With 99.94% of ballot boxes counted, data from the TSE indicated that 21.68% of Brazilians eligible to vote did not go to the polls
THE 1st round of the municipal election held this Sunday (6.Oct.2024) had an abstention rate of 21.68%, according to data updated by the TSE until 9:57 pm this Sunday (Oct 6, 2024), when 99.94% of the ballot boxes had already been counted. Of the 155.9 million voters eligible to vote, 33.7 million did not go to the polls.
This year’s non-attendance rate is the 2nd highest since the 2000 elections. It was just not higher than that of the 2020 elections, during the pandemic. That year, abstention was 23.15%.
In 2020, 34.2 million Brazilians stopped voting – corresponding to 23.15% of the total electorate (147.9 million).
Since 2000, the election with the lowest abstention percentage was the one held in 2004, when it reached 14.22%. Then came 2008, with 14.50%. In 2016, the last election before the pandemic, abstention was 17.58%.
The abstention rate in the 1st round of the 2022 general election was 20.79%, higher than that recorded 4 years earlier (20.2%).
The president of TSE (Superior Electoral Court), the minister Carmen Luciamade a statement on national television on Saturday (October 5, 2024) with the aim of encouraging voters to vote.
“He [o voto] will be determined, the result will be announced and those elected will be sworn in according to
whatever the majority of the electorate decides, as is typical of democracy. Each voter makes their city, and each city is the Brazil in which we walk every day. From the plural, we make civic unity. Let us walk together, attentively, without hostility or insurmountable discouragement. Your vote is the city that is built”, declared.
This Sunday (6.Oct.2024), Brazilians voted to elect mayors, vice-mayors and councilors of 5,569 cities.
There are no municipal elections in Brasília (DF) (2,176,616 voters) and in Fernando de Noronha (state district of Pernambuco) (3,454 voters). Brazilians registered to vote abroad (761,390 voters) also do not participate in the municipal election: they are only eligible to vote in the presidential contest. In other words, 2,941,460 voters were unable to vote this Sunday.
ELECTORATE STATISTICS
The majority of the electorate are women. Here is how the Brazilian electorate is divided:
- women – 81,806,914 (52.47%);
- men – 74,076,997 (47.51%);
- voters who did not inform their gender – 28,769 (0.02%).
Official data show that the electorate eligible to vote in cities that elect mayors grew 5.4% compared to the 2020 municipal election – when there were 147,918,483 voters. Read the following infographic about the evolution of the electorate eligible to vote for mayor over the years:
The electorate votes divided into 500,183 sections distributed across 2,619 electoral zones.
The municipalities with the smallest and largest electorates are in the State of São Paulo:
- Borá (in the northwest of São Paulo) – 1,094 voters;
- São Paulo (State capital) – 9,322,444 voters.
Read the history of the electorate divided by state:
VOTERS BY AGE GROUP
For 135,386,443 voters, voting is mandatory in 2024 – the majority of this contingent is between 45 and 59 years old (38,883,736). Voters aged 16 to 17, who are not obliged to vote, number 1,836,081.
Read the distribution by age group in the infographic:
MUNICIPALITY WILL HAVE 1ST MAYOR
In 2020, Brazil had 5,568 municipalities. Now, they are 5,569 because Boa Esperança do Norte was created, in the State of Mato Grosso. This city with 4,243 people eligible to vote had its creation confirmed by the STF (Federal Supreme Court) in October 2023.
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