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2014 Brazilian general election
Election for President, Congress, and state positions in Brazil in 2014 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
General elections were held in Brazil on 5 October 2014 to elect the president, the National Congress, and state governorships.[1] As no candidate in the presidential election received more than 50% of the vote in the first round on 5 October 2014, a second-round runoff was held on 26 October 2014. President Dilma Rousseff was running for re-election.
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Rousseff's main opponent was Aécio Neves, a Senator from state of Minas Gerais, entered the race as the candidate of the centre-right Brazilian Social Democracy Party.[2]
In the first round of voting Dilma Rousseff won 41.6% of the vote, ahead of Aécio Neves with 33.6% and Marina Silva with 21.3%.[3] In the second round, Rousseff won with 51.6% to Neves' 48.4%, the closest margin for a Brazilian presidential election since 1989.[4]