Brazil
Data on women
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Basic information > About parliament
Speaker
Speaker
Rodrigo Otavio
Soares Pacheco
(Male)
Year of birth
1976
Additional information
Elected on 1 Feb. 2021.
Secretary general
Secretary General
Gustavo Afonso
Sabóia Vieira
(Male)
Notes
Additional information about the Secretary General, in particular regarding their term.
Appointed on 7 April 2021.
Secretary General
Ilana
Trombka
(Female)
Notes
Additional information about the Secretary General, in particular regarding their term.
Appointed on 11 May 2015.
Members
Current number of members, by sex
Men
The number of male parliamentarians who currently hold seats in parliament.
Women
The number of female parliamentarians who currently hold seats in parliament.
Percentage of women
Calculated by dividing the current number of women by the current number of members.
Age
Average age of all members
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See historical data for this field.
Youngest member (years)
Age at the time of the last election or renewal.
Youngest member
Irajá Abreu (Male)
Oldest member (years)
Age at the time of the last election or renewal.
85
Oldest member
José Maranhão (Male)
Total number of MPs, 45 years of age or younger
Total number of MPs, 46 years of age or older
Total per sex
Total of male
Total of female
Total per age interval
18-20
0
21-30
0
46-50
51-60
61-70
71-80
91 and over
0
Number of members, by age
| 18 - 20 | 21 - 30 | 31 - 40 | 41 - 45 | 46 - 50 | 51 - 60 | 61 - 70 | 71 - 80 | 81 - 90 | 91 and over | Totals per gender | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Totals per age interval | 0 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 24 | 22 | 10 | 2 | 0 | |
| Total <= 45: 12 | Total >= 46: 69 | ||||||||||
| Male | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 22 | 20 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 70 |
| Female | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11 |
Reserved seats and quotas
Electoral quota for women
Quotas to promote the representation of women in parliament.
Elections > Election results
Candidates
Total number of candidates
Total number of people who registered as candidates for election. Does not include people who stood as candidates to become "substitute members".
165
Results
Members elected, by sex
Number of men elected
22
Number of women elected
5
Percentage of women elected
The percentage is calculated by dividing the number of women elected in the election and the number of seats at stake at the election.
18.52%
Note on the Distribution of seats according to sex
Five women were elected to the 27 seats at stake in the 2014 elections, bringing the number of women senators to 11 out of a total of 81.
Number of women after election or renewal, by mode of designation
Women Directly Elected
5
New legislature
Total number of men after the election
The total number of male parliamentarians in this parliament/chamber following the election or renewal, regardless of their modes of designation.
70
Total number of women after the election
The total number of female parliamentarians in this parliament/chamber following the election or renewal, regardless of their modes of designation.
11
First Speaker of the new legislature
First Speaker of the new legislature
First name of the Speaker of the new legislature following the election or renewal.
José Renan
Vasconcelos Calheiros
(Male)
Political party
Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB)
Elections > Historical data on women
Women's suffrage
Women’s right to vote
Women’s right to vote
Year in which women obtained the right to vote
1932
National or local
Suffrage: National or Local
National
Restricted or unrestricted suffrage
Suffrage: Restricted or Universal
Universal
Women’s right to stand for election
Women's right to stand for election
Year in which women obtained the right to stand for election
1932
National or local
Stand for Election: National or Local
National
First woman in parliament
First woman in parliament
Year in which first woman entered parliament
1933
Specialized body - Women's caucus
Women's Bench of the Senate
(January 1998)
Formal or informal
Formal
The caucus is open to male MPs
No