Republica Federativa do Brasil
Federative Republic of Brazil
Sistema Electoral Electoral System
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National Executive
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Composition
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1 President and 1 Vice-President
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Election System
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Absolute majority
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Duration of Term
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Four years
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Term Limits
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The President is allowed one consecutive
reelection.
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Upper House of the National Legislature
- Senate
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Composition
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81 Senators
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Election System
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Senators are elected through plurality,
3 from each of the 26 states plus Brasilia (Federal District).
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Membership is renewed every four years
by one-third and two-thirds, in alternation.
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Duration of Term
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Eight years
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Term Limits
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Senators may be reelected indefinitely.
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Lower House of the National Legislature
- Chamber of Deputies
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Composition
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513 Deputies
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Election System
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Deputies are elected through open list
proportional representation.
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Voters cast their vote for either a political
party or an individual.
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Votes given to candidates from each party
are pooled and added to the votes received by that party
to give a total party vote; this is used to determine the
number of seats won by each party.
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The candidates with the most votes on
each party list win the seats allocated to that party.
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Duration of Term
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Four years
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Term Limits
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Deputies may be reelected indefinitely.
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State / Provincial Executive
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Composition
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26 Governors for each state and 1 for
the Federal District
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Election System
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Elected by plurality in each state
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Duration of Term
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Four Years
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Term Limits
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Governors may serve two terms
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| District magnitude for PR districts? |
For the Chamber of Deputies, seats are
allocated in proportion to each state's population. Ranges
from 8 to 70, with an average of 19. (1)
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| Threshold for PR seats |
Yes. Parties must obtain at least 5% of
the overall vote, (excluding blank and null votes) distributed
among at least a third of the states, with a minimum of
at least 2% in each state
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| Voting legally compulsory? |
Yes.
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| Gender quotas? |
Yes. 30% of candidates list must be female.
(2)
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| Quotas for minority representation? |
No.
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| Is remote voting possible? |
Brazilian citizens living abroad can only
vote in Presidential elections.
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| Concurrent Elections? |
Yes.
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(1) The average information was taken from the book "Political Institutions and Governability from FHC to Lula," Fabiano Santos and Marcio Grijo Vilarouca, in Democratic Brazil Revisited, edited by Peter R. Kingstone and Timothy J. Power, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008, p. 58.
(2) Information taken from Quota Project (September 2010).
Fuentes / Sources: Governo do Brasil, Tribunal Superior Eleitoral (Codigo Eleitoral), Câmara dos Deputados