2018 Brazilian general election

2018 Brazilian general election
	Opinion polls
Turnout	79.67% (first round); 78.7% (second round)
	Presidential election
	Map of results for each State and the Federal District.
President before election; Michel Temer; MDB	Elected President ; Jair Bolsonaro; PSL
	Parliamentary election
Chamber of Deputies
Federal Senate

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

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]

President
Michel Temer (MDB)
from São Paulo
Declared ineligible on 2 June 2018^[c]
Former President
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT)
from São Paulo
Declared ineligible on 1 August 2018

Candidates

Second round

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

Jair Bolsonaro
(PSL)
from Rio de Janeiro
Fernando Haddad
(PT)
from São Paulo

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:

Geraldo Alckmin
(PSDB)
from São Paulo
João Amoêdo
(NOVO)
from Rio de Janeiro
Guilherme Boulos
(PSOL)
from São Paulo
Cabo Daciolo
(PATRI)
from Santa Catarina
Álvaro Dias
(PODE)
from Paraná
José Maria Eymael
(DC)
from Rio Grande do Sul
Ciro Gomes
(PDT)
from Ceará
Henrique Meirelles
(MDB)
from Goiás
Marina Silva
(REDE)
from Acre
Vera Lúcia
(PSTU)
from Pernambuco
João Goulart Filho
(PPL)
from Rio de Janeiro

Opinion polling

First round

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

Results

Second round

Candidate		Party	Running mate	Party	Votes	%
	Jair Bolsonaro	PSL	Hamilton Mourão	PRTB	53,967,344	55.6
	Fernando Haddad	PT	Manuela d'Ávila	PCdoB	43,047,628	44.4

First round

Candidate		Party	Running mate	Party	Votes	%
	Jair Bolsonaro	Social Liberal Party	Hamilton Mourão	Brazilian Labour Renewal Party	49,184,240	46.1
	Fernando Haddad	Workers' Party	Manuela d'Ávila	Communist Party of Brazil	31,058,828	29.1
	Ciro Gomes	Democratic Labor Party	Kátia Abreu	Democratic Labor Party	13,311,642	12.5
	Geraldo Alckmin	Brazilian Social Democracy Party	Ana Amélia	Progressistas	5,083,445	4.8
	João Amoêdo	New Party	Christian Lohbauer	New Party	2,676,840	2.5
	Cabo Daciolo	Patriota	Suelene Balduino	Patriota	1,343,944	1.3
	Henrique Meirelles	Brazilian Democratic Movement	Germano Rigotto	Brazilian Democratic Movement	1,284,796	1.2
	Marina Silva	Sustainability Network	Eduardo Jorge	Green Party	1,066,893	1.0
	Álvaro Dias	Podemos	Paulo Rabello de Castro	Social Christian Party	858,693	0.8
	Guilherme Boulos	Socialism and Liberty Party	Sônia Guajajara	Socialism and Liberty Party	615,924	0.6
	Vera Lúcia	United Socialist Workers' Party	Hertz Dias	United Socialist Workers' Party	55,620	0.1
	José Maria Eymael	Christian Democracy	Hélvio Costa	Christian Democracy	41,615	0.1
	João Vicente Goulart	Free Homeland Party	Léo Dias	Free Homeland Party	30,081	0.1
Invalid/blank votes					N/A	–
Total					106,612,561	100
Registered voters/turnout
Source: TSE via Reuters

Notes

↑ 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]
↑ Born in São Paulo, electoral based in Rio de Janeiro
↑ Temer regardless said he had no plans to run

References

↑ "Disclosure of Election Results". Superior Electoral Court. Retrieved 29 October 2018.
↑ 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)
↑ Brazil keen to open trade talks with UK Financial Times, 22 July 2016
↑ Jonathan Watts. "Brazil opens impeachment proceedings against president Dilma Rousseff". The Guardian.
↑ "Brazil's Senate Votes to Impeach President Dilma Rousseff". NBC News. 12 May 2016. Retrieved 12 May 2016.
↑ "Afastada, Dilma mantém salário, Alvorada, avião e assessores". Congresso em Foco (in Portuguese).
↑ 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)
↑ "Brazil President Dilma Rousseff removed from office by Senate". BBC News. September 1, 2016. Retrieved September 1, 2016.
↑ 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.
↑ Oliveira, Mariana (2018-08-01). "Ministro Luiz Fux afirma em decisão que Lula é inelegível". G1. Retrieved 2018-08-02.

Other websites

Geraldo Alckmin (PSDB, DEM, PP, PR, PRB, SD, PTB, PSD, PPS) para Presidente Archived 2018-10-09 at the Wayback Machine
João Amoêdo (NOVO) para Presidente Archived 2019-05-28 at the Wayback Machine
Jair Bolsonaro (PSL, PRTB) para Presidente Archived 2018-10-31 at the Wayback Machine
Guilhemere Boulous (PSOL, PCB) para Presidente Archived 2018-10-13 at the Wayback Machine
Alvaro Dias (PODE, PSC, PTC, PRP) para Presidente
Ciro Gomes (PDT, AVANTE) para Presidente Archived 2018-08-12 at the Wayback Machine
Vera Lúcia (PSTU) para Presidente Archived 2018-10-02 at the Wayback Machine
Henrique Meirelles (MDB, PHS) para Presidente Archived 2002-10-12 at the Wayback Machine
Marina Silva (REDE, PV) para Presidente Archived 2019-10-01 at the Wayback Machine

[3] 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]

[4] Born in São Paulo, electoral based in Rio de Janeiro

[13] Temer regardless said he had no plans to run

[1] "Disclosure of Election Results". Superior Electoral Court. Retrieved 29 October 2018.

[ABC2018-8-31-2] 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)

[5] Brazil keen to open trade talks with UK Financial Times, 22 July 2016

[6] Jonathan Watts. "Brazil opens impeachment proceedings against president Dilma Rousseff". The Guardian.

[7] "Brazil's Senate Votes to Impeach President Dilma Rousseff". NBC News. 12 May 2016. Retrieved 12 May 2016.

[8] "Afastada, Dilma mantém salário, Alvorada, avião e assessores". Congresso em Foco (in Portuguese).

[cnn_removal-9] 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)

[BBC-removed-10] "Brazil President Dilma Rousseff removed from office by Senate". BBC News. September 1, 2016. Retrieved September 1, 2016.

[11] 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.

[:24-12] Oliveira, Mariana (2018-08-01). "Ministro Luiz Fux afirma em decisão que Lula é inelegível". G1. Retrieved 2018-08-02.

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