Brazil's Presidential Elections: From Redemocratization to Polarization

Brazil's modern presidential elections run from the 1989 first direct vote after two decades of military rule, through Lula's 2002 breakthrough and the Workers' Party era, the 2013-2016 crisis and impeachment of Dilma Rousseff, the 2018 rise of Jair Bolsonaro, the bitterly contested 2022 runoff and its contested aftermath, and now the 2026 first round. Each cycle is dateable to specific rounds, runoffs and turnovers of power, and each one shifted the country's coalition map, economic policy and international posture. This timeline was generated automatically by TimeStrands AI from Wikipedia research. Facts are sourced; framing may be imperfect.