Parliamentary elections were held in Brazil on 15 November 1986.[ 1] The Brazilian Democratic Movement Party won 260 of the 487 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 38 of the 49 seats in the Senate . The members of both chambers elected in this election, together with the Senators elected in 1982 came together to form a Constitutional Assembly during 1987 and 1988. The Assembly produced a new constitution , which was promulgated on 5 October 1988.[ 2]
Results
Chamber of Deputies
Party Votes % Seats +/– Brazilian Democratic Movement Party 22,633,805 47.84 260 +60 Liberal Front Party 8,374,709 17.70 118 New Democratic Social Party 3,731,735 7.89 33 –202 Workers' Party 3,253,999 6.88 16 +8 Democratic Labour Party 3,075,429 6.50 24 +1 Brazilian Labour Party 2,110,467 4.46 17 +4 Liberal Party 1,335,139 2.82 6 New Christian Democratic Party 565,021 1.19 5 New Brazilian Socialist Party 450,948 0.95 1 New Brazilian Communist Party 427,618 0.90 3 New Communist Party of Brazil 297,237 0.63 3 New Social Christian Party 207,903 0.44 1 New Brazilian Municipalist Party 180,207 0.38 0 New Humanist Party 124,882 0.26 0 New Communitarian Municipalist Party 101,693 0.21 0 New Labour Agrarian and Renewing Socialist Party 68,121 0.14 0 New Socialist Party 59,165 0.13 0 New Brazilian People's Party 57,959 0.12 0 New Party of National Mobilization 44,173 0.09 0 New Renewing Labour Party 37,229 0.08 0 New Democratic Nationalist Party 34,740 0.07 0 New Labour Reforming Party 29,387 0.06 0 New New Republic Party 28,751 0.06 0 New National Community Party 21,768 0.05 0 New Youth Party 19,048 0.04 0 New National Tancredista Party 17,611 0.04 0 New Nationalist Party 12,298 0.03 0 New Independent Democratic Party 7,329 0.02 0 New Progressive Renewal Party 2,787 0.01 0 New Total 47,311,158 100.00 487 +8 Valid votes 47,311,158 71.88 Invalid/blank votes 18,512,433 28.12 Total votes 65,823,591 100.00 Registered voters/turnout 69,309,231 94.97 Source: Nohlen
Senate
References
^ Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II , p174 ISBN 978-0-19-928358-3
^ Nohlen, p167
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