2018 Brazilian general election

General elections were held in Brazil on 7 October 2018 to elect the President and Vice President and other political figures in the nation.

2018 Brazilian general election
7 October 2018 (2018-10-07) (first round)
28 October 2018 (2018-10-28) (second round)
Opinion polls
Turnout79.67% (first round)
78.7% (second round)[1]
Presidential election
 
Candidate Jair Bolsonaro Fernando Haddad[lower-alpha 1]
Party PSL PT
Alliance Brazil Above Everything, God Above Everyone The People Happy Again
Home state Rio de Janeiro[lower-alpha 2] São Paulo
Running mate Hamilton Mourão Manuela d'Ávila
States carried 15 + DF 11
Popular vote 57,797,847 47,040,906
Percentage 55.13% 44.87%
Map of results for each State and the Federal District.
President before election

Michel Temer
MDB

 Elected President

Jair Bolsonaro
PSL

Parliamentary election
Party Leader % Seats ±
Chamber of Deputies
PSL Eduardo Bolsonaro 11.7% 52
PT Paulo Pimenta 10.3% 56
PSDB Carlos Sampaio 6.0% 29
PSD Domingos Neto 5.8% 34
PP Arthur Lira 5.6% 38
PMDB Baleia Rossi 5.5% 34
PSB Tadeu Alencar 5.5% 32
PR José Rocha 5.3% 33
PRB Jhonatan de Jesus 5.1% 30
DEM Elmar Nascimento 4.7% 29
PDT André Figueiredo 4.6% 28
Federal Senate
PT Lindbergh Farias 14.5% 6
PSDB Paulo Bauer 11.9% 8
PMDB Simone Tebet 7.5% 12
DEM Ronaldo Caiado 5.4% 6
PSD Omar Aziz 4.8% 7
PP Ana Amélia Lemos 4.4% 6
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Second round results
First round results

The first round of the presidential election was held on 7 October 2018. Jair Bolsonaro won 46% of the vote with Fernando Haddad winning 29.3%. Since no candidate won more than 50% of the vote, a second round was held on 28 October 2018 with Bolsonaro being elected president.

Background

The 2014 elections Dilma Rousseff re-elected as president in the second round with 51.6% of the vote.[3]

However, on 3 December 2015, impeachment process against Rousseff were officially accepted by the Chamber of Deputies.[4] Vice President Michel Temer, of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, became Acting President of Brazil.[5][6] On 31 August 2016, the Senate voted 61–20 in favor of impeachment, finding Rousseff guilty of breaking budgetary laws and removing her from office.[7][8] Vice President Temer replaced Rousseff as the 37th President of Brazil.

Suspensions

Even though current President Temer said he would not run, he received an eight-year ban from holding office on 2 June 2016 for violating election laws.[9]

Former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said he would run for the presidency again, but was arrested for money laundering and found guilty. On August 1, 2018, the Higher Electoral Court Minister, Luiz Fux, confirmed the decision that the former president Lula is ineligible to run for elections in 2018.[10]

Candidates

Second round

The following candidates advanced to the second round as they were placed in the top two candidates following the voting:

Defeated in first round

The following candidates were eliminated in the first round of the election as they were placed third or lower in the final votes:

Opinion polling

First round
  • Polling from 2015 until the day of the election
    Polling from 2015 until the day of the election

Second round
  • Graph showing 5 poll average trend lines of Brazilian opinion polls for the second round Fernando Haddad (PT) and Bolsonaro (PSL) from April 2018 to the most recent one
    Graph showing 5 poll average trend lines of Brazilian opinion polls for the second round Fernando Haddad (PT) and Bolsonaro (PSL) from April 2018 to the most recent one

Results

Second round
Candidate Party Running mate Party Votes %
Jair BolsonaroPSLHamilton MourãoPRTB53,967,34455.6
Fernando HaddadPTManuela d'ÁvilaPCdoB43,047,62844.4

First round
Candidate Party Running mate Party Votes %
Jair BolsonaroSocial Liberal PartyHamilton MourãoBrazilian Labour Renewal Party49,184,240 46.1
Fernando HaddadWorkers' PartyManuela d'ÁvilaCommunist Party of Brazil31,058,82829.1
Ciro GomesDemocratic Labor PartyKátia AbreuDemocratic Labor Party13,311,64212.5
Geraldo AlckminBrazilian Social Democracy PartyAna AméliaProgressistas5,083,4454.8
João AmoêdoNew PartyChristian LohbauerNew Party2,676,8402.5
Cabo DacioloPatriotaSuelene BalduinoPatriota1,343,9441.3
Henrique MeirellesBrazilian Democratic MovementGermano RigottoBrazilian Democratic Movement1,284,7961.2
Marina SilvaSustainability NetworkEduardo JorgeGreen Party1,066,8931.0
Álvaro DiasPodemosPaulo Rabello de CastroSocial Christian Party858,6930.8
Guilherme BoulosSocialism and Liberty PartySônia GuajajaraSocialism and Liberty Party615,9240.6
Vera LúciaUnited Socialist Workers' PartyHertz DiasUnited Socialist Workers' Party55,6200.1
José Maria EymaelChristian DemocracyHélvio CostaChristian Democracy41,6150.1
João Vicente GoulartFree Homeland PartyLéo DiasFree Homeland Party30,0810.1
Invalid/blank votesN/A–
Total106,612,561100
Registered voters/turnout
Source: TSE via Reuters

Notes
  1. The original candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was barred from running by the Superior Electoral Court on 31 August 2018, in accordance with the Clean Slate law.[2]
  2. Born in São Paulo, electoral based in Rio de Janeiro
  3. Temer regardless said he had no plans to run

References
  1. "Disclosure of Election Results". Superior Electoral Court. Retrieved 29 October 2018.
  2. News, ABC. "International News: Latest Headlines, Video and Photographs from Around the World -- People, Places, Crisis, Conflict, Culture, Change, Analysis and Trends". ABC News. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  3. Brazil keen to open trade talks with UK Financial Times, 22 July 2016
  4. Jonathan Watts. "Brazil opens impeachment proceedings against president Dilma Rousseff". The Guardian.
  5. "Brazil's Senate Votes to Impeach President Dilma Rousseff". NBC News. 12 May 2016. Retrieved 12 May 2016.
  6. "Afastada, Dilma mantém salário, Alvorada, avião e assessores". Congresso em Foco (in Portuguese).
  7. CNN, Catherine E. Shoichet and Euan McKirdy. "Brazil's Senate ousts Rousseff in impeachment vote". CNN. Retrieved 31 August 2016. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  8. "Brazil President Dilma Rousseff removed from office by Senate". BBC News. September 1, 2016. Retrieved September 1, 2016.
  9. Greenwald, Glenn (3 June 2016). "Credibility of Brazil's Interim President Collapses as He Receives 8-Year Ban on Running for Office". The Intercept. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
  10. Oliveira, Mariana (2018-08-01). "Ministro Luiz Fux afirma em decisão que Lula é inelegível". G1. Retrieved 2018-08-02.

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