Local elections ("autárquicas") were held in Portugal on 12 October 2025, and Arquivo.pt compiled a special collection of electoral content published on the web, resulting in 3.5 terabytes of information for research and academic work. 440 search terms were used to obtain 43,000 page addresses, along with the websites of parishes, municipalities, and political parties. […]
Arquivo.pt made special collections on the three elections that took place this year: the Parlamentary elections on 10 March, the elections in Madeira island on 26 May and the European elections on 9 June. More than 70,000 pages with content related to the elections and political life in Portugal and Europe were identified and around […]
Share this page: arquivo.pt/onlinecafe Welcome to the third season of the Online Cafe with Arquivo.pt Talk directly to the Arquivo.pt team and get answers to all your questions! The Arquivo.pt launched a new cycle of team chats with you through online sessions. Brief introductory presentations will be given, leaving time to ask all your questions […]
Thousands of pages about the elections to preserve before they disappear On 26 September 2021 the local elections were held in Portugal, an event marked by the Covid-19 pandemic. The communication of the candidates was mainly based on the media and publications through the Web. Electoral websites are of manifest historical importance. However, they are […]
Print from an archived page on Arquivo.pt: https://www.european-elections.eu The special collection of web pages about the 2019 European Elections is available for search at Arquivo.pt. To compile this collection, pages written in 24 European languages were identified through automatic searches on the Bing search engine and suggestions from 17 European countries. We emphasize the collaboration […]
Arquivo.pt performed 2 web crawls of information related with the Portuguese Local Elections of 2017. We appealed the community to contribute with suggestions of relevant Web pages so that we could preserve them. The 2 crawls occurred during and after the campaign period, using the list of 410 Web pages suggested by the community and […]
We have been emphasizing during our presentations that Arquivo.pt requires YOUR collaboration to preserve information published on the Web related to Elections. Campaign websites are historically relevant. However, they are difficult to identify because they appear and disappear quickly. Moreover, they are often exclusively referenced through printed media (e.g. posters). That's why your collaboration is […]
The Arquivo.pt made 4 crawls of Web pages related with the Portuguese Parliamentary Elections of 2015. We had appealed to the community contribution by suggesting Web pages related with the Parliamentary Elections of 2015 in order to archive it. We made 4 crawls, during and after the election campaign period, using the list of 127 […]