Presidential election in Brazil 1902

Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, President

Silviano Brandão, Vice President

The presidential election in Brazil in 1902 took place on March 1, 1902. The result of the election was a victory for Rodrigues Alves ( Partido Republicano Paulista ). He received 91.7% of the vote and became the fifth president of the state.

It was the fourth presidential election and far from being a popular election at the beginning of the Old Republic. Of around 18,400,000 estimated residents, only 1,286,000 residents were entitled to vote, in fact only 660,000 took part. The election took place only in the federal capital and in the state capitals.

The elites, the military and the money nobility made the choice among themselves. The agrarian elites anchored their supremacy in the Brazilian constitution of 1891, in the form of liberal, but practically oligarchic. The presidential election is very briefly regulated in Chapter II, Article 47 of the Constitution. Until the end of the Old Republic, the Partido Republicano Mineiro (PRM) and the Partido Republicano Paulista (PRP) alternated in power.

Candidates could apply individually for the office of President and Vice-President, as in the case of Júlio de Castilhos. There were 122 presidential and 139 vice-presidential candidates.

Results

Candidate president	Be right*	%
Rodrigues Alves	592.039
Quintino Bocauiuva	42,542
Ubaldino Fontoura
Júlio de Castilhos	1,343
Severino dos Santos Vieira	903
Write-in Candidates (117)
total	645,531
Invalid votes / blank ballot papers	14,273
total	660,000

• Information is unreliable

Candidate Vice President	Be right*	%
Francisco Silviano de Almeida Brandão	563.734
Justo Leite Chermont	59,887
Cândido Barata Ribeiro	1,791
Júlio de Castilhos	884
Lauro Sodré	638
Write-in Candidates (134)
total	641.845
Invalid votes / blank ballot papers	18,155
total	660,000

• Information is unreliable

literature

• Aloildo Gomes Pires: Eleições presidenciais na primeira república. Uma abordagem estatística. Salvador 1995.
• Presidentes do Brasil (de Deodoro a FHC). Rio de Janeiro 2002.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Boulívar Lamounier, Octavio Amorim Neto: Brazil . In: Dieter Nohlen (Ed.): Elections in the Americas. A data handbook. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2005, Volume 2, pp. 173, 229, ISBN 0-19-925358-7 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
2. ^ Nohlen, p. 229.
3. ↑ Constituição de 1891. In: coladaweb.com. Retrieved May 29, 2020 . 
4. ^ Text in the Portuguese Wikisource . Retrieved May 29, 2020.