The scraps of the 2016 municipal elections: maintaining the status quo or change?

What are the conclusions that the 2016 municipal election offers? This article aims to answer such an inquiry. It was born because of an apparent consensus observed in the media space that the results of the last municipal election showed that voters are disappointed with politicians and that there...

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Autor: Oliveira, Adriano
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal do Tocantins (UFT)
Repositorio:Revista Observatório
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.revista.uft.edu.br:article/2904
Acceso en línea:https://sistemas.uft.edu.br/periodicos/index.php/observatorio/article/view/2904
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Municipal election
Political disappointment
Conservative wave
Status quo
Política de decepción
Elección Municipal
Ola conservadora
Eleição municipal
Decepção política
Onda conservadora
eleição municipal
decepção política
onda conservadora
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Sumario:What are the conclusions that the 2016 municipal election offers? This article aims to answer such an inquiry. It was born because of an apparent consensus observed in the media space that the results of the last municipal election showed that voters are disappointed with politicians and that there is a conservative wave in Brazil. I see these assertions as hypotheses. For this reason, the testo through the analysis of several indicators, which are: (1) Percentage of voter abstention and white and void votes; (2) Number of prefectures held by political parties; (3) Number of competitors; (4) And electoral penetration rate by party associations. Five municipal elections are analyzed.