Brazil presidential election, 2010 (President Dukakis)

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Brazil Presidential Election, 2010
Octuber 3, 2010 (First Turn); Octuber 31, 2010 (Second Turn)
	Presidential election results map.

The 2010 presidential election in Brazil was the country's 6th presidential election after the 1988 Federal Constitution was enacted. Governor of Minas Gerais, Aécio Neves, of the PSDB, and President José Alencar, of the PT.

The good economic results and the end of the 2006 recession in Brazil led to the incumbent president, José Alencar, having a good breath in the polls in relation to all the opposition candidates. Neves tried to criticize Alencar for his ''populism'' and his involvement in the monthly allowance scandal in the state of Paraíba, but they were unable to contain Alencar's popularity.

On October 31, José Alencar, of the Workers 'Party, ended up winning by 60 million votes against Aécio Neves' 47 million. Alencar ended up becoming the most voted candidate in the history of the elections in Brazil. Alencar's second term began on March 15, 2011, being the third president of the republic to be re-elected after re-democratization.In addition, the PT increased their majority of seats in the chamber of deputies and in the senate, being a great PT victory in the elections.

Alencar became the first PT president to be re-elected in elections since the redemocratization of 1988. Until 2020, it was the last time that a PT candidate had conquered the states of Amazonas, Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro.

Backroud[]

Iran War[]

Right at the beginning of his government, internationally, Alencar ended up doing business with countries like France and the United States. His first term was marked by the departure from the Iran War, as Alencar believed that the war would not benefit Brazil for anything. This matter was discussed in the following elections, with Aécio Neves citing the event.

Crisis 2006[]

The Crisis of 2006 occurs, a crisis that managed to affect 74% of the world economy, with Brazil being one of the main countries in America affected due to trade links with the United States.

5.4 million Brazilians suffered unemployment, and after taking office, Alencar tried his best to ask for help for other countries like Germany and China. China managed to help Brazil in some measures, making the Brazilian economy recover quickly in coparing with other countries. In some respects, this has led to criticism of the government, as China has made quite strong registration measures with its communist ideology, which has led to some small protests.

Economic miracle 2008[]

After the recovery from the 2006 crisis, the government of Alencar managed to focus on social and economic issues, being the social ones: Employment, and the economic: Economy and trade. With worldwide help from Brazil, the Brazilian economy ended up growing very quickly, reaching 50 billion reais in just 100 days. With the economic advance, the government named the event as the "" Economic Miracle "".

PSDB nomination[]


Brazilian Social Democracy Party ticket, 2010
Aécio Neves	João Doria
for president	for vice-president

Governor of Minas Gerais (2003 - 2010)	President of Embratur (1986 - 1988)

In 2009, the popular governor of Minas Gerais, Aécio Neves, announced his campaign for the PSDB, with the purpose of strengthening the country against the PT government. 2 months later, more than 10 candidates announced their pre-candidacy, including the governor of São Paulo, Geraldo Alckim and the mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Cesar Maia. The primary debates took place on December 19, 2009, and ended on January 14, 2010, which were marked by the negative side of the Alencar government.

Aécio Neves, with 13.4 million votes against Alckim's 6.9 million, Neves ended up winning the primaries and disputed the presidential elections.Aécio Neves ended up choosing the former president of Embratur, João Doria as his vice-candidate.

PT nomination[]

Wokers' Party
Wokers' Party ticket, 2010
José Alencar	Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
for president	for vice-president

34th President of Brazil (2007 - 2015)	24th Vice-President of Brazil (2007 - 2015)

For the first time in the history of the Party primaries, the primary was contested with only 1 candidate and the first time that the primaries had a full president.

The primaries were almost contested between 2 candidates with the incumbent president, but the pre-candidate Rui Costa Pimenta ended up having health problems, so he went down and the primaries were canceled.

Result[]

Election 2010 of Brazil first round (President Dukakis) — Map of First Round

Election 2010 of Brazil (President Dukakis) — Map of Second Round

For the first time, a PT candidate is re-elected after the 1988 re-democratization, José Alencar became the third candidate to be re-elected. It was also Brazil first election where it had only 3 candidates, this was due to the great polarization of the PT and PSDB that began to dominate the electoral funds of the two parties.

In the first round, Alencar obtained 53.1 million of the popular vote, while Aécio obtained 45 million. The election had an important participation of the tertiary candidate, Orestes Quércia, who served as governor of São Paulo from 1986 to 1995. Quércia obtained 10% of the valid votes and is considered since 1994 as the MDB candidate with the best result. As both candidates did not get more than 50% of the popular vote. For the fourth time, the election was held by the second round.

Int the second round, Alencar obtained 60 million of the popular vote while the toucan obtained 47 million of the popular vote, this being the most voted candidate in the history of the Brazilian elections.

	Running Mate	Party	First Round		Second Round
			Popular vote
			Count	Pct	Count	Pct
José Alencar	Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva	Woker's Party	53,192,864	47,91%	60,563,684	56,62%
Aécio Neves	João Doria	Brazilian Social Democracy Party	45,121,399	41,54%	47,930,832	43,38%
Orestes Quércias	Luiz Antônio Fleury Filho	Brazilian Democratic Movement Party	11,723,690	10,56%

Popular vote (First Round)

Alencar			47.91%
Neves			41.54%
Quércias			10.56%

Popular vote (Second Round)

Alencar			56.62%
Neves			43.38%

Maps[]

Brazil presidential elections

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