Who were the deputies and senators elected in 2022?

Thousands of candidates for the 2022 elections competed for positions to form the Legislative power in 2023. At a national level, this power is made up of two houses: the Federal Senate, with 3 federal senators by state, and the Chamber of Deputies, formed by 523 federal deputies elected by the 27 federation units in a number proportional to their populations.

At state level, there are Legislative Assemblies, where state deputies proposes laws and supervises the work of governors. See how many names were elected to each house this October 2nd:

• 27 senators were elected to fill the 81 seats in the Federal Senate. Five of them were re-elected for their mandate, which lasts 8 years;
• 513 federal deputies were chosen to the Chamber of Deputies for a 4-year term;
• 1.035 state deputies They were elected in the country's 26 states, and 24 district deputies in the Federal District.

The face of the new Senate

See what the new formation of the Federal Senate looks like (CNN)

O Liberal Party (PL), of President Jair Bolsonaro, was the one that most managed to win seats for the Senate in 2023. The party elected eight senators and, as a result, will occupy 14 seats.

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Astronaut Marcos Pontes (PL) was the country's most voted candidate for the Senate. Bolsonaro's former Minister of Science and Technology, he alone received more than 10,7 million votes.

O The second party that elected the most senators was União Brasil, which from February 2023, will have 5 seats.

O Workers' Party, of former president Lula, came third, winning 4 seats in the Senate.

How was the Chamber of Deputies?

Here, the Liberal Party (PL) stands out in numbers, as in the dispute for Senate seats. Ten of the 27 Brazilian federative units elected a candidate from the party.

• PL bench goes from 77 current holders to 98 next year;
• PT-PCdoB-PV, União and MDB also elected large benches, with 80, 59 and 42 representatives, respectively. The PT party federation was, therefore, the second fastest growing in the Chamber for 2023.

For 2023, 23 parties were elected to the Chamber of Deputies, 7 less than in 2018 and lowest sum recorded in the last 4 years. The reduction in the number of parties tends to facilitate negotiations of measures between president and Congress. (360º power)

Elected deputies begin their terms in January 2023 and remain in office for 3 years. Look more composition details in the report of G1 or check which state and district deputies were elected by federation unit on the website Nexus.

Infographic: Nexus Newspaper

• PL and PT will dominate the new Chamber. See how benches have evolved throughout history (Congress in Focus)
• Find out who the senator and deputies received the most votes in the 2022 elections (UOL)

Women and LGBTQIA+

For the first time in history, Brazilians elected two trans deputies to represent them in the Chamber. Erika Hilton (PSOL-SP) was the 9th most voted candidate in the state of São Paulo and Duda Salabert (PDT-MG) the 3rd most voted candidate in Minas Gerais. (Congress in Focus)

• Gay 'out of the closet', Fábio Félix is ​​the most voted deputy in the history of the DF (UOL)
• First trans deputies in Congress between euphoria and fear (UOL)

Female representation

In the Chamber, the number of women elected grew in 2022, but fell in the Senate. (Congress in Focus) See an overview of the change after this election:

• Of the 523 deputies elected last Sunday (2), 18% are women, a total of 91 candidates. In 2018, 77 were elected, forming the current women's bench which represents 15% of the seats. Despite growing 3 percentage points in 2022, the increase in female deputies was smaller compared to 2018, when the jump was 50%.
• In the Senate, only 4 of the 27 candidates elected this year are women.

Meet the project They in Congress, which monitors the processing of proposals on women's rights in the Chamber and the Senate.

Bullet bench

At least 23 candidates supported by the Proarmas, largest group armamentist from Brazil, were elected to the Senate and Chamber this Sunday (2). The founder of the movement and close friend of Bolsonaro, Marcos Pollon (PL), was the 2nd most voted in Mato Grosso do Sul.

Proarmas is made up of public security professionals, right-wing politicians and former members of the current government. Besides trying prevent the return of the Disarmament Statute, the group aims to make weapons policy more flexible as parliamentarians and form the “CACs bench”, in reference to the acronym for hunters, shooters and collectors. (Look)

Elected police officers

In the Chamber of Deputies alone, the number of elected police officers increased by 21,4% in the last 4 years, according to the Public Security Forum this Monday (3). Of the 34 federal deputies elected, almost half (16) ran for the PL, followed by the PP, with 3. São Paulo it was the state that elected the largest number of police officers to the Federal Chamber. check out the complete list of elected delegates, colonels, sergeants and captains.

• A close friend of the Bolsonaro family and pro-guns, Marcos Pollon (PL) is the federal deputy with the most votes in MS (G1)
• São Paulo elects major, delegate, captain and even 'sheriff' for Alesp (Folha de S.Paulo)

Curto Curatorship

• The profile of federal deputies elected in 2022, in ten graphs (Nexus)
• Damares announces that he wants to run for president of the Senate (Metropolises)

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