2014 Brazilian general election

Second round results

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]

2014 Brazilian General Election Media

2014 Brazil Presidential Elections, Round 1
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Official photo of President Rousseff, taken by official photographer, at Alvorada Palace on January 9th, 2011.
Vice-Presidente Michel Temer
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The Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB) wordmark.
Aécio Neves em 23 de outubro de 2014.
Senador do Brasil, Aloysio Nunes, do Estado de São Paulo, 9/3/2011
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