1954 Brazilian legislative election

Parliamentary elections were held in Brazil on 3 October 1954.[1] The Social Democratic Party remained the largest party in both the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. Voter turnout was 65.5%.[2]

1954 Brazilian legislative election

3 October 1954

326 seats in the Chamber of Deputies
42 seats in the Senate
Party Leader % Seats ±
Chamber of Deputies
PSD Nereu Ramos 23.1 114 +2
UDN Arthur F. dos Santos 14.3 74 -7
PTB Getúlio Vargas 15.7 56 +5
PSP Adhemar de Barros 9.3 32 +8
PR Arthur Bernardes 2.7 19 +8
PL 1.2 8 +3
NLP 2.1 6 +1
PSB 1.5 3 +2
PRP Plínio Salgado 0.8 3 +1
PDC 1.3 2 0
PST 0.7 2 -7
LRP 0.7 1 0
Other parties 0.5 6
Senate
PSD Nereu Ramos 13.3 16 +10
UDN Arthur F. dos Santos 11.2 10 +6
PTB Getúlio Vargas 8.5 10 +5
PSP Adhemar de Barros 11.7 2 -1
PL 0.3 2 +2
NLP 3.5 1 New
PR Arthur Bernardes 0.9 1 -10
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

Results

Chamber of Deputies

Party Votes % Seats +/–
Social Democratic Party2,136,22023.1114+2
Brazilian Labour Party1,447,78415.756+5
National Democratic Union1,318,10114.374–7
Social Progressive Party863,4019.332+12
PSD-PTB411,5214.5
PSD-PRP-PL257,2472.8
UDN-PTB-PR251,8912.7
Republican Party246,4872.719+8
PSD-PDC-PSP-PL-PRP221,2592.4
UDN-PR-PL218,5032.4
PTB-PST207,7572.2
National Labor Party190,8392.16+1
PR-PDC151,0031.6
Brazilian Socialist Party136,3291.53+2
PSD-PL123,8391.3
Christian Democratic Party117,3451.320
Liberator Party114,6651.28+3
UDN-PSP97,6041.1
PSD-UDN85,9370.9
PTB-PR81,7560.9
PRP-PSP78,1290.8
Party of Popular Representation70,3460.83+1
PSP-UDN-PL67,5150.7
Labour Republican Party65,3250.710
PSD-PTB-PDC-PSB-PS-PR53,1230.6
UDN-PST-PSP50,0990.5
PSD-PSB-PR48,9680.5
PSP-PST44,7200.5
Social Labour Party32,4400.42–7
Others45,6300.56+6
Invalid/blank votes654,692
Total9,890,475100326+22
Registered voters/turnout15,104,60465.5
Source: Nohlen

Senate

Party Votes % Seats
Social Democratic Party2,102,00013.316
Social Progressive Party1,843,23011.72
National Democratic Union1,758,87211.210
Brazilian Labour Party1,333,3458.510
National Labor Party551,5493.51
Republican Party134,1100.91
Christian Democratic Party107,0500.70
Brazilian Socialist Party70,0150.40
Party of Popular Representation60,8140.40
Liberator Party44,3420.32
Social Labour Party4750.00
Others7,759,56449.20
Invalid/blank votes3,809,054
Total9,890,47510042
Registered voters/turnout15,057,722
Source: Nohlen

References

  1. Nohlen, D (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II, p173 ISBN 978-0-19-928358-3
  2. Nohlen, p174
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.