5 October 2014 (2014-10-05) (First round)
26 October 2014 (2014-10-26) (Second round) 2018 → 15 11+DF 51.64% 48.36% | Turnout 78.90% 54,501,119 51,041,155 | |
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General elections were held in Brazil on 5 October 2014 to elect the President, the National Congress, state governors and state legislatures. Since no candidate in the presidential and several gubernatorial elections received more than 50% of the vote, a second-round runoff was held on 26 October.
Contents
- Presidential election
- Dilma Rousseff
- Acio Neves
- Allegations of Corruption
- Opinion polls
- Gubernatorial elections
- Parliamentary election
- References
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%. Rousseff and Neves contested the runoff on 26 October with Rousseff being re-elected by a narrow margin, 51.6% to Neves' 48.4%.
Presidential election
Incumbent President Dilma Rousseff of the Workers' Party (PT), Brazil's first female president, was challenged by 11 other candidates, of whom Minas Gerais Senator Aécio Neves from the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB) and Marina Silva from the Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB) were her main rivals. As none of the candidates obtained over 50% of the valid votes on 5 October, a second round was held on 26 October between Rousseff and Neves, who had finished first and second respectively in the 5 Oct vote.
In Brazil's closest presidential election results since 1989, Rousseff narrowly defeated Neves in the second round, taking 51.6% of the vote to Neves' 48.4%.
The original PSB candidate was Eduardo Campos. However, he died in a plane crash in Santos on 13 August 2014, after which the party chose Silva, who had been his running mate, to replace him as the party's presidential candidate.
Dilma Rousseff
Criticized for low economic growth and intervening in the economy.
Aécio Neves
Proposed less intervention in the economy.
Allegations of Corruption
Shortly before the election a former executive at the state run oil company Petrobas accused a minister, three state governors, six senators and dozens of congressmen from President Dilma Rousseff’s Workers’ Party (PT) and several coalition allies of accepting kickbacks from contracts with the company.
Opinion polls
First Round
Second Round
Rousseff vs. Neves
Rousseff vs. Silva
Silva vs. Neves
Gubernatorial elections
The Governors elected in 2014 were the following:
Parliamentary election
Sources: Chamber Senate
198 (38.6%) of the elected candidates are new to the House of Representatives, the highest rate of newcomers in 16 years. The number of parliamentary represented parties has also increased: from 22 parties after the 2010 election to 28 at the beginning of the new term.