Electoral system of Brazil

Electoral system of Brazil
Voting
	Universal, secret and direct
Mandatory	Literate people aged 18 to 70
Optional	People aged 16 and 17 and over 70 years old and illiterate people aged 18 to 70
Candidacy
	Mandatory party affiliation (independent candidacies not allowed); Possibility of non-verticalized coalitions; Gender quota (from 30% to 70%); Possibility of one only consecutive reelection (only for executive offices);
Elective offices
Executive offices	President, governor and mayors
Legislative offices	Senators, federal representatives, state representatives, district representatives and city councillors
Term length	8 years for senators and 4 years for all other offices.
Frequency	Biennial alternation between municipal elections and federal and state elections
Campaign financing
Private	Limited self donations and limited individual donations
Public	Federal Party Fund and party political broadcast
Voting method and ballot
Two-round system	President, governors and mayors in cities with more than 200,000 inhabitants
First-past-the-post	Senators (alternating every 4 years) and mayors in cities with less than 200,000 inhabitants
Plurality block voting	Senators (alternating every 4 years)
Open list proportional representation	Federal, state and district representatives and city councillors
Ballot	Electronic

The electoral system of Brazil is the set of means used to choose representatives and government members of the Federative Republic of Brazil. The current system is defined by the 1988 Constitution and the Electoral Code (Law No. 4,737 of 1965), in addition to being regulated by the Superior Electoral Court (Portuguese: Tribunal Superior Eleitoral, TSE) as delegated by law. The Constitution itself already defines three distinct electoral systems, which are detailed in the Electoral Code: proportional elections for the Chamber of Deputies, mirrored in the legislative powers at the state (Legislative Assemblies) and municipal (City Council) levels, majority elections with one or two elected representatives to the Federal Senate and majority elections in two rounds for president and other executive heads in other spheres.

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