1989 Brazilian Presidential Election
Direct elections return15 November and 17 December 1989 · The New Republic · two-round vote
Presidential elections were held in Brazil in 1989, with the first round on November 15 and a second round on December 17. They were the first direct presidential elections since 1960, the first to be held using a two-round system and the first to take place under the 1988 constitution, which followed two decades of authoritarian rule after the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état.
President before
José Sarney
MDB
Elected President
Fernando Collor
PRN
Winning share
53.0%
second round
Turnout
88.1%
second round 85.6%
The result
| Fernando Collor | National Reconstruction Party | 20.611.030 | 30.48% | 35.090.206 | 53.03% |
| Lula da Silva | Workers' Party | 11.622.321 | 17.19% | 31.075.803 | 46.97% |
| Leonel Brizola | Democratic Labour Party | 11.167.665 | 16.51% | — | — |
| Mário Covas | Brazilian Social Democracy Party | 7.790.381 | 11.52% | — | — |
| Paulo Maluf | Democratic Social Party | 5.986.585 | 8.85% | — | — |
| Guilherme Afif | Liberal Party | 3.272.520 | 4.84% | — | — |
| Ulysses Guimarães | Party of the Brazilian Democratic Movement | 3.204.996 | 4.74% | — | — |
| Roberto Freire | Brazilian Communist Party | 769.117 | 1.14% | — | — |
| Aureliano Chaves | Party of the Liberal Front | 600.821 | 0.89% | — | — |
| Ronaldo Caiado | Social Democratic Party | 488.893 | 0.72% | — | — |
| Affonso Camargo | Brazilian Labour Party | 379.284 | 0.56% | — | — |
| Enéas Carneiro | Party of the Reconstruction of the National Order | 360.578 | 0.53% | — | — |
| Marronzinho | Social Progressive Party | 238.408 | 0.35% | — | — |
| Paulo Gontijo | People's Party | 198.710 | 0.29% | — | — |
| Zamir Teixeira | National Communitarian Party | 187.164 | 0.28% | — | — |
| Lívia Maria | Nationalist Party | 179.925 | 0.27% | — | — |
| Eudes Mattar | Progressive Liberal Party | 162.343 | 0.24% | — | — |
| Fernando Gabeira | Green Party | 125.844 | 0.19% | — | — |
| Celso Brant | Party of National Mobilization | 109.903 | 0.16% | — | — |
| Antônio Pedreira | Brazilian People's Party | 86.107 | 0.13% | — | — |
| Manoel Horta | Party of the Christian Democracy of Brazil | 83.291 | 0.12% | — | — |
| Armando Corrêa | Brazilian Municipalist Party | 0 | 0.00% | — | — |