The AD, which brings together the PSD, CDS-PP and PPM, did not go beyond a tangential victory, with 29.5% and 79 deputies, two more than the PS, but when the four mandates of the emigration circles still need to be awarded.

Despite the victory, the coalition led by Luís Montenegro had one of the worst results in the history of PSD and CDS coalitions. It was only worse in the previous election, in which the PSD was led by Rui Rio and obtained 29.1% and 77 deputies and Francisco Rodrigues dos Santos' CDS did not reach more than 1.6%, leaving it without parliamentary representation.

The far-right party, Chega, surpassed the most optimistic predictions, winning more than one million votes and 18.06%, quadrupling its parliamentary group, which goes from 12 to 48 of the 230 deputies of the Assembly of the Republic.

On the left, Livre was another of the winners on election night, going from one to four deputies, with 3.2% and almost 200 thousand votes.

The PS was the big loser of the night, not only because it lost the elections and the absolute majority in 2022, but it also recorded one of the worst results in its history. Only in 1987 and 1991, with Cavaco Silva's absolute majorities, and in 2011, when José Sócrates' PS was already preparing the entry of the 'troika' to guarantee mandatory foreign aid to overcome the financial crisis, did the socialists have inferior results.

The first-time leaders had poor results. Luís Montenegro (AD) won but without a break. Pedro Nuno Santos, from PS, lost. Rui Rocha, from the Liberal Initiative, and Mariana Mortágua, from the Bloco de Esquerda, repeated the results of 2022, with eight and five mandates, respectively. And Paulo Raimundo, who led the PCP coalition with the PEV, lost two deputies, leaving him now with four representatives in parliament.

In a well-attended election, with abstention falling sharply to 33.7%, repeaters André Ventura (Chega) and Rui Tavares (Livre) were the big winners, managing to quadruple their representation in parliament. Inês Sousa Real, from People-Animais-Natureza, remained the party's only deputy in parliament.

The electoral result from Sunday's elections contributes little or nothing to governance in Portugal. In fact, it would be difficult to imagine a more difficult 'puzzle' to provide stability, despite the two majority parties continuing to hold more than two-thirds of the seats in Parliament. The left is a minority and on the right, any majority will always have to be formed with the contribution of the extreme right.

André Ventura warned that Chega wanted to be "the centerpiece of the political system" and tried to put pressure on the AD leader, who after an electoral campaign saying "no" to any agreement with the extreme right, immediately expressed his "founded expectation" that the President of the Republic will nominate him as Prime Minister, without opening the game about what governance solutions he will seek.

The socialist leader accepted defeat, even though he still had an arithmetic possibility of winning more mandates than the AD after counting the emigration votes, he stated that now is the time for the PS to “lead the opposition.

Still marking the election was the percentage achieved by the ADN (National Democratic Alternative) party, which with 1.6% and more than 100 thousand votes was very close to reaching a deputy in parliament, leading some political leaders to suggest that this surprising result was due to the confusion of many voters between his party and that of AD.