2021 Portuguese presidential election

Presidential elections were held in Portugal on 24 January 2021. The incumbent President, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, was reelected for a second term.

The elections were held during the COVID-19 pandemic, and Portugal was under a lockdown as of election day. President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa was reelected by a landslide, winning 60.7 percent of the votes. He won every district in the country and all 308 municipalities, a result which happened for the first time ever in Portuguese democracy; he won 3,083 parishes out of 3,092. The election also marked the rise of right-wing candidate André Ventura, leader of CHEGA, who polled 3rd with almost 12 percent of the votes. In second place, former MEP and Ambassador Ana Gomes was able to win 13 percent of the votes, the best result ever for a female candidate in a presidential election. As in the 2016 elections, the Socialist Party (PS) did not officially endorse any candidate, despite Ana Gomes being a PS member. The rest of candidates did not receive above 5 percent each.

Voter turnout fell to 39 percent, a drop of nine percentage points, mainly due to the automatic registration of overseas voters; this practice increased the number of registered voters to almost 11 million. In Portugal alone, turnout stood at 45.45 percent, a decrease of 4.6 percentage points compared to 2016. This was the lowest drop in turnout in an election with an incumbent running since 1980.