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IFES Election Guide | Elections: Brazil Legislative Oct 6 2002
94,741,583
Cast Votes:94,741,583
Valid Votes:153,621,240
Invalid Votes:22,541,639
Registered Voters:115,184,176
Worker's Party 10 - 33,853,150
Liberal Front Party 14 - ▲ 28,408,415
Party of the Brazilian Democratic Movement 9 - 25,199,662
Others 6 - 24,502,972
Brazilian Social Democracy Party 8 - 21,360,291
Brazilian Progressive Party - - 6,903,581
Brazilian Labor Party 2 - ▲ 5,190,032
Liberal Party 2 - 4,857,302
Brazilian Socialist Party 3 - 3,389,139
56 seats in the Federal Senate (Senado Federal)
Chief of State: President Fernando Henrique CARDOSO*
* The president is both the chief of state and head of government. The President is elected by majority vote to serve a 4-year term for a maximum of two mandates. Presidential elections take place under a two-round majority run-off system.
The President is elected by majority vote to serve a 4-year term.
In the Federal Senate (Senado Federal) 81 members are elected by plurality vote to serve 8-year terms*. In the Chamber of Deputies (Camara dos Deputados) 513 members are elected through an open-list proportional representation system to serve 4-year terms.
* One-third of the senators (27 seats) are elected after a four-year period, and two-thirds (54 seats) are elected after the next four-year period.
Leader: Luis Inácio LULA da Silva
Party: Party of the Liberal Front / Partido da Frente Liberal (PFL)
Leader: José SERRA
Party: Brazilian Progressive Party / Partido Progresista Brasilero (PPB)
Party: Liberal Party / Partido Liberal (PL)
Party: Brazilian Labor Party / Partido Trabalhista Brasileiro (PTB)
Leader: Roberto Jefferson
Leader: Anthony GAROTINHO
Population: 174,468,575 (2002)