r/MapPorn • u/Forsaken_Carrot_3075 • 19h ago
Brazil’s election results if they used the Electoral College.
I assigned electoral votes based on the US’s system giving the number of deputies + 3 senators per state. This gives a total of 594 electoral votes and 298 to win (I messed up on the map). This means that Bolsonaro would win because he takes more states, especially in the Southeast, by smaller margins compared to Lula’s enormous margins in the Northeast.
Important caveat though, Brazil caps the number of deputies a state could have at 70, which reduces São Paulo’s electoral votes by 40, as it should have 110 deputies in a proportional system. Those 40 seats/votes are distributed among the other states. So it’s possible that this system would use the proportional distribution, but that wouldn’t make too much of a difference here, Flavio would net about 15 votes.