Elections in Brazil 2010
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| Presidential election in Brazil | ||
| October 3, 2010 (first ballot) | ||
| October 31, 2010 (second ballot) | ||
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Workers' Party | |
| Dilma Rousseff | ||
| be right | 55,752,529 | |
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56.05% | |
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Brazilian Social Democratic Party | |
| José Serra | ||
| be right | 43,711,388 | |
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43.95% | |
| Majority distribution at state level | ||
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| President of the Federal Republic of Brazil | ||
The 2010 elections in Brazil took place on October 3, 2010, the necessary run-off elections for the presidency and governor on October 31. Eligible voters were called upon to redefine the president , two-thirds of the Senate, the House of Representatives, the governors and the state houses of representatives. Most international attention was paid to the election of the president, in which a successor had to be determined for Lula da Silva ( PT ), who according to the constitution of the country was no longer allowed to run after two terms in office. Dilma Rousseff from PT prevailed in the runoff election .
Presidential election
The president is directly elected by the Brazilian people; his term of office is four years (January 1, 2011 to December 31, 2014). In the first ballot, those who achieve an absolute majority of the valid votes are elected. Since none of the candidates succeeded in this, a runoff election took place on October 31, 2010 between the two candidates with the most votes.
The 2010 presidential election was the first direct election of a Brazilian president since the military dictatorship in which Lula da Silva was not a candidate. He was not allowed to run for president again after two consecutive terms.
Candidates
The Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) of incumbent President Lula nominated Dilma Rousseff (mostly just called Dilma), who was largely unknown until her nomination (see graph). She was Lula's preferred candidate. Their campaign was aimed at promising a continuation of popular Lula's politics. Dilma was the favorite immediately before the election, with a result of just under 50 percent being forecast. During the election campaign, she and Lula were accused of nepotism and abuse of office by the opposition. Dilma's candidacy was supported by nine other parties. The candidate for the vice-presidency under Dilma, Michel Temer , was nominated by the Partido do Movimento Democrático Brasileiro (PMDB).
For the largest opposition party Partido da Social Democracia Brasileira (PSDB), the former governor of São Paulo José Serra took office. During the election campaign, he indicated that he was primarily interested in the post of Minister of Health, a post he had already held from 1998 to 2002. Serra was supported by five other parties. His candidate for the vice presidency was Indio da Costa of the Democratas .
Marina Silva , who resigned from the Lula government in 2008 as Environment Minister , competed for the green Partido Verde . At the beginning of the campaign, she was given outsider opportunities, as she was briefly on a par with Dilma in surveys. During the election campaign, she emerged with objective argumentation, but had a difficult time. Shortly before the election, she was forecast to be about 15 percent; she was considered to "tip the scales" with a view to a possible runoff election. Marina Silva did not run in an electoral alliance, her candidate for the vice-presidency was Guilherme Leal.
Six other candidates who were considered hopeless competed.
Election result
In the first ballot, Dilma received 46.9 percent of the valid votes, Serra 32.6 percent and Silva 19.3 percent. The other six candidates together received a good 1 percent of the vote. The turnout was 81.9 percent (with compulsory voting).
In the second ballot, after counting a good 99 percent of the votes, Dilma received 56 percent of the valid votes, Serra 44. The turnout was around 78 percent. Dilma Rousseff has thus been elected President of Brazil and Michel Temer has been elected Vice President.
| candidate | Political party | First ballot | Second ballot | ||||
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| be right | Percent valid votes | Percent of eligible voters | be right | Percent valid votes | Percent of eligible voters | ||
| Eligible voters | 135,804,433 | 100.0 | 135,804,433 | 100.0 | |||
| votes cast | 111.193.747 | 81.9 | 106.606.214 | 78.5 | |||
| Dilma Rousseff | PT (among others) | 47,651,434 | 46.9 | 35.1 | 55,752,529 | 56.1 | 41.1 |
| José Serra | PSDB (among others) | 33.132.283 | 32.6 | 24.4 | 43,711,388 | 43.9 | 32.2 |
| Marina Silva | PV | 19,636,359 | 19.3 | 14.5 | |||
| Plínio de Arruda Sampaio | PSOL | 886.816 | 0.9 | 0.7 | |||
| José Maria Eymael | PSDC | 89,350 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |||
| José (Zé) Maria de Almeida | PSTU | 84,609 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |||
| Levy Fidelix | PRTB | 57,960 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |||
| Ivan Pinheiro | PCB | 39,136 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||
| Rui Costa Pimenta | PCO | 12.206 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||
| Blank ballot papers | 6,124,254 | 4.5 | 4,689,428 | 3.5 | |||
| Invalid ballot | 3,479,340 | 2.6 | 2,452,597 | 1.8 | |||
Election of the Senate
When the Senate was elected, 54 of the 81 members had to be re-elected for a term of eight years. The other 27 members were elected in 2006 and will remain in office until 2015 (2014 election). Two people were to be elected in each of the 26 states and in the Federal District. Each voter had two votes; the two candidates with the most votes were elected.
