The District of Santarém ( ) is a district of Portugal, located in Portugal's Centro Region. The district capital is the city of Santarém.
The district is the 3rd largest in Portugal, with an area of , and a population of 475,344 inhabitants, giving it a population density of 70 people per sq. kilometer (180 people per sq. mile).
Municipalities
The district includes the following 21 municipalities.
Abrantes
Alcanena
Almeirim
Alpiarça
Benavente
Cartaxo
Chamusca
Constância
Coruche
Entroncamento
Ferreira do Zêzere
Golegã
Mação
Ourém
Rio Maior
Salvaterra de Magos
Santarém
Sardoal
Tomar
Torres Novas
Vila Nova da Barquinha
Summary of votes and seats won 1976–2022
|- class="unsortable" !rowspan=2|Parties!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S |- class="unsortable" align="center" !colspan=2 | 1976 !colspan=2 | 1979 !colspan=2 | 1980 !colspan=2 | 1983 !colspan=2 | 1985 !colspan=2 | 1987 !colspan=2 | 1991 !colspan=2 | 1995 !colspan=2 | 1999 !colspan=2 | 2002 !colspan=2 | 2005 !colspan=2 | 2009 !colspan=2 | 2011 !colspan=2 | 2015 !colspan=2 | 2019 !colspan=2 | 2022 |- | align="left"| PS || style="background:#FF66FF;"|38.4 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|6 || 27.3 || 3 ||30.4 || 4 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|38.4 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|5 || 18.6 || 2 || 21.7 || 3 || 29.4 || 3 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|45.8 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|5 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|45.5 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|5 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|38.4 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|4 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|46.1 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|6 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|33.7 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|4 || 25.9 || 3 || 32.9 || 3 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|37.1 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|4 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|41.2 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|5 |- | align="left"| PSD || 19.5 || 3 || colspan=4 rowspan=2 align=center| In AD || 24.7 || 3 || style="background:#FF9900;"|27.8 || style="background:#FF9900;"|4 || style="background:#FF9900;"|47.9 || style="background:#FF9900;"|7 || style="background:#FF9900;"|49.1 || style="background:#FF9900;"|6 || 31.0 || 3 || 30.2|| 3 || 38.1 || 4 || 26.4 || 3 || 27.0 || 3 || style="background:#FF9900;"|37.6 || style="background:#FF9900;"|5 || colspan=2 rowspan=2 align=center| In PàF || 25.2 || 3 || 26.9 || 3 |- | align="left"| CDS-PP || 13.9 || 2 || 10.0 || 1 || 7.7 || 1 || 3.6 || || 3.3 || || 8.7 || 1 || 8.1 || 1 || 8.4 || 1 || 6.9 || || 11.2 || 1 || 12.3 || 1 || 4.7 || || 1.9 || |- | align="left"| PCP/APU/CDU || 16.1 || 2 || 21.7|| 3 || 19.0 || 2 || 20.0 || 3 || 16.4 || 2 || 12.6 || 1 || 9.8 || 1 || 9.5 || 1 || 10.1 || 1 || 8.6 || 1 || 8.6 || 1 || 9.2 || 1 || 9.0 || 1 || 9.6 || 1 || 7.6 || 1 || 5.4 || |- | align="left"| AD || colspan=2| || style="background:#00FFFF;"|41.0 || style="background:#00FFFF;"|6 || style="background:#00FFFF;"|42.1 || style="background:#00FFFF;"|6 || colspan=26| |- | align="left"| PRD || colspan=8| || 23.8 || 3 || 7.3 || 1 || 1.0 || || colspan=18| |- | align="left"| BE || colspan=16| || 2.0 || || 2.8 || || 6.5 || || 11.8 || 1 || 5.8 || || 10.8 || 1 || 10.2 || 1 || 4.6 || |- | align="left"| PàF || colspan=26| || style="background:#00AAAA;"|35.8 || style="background:#00AAAA;"|4 || colspan=4| |- | align="left"| CHEGA || colspan=28| || 2.0 || || 10.9 || 1 |- ! align="left"| Total seats || colspan=2|13 || colspan=10|12 || colspan=14|10 || colspan=6|9 |- ! colspan=33| Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições |}
Archeology
The village of Almonda, within the civil parish of Zibreira, is noted for the Aroeira cave, where the 400,000 year old Aroeira 3 skull of a Homo Heidelbergensis was discovered in 2014. It is the oldest trace of human habitation in Portugal.