2014 Brazilian general election

2014 Brazilian general election

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Presidential election
5 October 2014 (first round) 26 October 2014 (second round)
Opinion polls
Turnout	80.61% (first round) 78.90% (second round)
Nominee Dilma Rousseff Aécio Neves Party PT PSDB Alliance For Brazil to Keep on Changing Change Brazil Running mate Michel Temer Aloysio Nunes Popular vote 54,501,118 51,041,155 Percentage 51.64% 48.36%
First round results by state Second round results by state
President before election Dilma Rousseff PT Elected President Dilma Rousseff PT
Chamber of Deputies
All 513 seats in the Chamber of Deputies 257 seats needed for a majority
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/– PT Vicente Paulo da Silva 13.94 69 −19 PSDB Antônio Imbassahy 11.39 54 +1 PMDB Eduardo Cunha 11.10 66 −13 PP Eduardo da Fonte 6.61 38 −5 PSB Beto Albuquerque 6.44 34 0 PSD 6.14 36 New PR Bernardo Santana 5.79 34 −7 Republicanos George Hilton 4.55 21 +13 DEM Mendonça Filho 4.20 21 −21 PTB Jovair Arantes 4.02 25 +4 PDT Félix Mendonça Jr. 3.57 19 −9 Solidarity 2.77 15 New PSC André Moura 2.59 13 −5 PV Sarney Filho 2.06 8 −7 PROS 2.03 11 New PPS Rubens Bueno 2.01 10 −2 PCdoB Jandira Feghali 1.97 10 −5 PSOL Ivan Valente 1.79 5 +2 PHS None 0.95 5 +3 PTdoB Luis Tibé 0.84 1 −2 PSL None 0.83 1 0 PRP Francisco Sampaio 0.75 3 +1 PTN None 0.74 4 +4 PEN 0.69 2 New PSDC 0.52 2 +2 PMN 0.48 3 −1 PRTB 0.47 1 −1 PTC 0.35 2 +1 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Federal Senate
27 of the 81 seats in the Federal Senate
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/– PSDB Aloysio Nunes 26.73 10 −1 PT Humberto Costa 16.96 12 −3 PMDB Eunício Oliveira 13.58 18 −1 PSB Rodrigo Rollemberg 13.57 7 +4 PSD 8.00 3 New PDT Acir Gurgacz 4.04 8 +4 DEM José Agripino 3.93 5 −1 PTB Gim Argello 3.14 3 −3 PROS 2.50 1 New PP Francisco Dornelles 2.16 5 0 PSOL Randolfe Rodrigues 1.17 1 −1 PCdoB Vanessa Grazziotin 0.90 1 −1 PV Paulo Davim 0.81 1 +1 PR Alfredo Nascimento 0.78 4 0 Solidarity 0.41 1 New Republicanos Marcelo Crivella 0.34 1 0 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

General elections were held in Brazil on 5 October 2014 to elect the president, the National Congress, and state governorships.^[1] As no candidate in the presidential election received more than 50% of the vote in the first round on 5 October 2014, a second-round runoff was held on 26 October 2014.^[1]

Elections were held in the midst of the devastating 2014 Brazilian economic crisis.^[2] President Dilma Rousseff of the left-wing Workers' Party ran for reelection, choosing incumbent Vice President Michel Temer of the centre-right Brazilian Democratic Movement as her running-mate. During her first term, Rousseff's presidency was rocked by the 2013 protests in Brazil, initiated mainly by the Free Fare Movement, in response to social inequality in the country.^[3]

Aécio Neves, a senator from the electorally-crucial^[4] state of Minas Gerais and the grandson of former president-elect Tancredo Neves, entered the race as the candidate of the centre-right Brazilian Social Democracy Party. Neves, who previously served as a popular Governor of Minas Gerais,^[5] had previously considered running for president in 2010 before ultimately declining. Unlike in past presidential elections, the PSDB ticket consisted of two members of the party, with São Paulo Senator Aloysio Nunes serving as his running mate.

Former Pernambuco Governor Eduardo Campos, who had served with Rousseff in the left-wing Lula administration, entered the race as a centre-left alternative to Rousseff on the Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB) ticket.^[6] For his running mate, Campos chose Marina Silva, an environmentalist politician from the state of Acre who performed unexpectedly well in the 2010 presidential election. However, Campos unexpectedly died in a plane crash less than two months before the first round of voting, and Silva replaced him at the top of the ticket.

In the first round of voting, Dilma Rousseff won 41.6% of the vote, ahead of Aécio Neves with 33.6% and Marina Silva with 21.3%.^[7] Rousseff and Neves contested the runoff on 26 October, and Rousseff won re-election by a narrow margin, 51.6% to Neves' 48.4%, the closest margin for a Brazilian presidential election since 1989.^[8]