The mandates in the Senate are distributed among the parties as follows. In the presidential election, parties highlighted in red belonged to the electoral alliance around Dilma Rousseff and the PT, parties highlighted in blue belonged to the alliance between José Serra and the PSDB; for the Senate elections themselves, however, these parties ran partly independently or in different electoral alliances.
| Political party | won seats | seats not to be chosen | Total seats | change |
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Democratas (DEM) 2006: Partido da Frente Liberal (PFL) |
2 | 5 | 7th | −6 |
| Partido Comunista do Brasil (PCdoB) | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 |
| Partido da Mobilização Nacional (PMN) | 1 | 1 | +1 | |
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Partido da República (PR) 2006: Partido Liberal (PL) and Partido de Reedificação da Ordem Nacional (PRONA) |
3 | 1 | 4th | ± 0 |
| Partido da Social Democracia Brasileira (PSDB) | 5 | 6th | 11 | −5 |
| Partido Democrático Trabalhista (PDT) | 2 | 2 | 4th | −2 |
| Partido do Movimento Democrático Brasileiro (PMDB) | 16 | 3 | 19th | +2 |
| Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) | 11 | 2 | 13 | +5 |
| Partido Popular Socialista (PPS) | 1 | 1 | +1 | |
| Partido Progressista (PP) | 4th | 1 | 5 | +4 |
| Partido Republicano Brasileiro (PRB) | 1 | 1 | −1 | |
| Partido Social Cristão (PSC) | 1 | 1 | ± 0 | |
| Partido Socialismo e Liberdade (PSOL) | 2 | 2 | +1 | |
| Partido Socialista Brasileiro (PSB) | 3 | 1 | 4th | +2 |
| Partido Trabalhista Brasileiro (PTB) | 1 | 5 | 6th | −1 |
| Partido Verde (PV) | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 |
Election of the Chamber of Deputies
The 513 members of the Câmara dos Deputados were elected in separate numbers in the states and the Distrito Federal . The number of representatives to be elected in the individual states depends on the size of the population, although small states are overrepresented and large states are underrepresented. In Roraima, for example, there are 33,950 eligible voters for every MP , and in São Paulo there are 432,710.
The mandates are distributed among the parties as follows. Only the parties that have won seats are listed. The change in the number of mandates relates to the 2006 election result, not to the status immediately before the election, which deviated from it due to a change of parliamentary group. In the presidential election, parties highlighted in red belonged to the electoral alliance around Dilma Rousseff and the PT, parties highlighted in blue belonged to the alliance between José Serra and the PSDB; for the elections to the Chamber of Deputies themselves, however, these parties ran partly independently or in different electoral alliances.
Individual evidence
- ↑ DerStandard.at: Lula's controversial successor favorite
- ↑ a b tagesschau.de: Good chances for Lula's girls ( Memento from October 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b c Die Welt: Lula's placeholder is supposed to secure power in Brazil
- ↑ taz.de: Attack of the renegades
- ^ Tribunal Superior Eleitoral: Eleições 2010; Divulgação de Resultados ( Memento of October 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Compiled from http://divulgacao.tse.gov.br/ ( Memento from October 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) ; Mandates not to be selected and changes after - ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Own calculation based on http://divulgacao.tse.gov.br/ ( Memento from October 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Compiled from http://divulgacao.tse.gov.br/ ( Memento from October 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) ; Change from 2006 after elections in Brazil in 2006
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