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2026 ELECTIONS

Brazil's 2026 electorate: older, more scattered and only fractionally bigger

The single largest age group of the Brazilian electorate is now 40 to 44. Photo: Roberto Jayme/TSE

The Superior Electoral Court (TSE) on Monday released the roster that will decide Brazil's October elections, and its most striking feature is how little it grew. Some 158.7 million Brazilians are cleared to vote on October 4, when they will choose a president, 27 governors, 54 senators, 513 congressmen and 1,059 state lawmakers. 

That is 2.29 million more voters than in 2022 — growth of 1.46%, barely a rounding error in a country of 213 million.

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