2014 Brazilian general election
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. President Dilma Rousseff was running for re-election.
Rousseff's main opponent was Aécio Neves, a Senator from state of Minas Gerais, entered the race as the candidate of the centre-right Brazilian Social Democracy Party.[2]
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%.[3] In the second round, Rousseff won with 51.6% to Neves' 48.4%, the closest margin for a Brazilian presidential election since 1989.[4]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "TSE aprova calendário e divulga datas das eleições de 2014". Terra. 22 May 2013. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
- ↑ "Blame It On Aécio". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved 2020-11-14.
- ↑ "Eleições 2014 – Resultados das Eleições 2014 para Presidente". Archived from the original on 2019-09-09. Retrieved 2020-05-28.
- ↑ "Dilma Rousseff re-elected Brazilian president". BBC Online. 26 October 2014. Retrieved 26 October 2014.
