In the first round of the 2022 elections, held on October 2, 14.6 million people in Brazil’s Southeast region failed to vote.
This number equals 22% of eligible voters in the country’s most populous region.
In São Paulo alone, 7.5 million people did not go to the polls (21.6% of those eligible).
In Minas Gerais, 3.6 million (22.3%). And in Rio de Janeiro, 2.9 million (22.7%). The rate in Espírito Santo was 20.8%.
The national average of abstention in 2022 was 20.95% – higher than the one registered four years ago (20.3%). This number has been growing since 2006.
President Jair Bolsonaro (Liberal Party – PL) finished ahead in 7 of the 10 states where most people stopped voting, while former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Workers’ Party – PT) won in 7 of the 10 with the highest attendance.
In the capitals of the Southeast, abstentions were even higher than those registered in the interior.
In São Paulo, 24.2% of eligible voters abstained from voting. In Belo Horizonte, 21.8%. And in Rio, 21.3%.
These three cities concentrated 39.9% of the valid votes in the first round.
With information from Poder360