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Brazil presidential election, 1964 | ||||
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26 May 1964 | ||||
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Nominee | João Goulart | Jânio Quadros | Juarez Távora | |
Party | Brazilian Labour Party (PTB) | National Labour Party (PTN) | Democratic Christian Party (PDC) | |
Home state | Rio Grande do Sul | São Paulo | Ceará | |
Electoral vote | 402 | 26 | 12 | |
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Nominee | Gaspar Dutra | Abstainers | ||
Party | Social Democratic Party (PSD)
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Home state | Mato Grosso | |||
Electoral vote | 2 | 25 | ||
Incumbent President
João Goulart PTB
President-elect
João Goulart PTB |
Indirect presidential elections were held in Brazil in 26 May 1964 shortly after the 1964 coup d'état attempt in the previous month. The election was part of the political reform of the Compromise of May, where President João Goulart was re-elected to serve a second term for two more years where the first elections under the new system would happen. These were the last elections where the president and vice-president were voted separately.
The electoral college was formed by members of the National Congress. In a compromise with the Social Democratic Party, Goulart appointed Nelson Carneiro as his preference to the vice-presidency. Other candidates to the presidency were Jânio Quadros, generally voted by members of the National Labour Party, Juarez Távora, symbolically voted by the opposition, and Gaspar Dutra, who manifested his wish to be president again to 'secure the Brazilian democracy'.
Although the election guaranteed that João Goulart would be re-elected with no threatening opponents, former president Jânio Quadros received 26 votes, while congressman Juarez Távora received 12. Former president Gaspar Dutra received two votes, while 25 congressmen from the opposition abstained, some of them calling for boycott, while others participated in the election for vice-president.
The election for vice-president was contested by Nelson Carneiro, who received 390 votes, future president Leonel Brizola (voted by the more radical sectors of the Labour Party and the left-wing congressmen) with 47 votes, president of the Chamber of Deputies Ranieri Mazzilli with eight votes, and the opposition politician Aliomar Baleeiro with three votes only. Nineteen congressmen abstained, a smaller number compared to the voting for president.
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The presidential election was the last one to elect a separate president and vice-president. A few congressmen boycotted the election, while some of them voted in the vice-presidential election. In 30 May 1964, President João Goulart resumed the second term of his office, while representative Nelson Carneiro assumed the office of Vice-President of Brazil.