and the only municipality in Porto District located south of the [[Douro River]]. All of the above Municipalities are Cities, except Baião and Lousada. Some municipalities include one or more cities;the municipality of Paredes has the most cities within its municipality: Paredes, [[Gandra (Paredes)|Gandra]], [[Rebordosa]] and [[São Salvador de Lordelo]]. Other cities in Porto district: [[Rio Tinto (Gondomar)|Rio Tinto]] and [[Valbom]] (in Gondomar municipality), [[Ermesinde]] (in Valongo municipality), [[São Mamede de Infesta]] (in Matosinhos municipality), [[Freamunde]] (in Paços de Ferreira municipality) and [[Lixa]] (in Felgueiras municipality). ==Main Airport== [[Porto Airport]] /Oporto Int.(OPO) [[Sá Carneiro]] ,mostly located in [[Pedras Rubras]], [[Moreira]], [[Maia]], [[Grande Porto]]. ==Summary of votes and seats won 1976-2011== {{electiontable|Summary of election results from Porto district, 1976-2011}}'''Summary of election results from Porto district, 1976-2011''' |- class="unsortable" !rowspan=2|Parties!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S |- class="unsortable" align="center" !colspan=2 | 1976 !colspan=2 | 1979 !colspan=2 | 1980 !colspan=2 | 1983 !colspan=2 | 1985 !colspan=2 | 1987 !colspan=2 | 1991 !colspan=2 | 1995 !colspan=2 | 1999 !colspan=2 | 2002 !colspan=2 | 2005 !colspan=2 | 2009 !colspan=2 | 2011 |- | align="left"| [[Socialist Party (Portugal)|PS]] || style="background:#FF66FF;"|'''40.7''' || style="background:#FF66FF;"|'''18''' || 34.8 || 14 || 34.3 || 14 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|'''43.0''' || style="background:#FF66FF;"|'''18''' || 23.6 || 10 || 26.7 || 11 || 32.9 || 13 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|'''46.7''' || style="background:#FF66FF;"|'''18''' || style="background:#FF66FF;"|'''48.0''' || style="background:#FF66FF;"|'''19''' || style="background:#FF66FF;"|'''41.2''' || style="background:#FF66FF;"|'''17''' || style="background:#FF66FF;"|'''48.5''' || style="background:#FF66FF;"|'''20''' || style="background:#FF66FF;"|'''41.8''' || style="background:#FF66FF;"|'''18''' || 32.0 || 14 |- | align="left"| [[Social Democratic Party (Portugal)|PSD]] || 27.0 || 11 || || || || || 26.2 || 10 || style="background:#FF9900;"|'''29.3''' || style="background:#FF9900;"|'''12''' || style="background:#FF9900;"|'''50.9''' || style="background:#FF9900;"|'''22''' || style="background:#FF9900;"|'''51.3''' || style="background:#FF9900;"|'''21''' || 36.4 || 14 || 32.7 || 13 || 40.0 || 16 || 27.8 || 12 || 29.2 || 12 || style="background:#FF9900;"|'''39.2''' || style="background:#FF9900;"|'''17''' |- | align="left"| [[People's Party (Portugal)|CDS-PP]] || 15.7 || 6 || || || || || 12.5 || 5 || 9.8 || 4 || 4.0 || 1 || 4.1 || 1 || 7.8 || 3 || 7.5 || 3 || 8.4 || 3 || 6.9 || 2 || 9.3 || 4 || 10.0 || 4 |- | align="left"| [[Unitarian Democratic Coalition|PCP/APU/CDU]] || 8.4 || 3 || 14.5 || 6 || 11.9 || 5 || 13.6 || 5 || 12.1 || 5 || 9.4 || 4 || 6.4 || 2 || 6.0 || 2 || 6.2 || 2 || 4.6 || 1 || 5.4 || 2 || 5.7 || 2 || 6.2 || 2 |- | align="left"| [[Left Bloc|BE]] || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || 2.3 || || 2.7 || 1 || 6.7 || 2 || 9.2 || 3 || 5.1 || 2 |- | align="left"| [[Democratic Alliance (Portugal)|AD]] || || || style="background:#00FFFF;"|'''44.5''' || style="background:#00FFFF;"|'''18''' || style="background:#00FFFF;"|'''46.6''' || style="background:#00FFFF;"|'''19''' || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || |- | align="left"| [[Democratic Renovator Party (Portugal)|PRD]] || || || || || || || || || 20.5 || 8 || 4.0 || 1 || || || || || || || || || || || || || || |- |style="background-color:#E9E9E9" colspan=27|Source: [http://eleicoes.cne.pt/sel_eleicoes.cfm?m=vector Comissão Nacional de Eleições] |} {{Municipalities of Porto}} {{Administrative divisions of Portugal}} {{coord missing|Portugal}}