2018 Brazilian general election
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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
[change | change source]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
[change | change source]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]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Presidente_Michel_Temer_%28foto_oficial%29_-_cortada_%28cropped_2%29.jpg/393px-Presidente_Michel_Temer_%28foto_oficial%29_-_cortada_%28cropped_2%29.jpg)
Candidates
[change | change source]Second round
[change | change source]The following candidates advanced to the second round as they were placed in the top two candidates following the voting:
Defeated in first round
[change | change source]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
[change | change source]First round
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Polling from 2015 until the day of the election
Second round
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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
[change | change source]Second round
[change | change source]| Candidate | Party | Running mate | Party | Votes | % | |
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| 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
[change | change source]Notes
[change | change source]- ↑ 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
[change | change source]- ↑ "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
[change | change source]- 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