2018 Brazilian general election facts for kids

Second round results

First round results

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

The 2014 elections Dilma Rousseff re-elected as president in the second round with 51.6% of the vote.

However, on 3 December 2015, impeachment process against Rousseff were officially accepted by the Chamber of Deputies. Vice President Michel Temer, of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, became Acting President of Brazil. 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. 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.

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.

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  President
  Michel Temer (MDB)
  from São Paulo
  Declared ineligible on 2 June 2018

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  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:

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  Jair Bolsonaro
  (PSL)
  from Rio de Janeiro

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  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:

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  Geraldo Alckmin
  (PSDB)
  from São Paulo

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  João Amoêdo
  (NOVO)
  from Rio de Janeiro

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  Guilherme Boulos
  (PSOL)
  from São Paulo

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  Cabo Daciolo
  (PATRI)
  from Santa Catarina

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  Álvaro Dias
  (PODE)
  from Paraná

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  José Maria Eymael
  (DC)
  from Rio Grande do Sul

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  Ciro Gomes
  (PDT)
  from Ceará

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  Henrique Meirelles
  (MDB)
  from Goiás

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  Marina Silva
  (REDE)
  from Acre

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  Vera Lúcia
  (PSTU)
  from Pernambuco

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  João Goulart Filho
  (PPL)
  from Rio de Janeiro

Opinion polling

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

Second round

First round

Images for kids

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  Voters lined up waiting for their turn to vote in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul

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  Second round results by state

See also

In Spanish: Elecciones generales de Brasil de 2018 para niños