1950 Brazilian general election

1950 Brazilian general election

3 October 1950

President

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Candidate Getúlio Vargas Eduardo Gomes Cristiano Machado Party PTB UDN PSD Popular vote 3,849,040 2,342,384 1,697,193 Percentage 48.73% 29.66% 21.49%

Results by state

President before election Eurico Gaspar Dutra PSD President-elect Getúlio Vargas PTB

Vice president

Candidate Café Filho Odilon Braga Altino Marques Party PSP UDN PR Popular vote 2,520,790 2,344,841 1,649,309 Percentage 35.76% 33.26% 23.40%

Vice President before election Nereu Ramos PSD President-elect Café Filho PSP

Chamber of Deputies

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All 304 seats in the Chamber of Deputies

Party Leader Vote % Seats +/– PSD Nereu Ramos 26.99 112 −39 UDN Prado Kelly 16.99 81 0 PTB Getúlio Vargas 16.47 51 +29 PSP Adhemar de Barros 7.29 24 New PR Artur Bernardes 2.82 11 +2 PTN 2.75 5 New PST 2.13 9 New PRT [pt] 0.96 1 New PRP Plínio Salgado 0.94 2 0 PDC 0.74 2 0 PL 0.72 5 +4 PSB 0.48 1 New This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

Chamber of Deputies

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22 seats in the Federal Senate

Party Leader Vote % Seats +/– PSD Nereu Ramos 15.45 6 −19 PTB Otávio Mangabeira 10.45 5 +2 UDN Prado Kelly 9.62 4 −8 PR Artur Bernardes 7.27 2 +2 PSP Adhemar de Barros 6.72 3 +3 PST 1.62 1 New PSB 0.20 1 New This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

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General elections were held in Brazil on 3 October 1950.^[1] The presidential elections were won by Getúlio Vargas of the Brazilian Labour Party, whilst the Social Democratic Party remained the largest party in both the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, although they lost their majority in the former. Voter turnout was 72.1% in the presidential election, 72.0% in the Chamber elections and 77.7% in the Senate elections.^[2]