In 2026, in Santa Catarina, Carol de Toni (PL) and Carlos Bolsonaro (PL) were elected to the Senate, according to data from Brazil's Superior Electoral Court (TSE).
In this election each federative unit chose TWO senators. The Federal Senate is not renewed all at once: every four years one third of the seats goes to a vote (one per state) and, four years later, two thirds (two per state). In two-seat years voters chose two different names, which is why the sum of the votes exceeds the number of voters who turned out: in 2010 there were 173,007,018 valid votes for 111,038,684 voters who turned out. It is not a counting error or a double count: a single voter could produce up to two valid votes. In one-seat years the ratio goes back to normal and valid votes fall below turnout, because blank and null votes and abstentions are left out of the count.
How many votes it takes to elect a senator, 2026
Last elected
2,041,840
Most voted
2,694,918
Top non-elected
1,233,034
See the table from 1994 to 2026
In 2026, the winner of the Senate race in Santa Catarina got 2,694,918 votes, among 13 candidates.
Majority race: whoever gets the most votes wins, with no party quotient. The Senate renews two thirds and one third of its seats in alternating elections: that is why the number of seats changes from one election to the next.
The table above already includes every year from 1994 onward. To see an election before 1994, choose the year in All elections in Santa Catarina.
One candidacy on this list had its votes annulled, according to data from the TSE: it appears at the end, with the votes entered on the voting machines (the machine tally report), without a percentage and outside the ranking of valid votes, because these votes are not part of the valid votes. The tag next to it shows the status of the candidacy registration in the TSE data, which may still change with a decision by the Electoral Courts.
Registered voters5,719,541
Turned out4,634,550
Abstentions1,084,991
Blank607,118
Null608,907
Valid8,041,100
Registered voters: voters who could vote. Turnout: how many went to the polls. Abstentions: how many stayed away (registered voters − turnout). Blank and Null: those who turned out but did not choose a valid candidate. Valid: the votes that count for candidates (turnout − blank − null); percentages are calculated on them.
3 seats in the Federal Senate: the whole chamber, adding up 1 elected in 2022 and 2 elected in 2026.
PLPartido Liberal3100.00%
Elected seats, from the TSE results. This is the composition that came out of the ballot boxes, not the one the chamber had over the legislative term: anyone who switched parties after the election does not change this number. The count adds up those elected, without recalculating the quotient, so it matches the legal size of the chamber.
Votes by party (all, including those that elected no one)
Each party by its total votes (candidate votes + party-list votes), including those that won no seat.
PLPartido Liberal6,220,8683 seats
6,220,868 candidate votes
PPProgressistas1,233,034no seat
1,233,034 candidate votes
PTPartido dos Trabalhadores823,200no seat
823,200 candidate votes
MDBMovimento Democrático Brasileiro787,212no seat
787,212 candidate votes
PSOLPartido Socialismo e Liberdade773,640no seat
773,640 candidate votes
PSD608,213no seat
608,213 candidate votes
PSB605,258no seat
605,258 candidate votes
PTB443,425no seat
443,425 candidate votes
NOVO99,107no seat
99,107 candidate votes
PDT66,496no seat
66,496 candidate votes
MISSÃOPartido Missão59,365no seat
59,365 candidate votes
UPUnidade Popular24,940no seat
24,940 candidate votes
PRDPartido Renovacao Democratica14,060no seat
14,060 candidate votes
PSTUPartido Socialista dos Trabalhadores Unificado12,536no seat
12,536 candidate votes
Todas as eleições in Santa Catarina 34 anos, de 1933 a 2026▾
As eleições de Santa Catarina, ano a ano: nas eleições gerais de 1933 a 2026, a votação de cada candidato a presidente (somada no estado), governador, senador, deputado federal e deputado estadual, com a lista completa dos candidatos e quem foi eleito; nas eleições municipais de 1996 a 2024, prefeito e vereador, apurados cidade a cidade: cada uma leva às cidades de Santa Catarina. Escolha o ano e o cargo:
General election: president, governor, senator and deputies. Municipal election: mayor and city councillor.
The cutoff table covers from 1994 to 2026; the results by election go as far as the TSE publishes each office. Mayor and city council votes are counted city by city: in the list of elections, each one takes you to the cities in the state.
The percentage of valid votes is not shown in this table: valid votes include party-only votes, which do not go to any candidate.
