Country Profile:

Upcoming Elections

  • Presidential
    First Round
    October 3, 2010
  • Legislative
    October 3, 2010
  • Presidential
    Second Round
    October 31, 2010
Brazil
  • Brazil
  • Federative Republic of Brazil
  • Region: Americas

Description of government structure:

  • Chief of State: President Luiz Inácio LULA DA SILVA *
  • Head of Government: President Luiz Inácio LULA DA SILVA
  • Assembly: Brazil has a bicameral National Congress (Congresso Nacional) consisting of the Federal Senate (Senado Federal) with 81 seats and the Chamber of Deputies (Camara dos Deputados) with 513 seats.

* 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.

Description of electoral system:

  • The President is elected by popular 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.

Population:

  • Population: 188,078,227 (July 2006 )

Future elections

  • Presidential
    Second Round - October 31, 2010
  • Presidential
    First Round - October 3, 2010
  • Legislative - October 3, 2010

Past elections

Last Updated on 02/04/2010