Pedro Filipe Soares

Pedro Filipe Gomes Soares (born 15 February 1979) is a Portuguese mathematician and politician of the Left Bloc.

Born in Castelo de Paiva, Aveiro District, he graduated in Applied Mathematics from the University of Porto, and has a master's degree in remote sensing. In 2001, aged 22, he ran for a city council seat, and four years later he was second on his party's electoral list in the district for the legislative elections.

In 2009, Soares became the first Left Bloc politician elected to the Assembly of the Republic by Aveiro, and was re-elected in 2011. On 6 December 2012, he was voted the party's parliamentary leader. In the 2015 elections, Soares was elected to the Assembly for a third time, this time by Lisbon.

Election history

Castelo de Paiva City Council election, 2001

|- ! colspan="2" | Party ! Candidate ! align="center" style="width: 50px"| Votes ! align="center" style="width: 50px"|% ! align="center" style="width: 50px"|Seats ! align="center" style="width: 50px"|+/− |- | style="background:;"| | align="left"|PSD | align=left |Paulo Teixeira || 6,863 || 59.4 || 4|| ±0 |- | style="background:;"| | align="left"|PS | align=left |Joaquim Quintas || 4,364 || 37.8 || 3 || ±0 |- | style="background:;"| | align="left"| CDU | align=left |– || 79 || 0.7 || 0 || ±0 |- | style="background:;"| | align="left"| BE | align=left |Pedro Filipe Soares || 34 || 0.3 || 0 || new |- | colspan="3" align="left"| Blank/Invalid ballots | 211 || 1.8 || – || – |- style="background-color:#E9E9E9" | colspan="3" align="left"| Turnout | 7,759 || 51.84 || 13 || ±0 |- | colspan="7" align=left|Source: Autárquicas 2001

Left Bloc leadership election, 2014

|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9" ! align="center" colspan=2 style="width: 60px"|Candidate ! align="center" style="width: 50px"|Votes ! align="center" style="width: 50px"|% |- |bgcolor=| | align=left | João Semedo<br/>Catarina Martins | align=right | 266 | align=right | 50.8 |- |bgcolor=| | align=left | Pedro Filipe Soares | align=right | 258 | align=right | 49.2 |- |- style="background-color:#E9E9E9" | colspan=2 style="text-align:left;" | Turnout | align=right | 524 | align=right | |- | colspan="4" align=left|Source: Results

Matosinhos City Council election, 2025

|- ! colspan="2" | Party ! Candidate ! align="center" style="width: 50px"| Votes ! align="center" style="width: 50px"|% ! align="center" style="width: 50px"|Seats ! align="center" style="width: 50px"|+/− |- | style="background:;"| | align="left"|PS | align=left |Luísa Salgueiro || 37,266 || 44.9 || 7 || style="color:red;"| –1 |- | style="background:;"| | align="left"|PSD/CDS | align=left |Bruno Pereira || 20,272 || 24.4 || 3|| style="color:green;"| +1 |- | style="background:;"| | align="left"| CH | align=left |António Parada || 11,472 || 13.8 || 2 || style="color:green;"| +2 |- | style="background:;"| | align="left"| IL | align=left |Filipe Garcia || 3,754 || 4.5 || 0 || ±0 |- | style="background:;"| | align="left"| CDU | align=left |José Pedro Rodrigues || 3,366 || 4.1 || 0 || style="color:red;"| –1 |- | style="background:;"| | align="left"| LIVRE | align=left |Diana Sá || 2,070 || 2.5 || 0 || new |- | style="background:;"| | align="left"| BE | align=left |Pedro Filipe Soares || 1,282 || 1.5 || 0 || ±0 |- | style="background:;"| | align="left"| PAN | align=left |Hugo Alexandre Trindade || 915 || 1.1 || 0 || ±0 |- | style="background:;"| | align="left"| ADN | align=left |Vasco Martins || 311 || 0.4 || 0 || new |- | colspan="3" align="left"| Blank/Invalid ballots | 2,345 || 2.8 || – || – |- style="background-color:#E9E9E9" | colspan="3" align="left"| Turnout | 83,053 || 55.45 || 11 || ±0 |- | colspan="7" align=left|Source: Autárquicas 2025

References

External links

• Profile at Left Bloc parliamentary party website