Socialists get another run in Portugal

But Prime Minister Costa faces task of finding allies after election victory

LISBON - Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa's Socialists won a general election marked by low turnout on Sunday after presiding over solid economic growth following years of austerity.

The Socialist Party, or PS, took 36.65 percent of the vote, followed by the center-right Social Democrats, or PSD, with 27.9 percent, according to near complete results from the Interior Ministry.