Brazilian presidential election, 2010

2006 ←

October 3 (first round)
October 31 (second round)

→ 2014



Nominee	Dilma Rousseff	José Serra
Party	PT	PSDB
Home state	Minas Gerais	São Paulo
Running mate	Michel Temer	Indio da Costa
States carried	15 + DF	11
Popular vote	55,752,483	43,711,162
Percentage	56.05%	43.95%

Presidential election results map after the second round of voting: Red denotes states won by Dilma, and Blue denotes those won by Serra.

President before election

Lula da Silva
PT

Elected President

Dilma Rousseff
PT

Lula da Silva
PT

Dilma Rousseff
PT

The Brazilian presidential election was held in 2010 with two rounds of balloting. The first round was held on October 3 along with other elections as part of the 2010 general election. As no presidential candidate polled 50 percent of the vote on October 3, a runoff was held on October 31 between Dilma Rousseff and José Serra: Rousseff won with 56% of the second round vote.

The election determined the successor to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, of the Workers' Party. According to the Constitution, the president is elected directly for a four-year term, with a limit of two consecutive terms. Lula was thus not eligible to stand again as he has already served two terms after winning the elections in 2002 and being re-elected in 2006. This was the first time since the inaugural presidential election after the military dictatorship that he did not run for president.

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