Brazilian presidential election, 1964

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Nominee	Humberto Castelo Branco	Juarez Távora	Eurico Gaspar Dutra
Party	UDN	Military	PSD
Electoral vote	361	3	4
Percentage	98.63	0.81%	0.54%

President before election

Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli (acting)
PSD

Elected President

Humberto Castelo Branco
ARENA

Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli (acting)
PSD

Humberto Castelo Branco
ARENA

Indirect presidential elections were held in Brazil on 11 April 1964 shortly after the March coup. Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco was elected President by the National Congress, receiving 361 of the 366 votes cast.José Maria Alkmin was elected Vice-President unopposed after Auro de Moura Andrade withdrew his candidacy.

None of the candidates for Vice-President achieved the required absolute majority of votes in the first round. José Maria Alkmin received 203 votes; Auro de Moura Andrade received 150 votes; Ranieri Mazzilli received 2 votes; Milton Campos received 2 votes; Antonio Sanchez Galdeano received 1 vote; and there were 63 abstentions. For the second round of voting, Moura Andrade withdrew his candidacy, and Alkmin was elected unopposed, with the following count:

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