In 2023, the PL will have the most seats in the House of Representatives, which is further moving to the right.
With 99 deputies elected in Sunday’s election (2), there was an increase of 23 compared to the current bench.
The legends with the most elected deputies will receive the largest share of the party’s coffers.
The last time a party elected this many representative was in 1998.
At that time, the PFL (which later became the DEM and then União Brasil) had 105 seats in the chamber, and the PSDB had 99.
União Brasil and PP won 59 and 47 seats, respectively.
Gilberto Kassab’s PSD won 42 seats. Overall, the center or center-right parties won 273 seats.
The PT and left-wing parties, on the other hand, won 138 seats. That is all that Lula da Silva will get if elected.
Lula’s party coalition was able to elect 79 deputies, an increase of three seats over the total, the PT and other leftist parties.
Other parties in the Coalition of 10 Legends that support the PT and the PDT received 59 seats.
The PTB will be the party least represented in the House of Representatives.
The acronym, which has three deputies in 2022, elected only one of its candidates, dropping one place in the chamber’s ranking of the largest seats.
The acronyms, which have little representation in the Chamber of Deputies, also receive less public funding.
Overall, 95% of the Party Fund, which is used for the monthly maintenance of parties, is distributed according to the number of votes for federal deputies and the number of representatives elected to the Chamber of Deputies.
If the party does not meet the requirements for compliance with the benefits clause (more on this below), it will not have access to this money.
In 2018, the PT and PSL were the parties that elected the most representatives to the Chamber of Deputies. The PT elected 56 deputies, and Bolsonaro’s party 52.
MDB and PSDB were the biggest losers four years ago compared to 2014.
The party of then-President Michel Temer (MDB) elected 34 deputies-almost half the number of congressmen it had four years earlier. In 2014, Toucans elected 54 deputies; in 2018, only 29.
Currently, in October 2022, Jair Bolsonaro’s PL is the largest bench in parliament.
It has 76 deputies after a massive exit of the PSL from the party window – a period in which deputies are free to change their affiliation.
The PT, in turn, kept the 56 deputies elected in 2018 on its current bench. It is the third largest bench after the PP left from 37 elected deputies to 58 after the party migration.
Two measures taken in recent years seek to gradually reduce party fragmentation: the end of proportional coalitions and the performance clause.
In 2018, the coalition system was still in effect. In this format, seats in the legislature are not divided between parties but between alliances.
It favored the smaller parties.