Portugal’s Premier Wins Election, Misses Majority: Exit Polls

Portuguese Prime Minister Luis Montenegro’s center-right coalition won a snap election on Sunday, gaining a few more seats in parliament but still falling short of an absolute majority, exit polls showed.

The AD coalition got between 29% and 34% of the vote, well ahead of the opposition Socialists’ 21% to 26%, according to a poll by the Catholic University for broadcaster RTP. It’s now projected to increase its number of seats in parliament to between 85 and 96, up from 80. While that marks a better performance than last year’s election, it still leaves the ruling coalition far short of the 116 seats required for a majority.