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Senator · 2002

The same election in senator 2002

BrazilState of MaranhãoCity
1998
ElectionSenator 2002

Eleição in Maranhão

Year

The dashed year didn't have this election here: it opens the closest office, written below.

All elections34 anos in Maranhão, de 1933 a 2026

No result in Maranhão: in all of Brazil

G é Eleição Geral: presidente, governador, senador e deputados. L é Eleição Local (municipal): prefeito e vereador. De 1933 a 1990 o TSE não publica cargo municipal, então esses anos são todos G.

The same office appears twice in the year a place voted on a different date from the rest of the country (because of a postponement, for example).

2006

In 2002, in Maranhão, Roseana Sarney (PFL) and Edison Lobao (PFL) were elected to the Senate, according to data from Brazil's Superior Electoral Court (TSE).

Registered voters3,391,814
Turned out2,579,150
Abstentions812,664
Blank294,301
Null796,301
Valid4,065,904

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 1998 and 2 elected in 2002.

PFLPartido da Frente Liberal266.67%
PMDBPartido do Movimento Democrático Brasileiro133.33%

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. A single party has an absolute majority.

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.

PFLPartido da Frente Liberal2,420,6752 seats
2,420,675 candidate votes
PDT874,573no seat
874,573 candidate votes
PT864,196no seat
864,196 candidate votes
PMDBPartido do Movimento Democrático Brasileiro760,5761 seat
760,576 candidate votes
PSDB135,382no seat
135,382 candidate votes
PSB128,583no seat
128,583 candidate votes
PPS69,044no seat
69,044 candidate votes
PSTU43,861no seat
43,861 candidate votes
PV38,306no seat
38,306 candidate votes
PCB16,273no seat
16,273 candidate votes
General Election2002SenatorMaranhão (MA)

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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.