2018 Brazilian general election

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

2018 Brazilian general election

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Opinion polls
Turnout	79.67% (first round) 78.7% (second round)[1]
Presidential election
Candidate Jair Bolsonaro Fernando Haddad[a] Party PSL PT Alliance Brazil Above Everything, God Above Everyone The People Happy Again Home state Rio de Janeiro[b] São Paulo Running mate Hamilton Mourão Manuela d'Ávila States carried 15 + DF 11 Popular vote 57,797,847 47,040,906 Percentage 55.13% 44.87%
Map of results for each State and the Federal District.
President before election Michel Temer MDB Elected President Jair Bolsonaro PSL
Parliamentary election
Party Leader % Seats ± Chamber of Deputies PSL Eduardo Bolsonaro 11.7% 52 PT Paulo Pimenta 10.3% 56 PSDB Carlos Sampaio 6.0% 29 PSD Domingos Neto 5.8% 34 PP Arthur Lira 5.6% 38 PMDB Baleia Rossi 5.5% 34 PSB Tadeu Alencar 5.5% 32 PR José Rocha 5.3% 33 PRB Jhonatan de Jesus 5.1% 30 DEM Elmar Nascimento 4.7% 29 PDT André Figueiredo 4.6% 28 Federal Senate PT Lindbergh Farias 14.5% 6 PSDB Paulo Bauer 11.9% 8 PMDB Simone Tebet 7.5% 12 DEM Ronaldo Caiado 5.4% 6 PSD Omar Aziz 4.8% 7 PP Ana Amélia Lemos 4.4% 6 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

Second round results

First round results

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

1. 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]
2. Born in São Paulo, electoral based in Rio de Janeiro
3. Temer regardless said he had no plans to run