Patricia Gonçalves (politician)

Patricia Gonçalves
Member of the Assembly of the Republic
Assumed office
TBD
ConstituencyLisbon
Personal details
Born
Patrícia Carla Serrano Gonçalves

1971 (age 53–54)
Barreiro, Portugal
Political partyLIVRE
Alma materInstituto Superior Técnico
OccupationAcademic

Patrícia Carla Serrano Gonçalves (born 1971) is a Portuguese physicist, politician and member of the Assembly of the Republic, the national legislature of Portugal. A member of the LIVRE party, she was elected to represent Lisbon at the 2025 legislative election.

Early life

Gonçalves was born in 1971 in Barreiro.[1] She has a degree in technological physics engineering and a doctorate in physics from the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST).[2]

Career

Gonçalves is a professor in IST's Department of Physics and a researcher at the Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particles Physics (LIP).[3][4] She also coordinates a group that develops applications for space exploration in association with the European Space Agency and other European scientific institutes and companies.[2] She is a member of the Association of Scientific Research Scholars (Associação dos Bolseiros de Investigação Científica).[2]

Gonçalves is one of the founders of the Republic and Secularism Association.[2] She joined LIVRE in May 2014.[2] She has served a number of terms on the Contact Group, the party's executive body.[1] She was elected to the Municipal Assembly of Lisbon at the 2017 local elections as a candidate for the Lisbon Needs Everyone (Lisboa Precisa de Todos) list, a coalition between the Socialist Party and LIVRE.[1] She was a candidate for LIVRE at the 2019 European Parliament election but the party failed to win any seats.[5] She was a candidate for LIVRE at the 2019, 2022 and 2024 legislative elections in Lisbon but was not elected.[6][7][8] She was elected to the Assembly of the Republic at the 2025 legislative election.[9][10]

Personal life

Gonçalves has lived in Lisbon since 2003 and has two children.[1]

Electoral history

Electoral history of Patricia Gonçalves
Election Constituency Party Alliance No. Result
2017 local[11] Lisbon Municipal Assembly LIVRE Lisbon Needs Everyone 16 Elected
2019 European[5] Portugal LIVRE 6 Not elected
2019 legislative[6] Lisbon LIVRE 5 Not elected
2022 legislative[7] Lisbon LIVRE 4 Not elected
2024 legislative[8] Lisbon LIVRE 5 Not elected
2025 legislative[9] Lisbon LIVRE 3 Elected

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Patrícia Gonçalves" (in Portuguese). Lisbon, Portugal: LIVRE. Archived from the original on 24 March 2025. Retrieved 24 May 2025.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Patrícia Gonçalves" (in Portuguese). Lisbon, Portugal: LIVRE. Archived from the original on 24 March 2025. Retrieved 24 May 2025.
  3. ^ "Apresentação · Patrícia Serrano Gonçalves" (in Portuguese). Lisbon, Portugal: Instituto Superior Técnico. Archived from the original on 22 March 2025. Retrieved 24 May 2025.
  4. ^ "Patrícia Gonçalves" (in Portuguese). Lisbon, Portugal. Archived from the original on 5 December 2024. Retrieved 24 May 2025.
  5. ^ a b "Eleições europeias 26 maio 2019: Candidatos - L". Eleições: Resultados dos Escrutínios Provisórios (in Portuguese). Lisbon, Portugal: Ministry of Internal Administration. Archived from the original on 12 February 2025. Retrieved 20 May 2025.
  6. ^ a b "Eleições legislativas 2019 6 de outubro: Candidatos - Lisboa - L". Eleições: Resultados dos Escrutínios Provisórios (in Portuguese). Lisbon, Portugal: Ministry of Internal Administration. Archived from the original on 27 January 2024. Retrieved 24 May 2025.
  7. ^ a b "Eleições legislativas 30 de janeiro de 2022: Candidatos - Lisboa - L". Eleições: Resultados dos Escrutínios Provisórios (in Portuguese). Lisbon, Portugal: Ministry of Internal Administration. Archived from the original on 16 January 2024. Retrieved 24 May 2025.
  8. ^ a b "Eleições legislativas 10 de março de 2024: Candidatos - Lisboa - L". Eleições: Resultados dos Escrutínios Provisórios (in Portuguese). Lisbon, Portugal: Ministry of Internal Administration. Archived from the original on 18 April 2025. Retrieved 24 May 2025.
  9. ^ a b "Eleições legislativas 18 de maio de 2025: Candidatos - Porto - L". Eleições: Resultados dos Escrutínios Provisórios (in Portuguese). Lisbon, Portugal: Ministry of Internal Administration. Retrieved 24 May 2025.
  10. ^ Begonha, Ana Bacelar (20 May 2025). "As novas deputadas do Livre: duas professoras de Lisboa e do Porto". Público (in Portuguese). Lisbon, Portugal. Retrieved 24 May 2025.
  11. ^ "Série I - Comissão Nacional de Eleições: Mapa Oficial n.º 1-A/2017 - Mapa oficial dos resultados das eleições gerais para os titulares dos órgãos das autarquias locais de 1 de outubro de 2017" (PDF). Diário da República (in Portuguese). Vol. 2017, no. 231. Lisbon, Portugal. 30 November 2017. pp. 6502-(225). Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 January 2025. Retrieved 24 May 2025 – via National Elections Commission.