List of movements/Political Parties/Brazil

This is an incomplete list of political parties and heads of state of Brazil.

Active parties

Represented in the National Congress

Government

• Federação Brasil da Esperança (Brazil of Hope Federation)
  • Partido dos Trabalhadores (Workers' Party)
  • Partido Comunista do Brasil (Communist Party of Brazil)
  • Partido Verde (Green Party)
• PSOL REDE Federation
  • Partido Socialismo e Liberdade (Socialism and Liberty Party)
    • Factions
      • Ação Popular Socialista - Nova Era (Socialist People's Action - New Era)
      • Brigadas Populares (People's Brigades) [Joined the Solidarity Revolution]
      • Centelhas (Sparks)
      • Fortalecer o PSOL (Strengthen PSOL)
      • Insurgência (Insurgency)
      • Liberdade, Socialismo e Revolução (Freedom, Socialism and Revolution)
      • Maloka Socialista (Socialist Maloka)
      • Primavera Socialista (Socialist Spring)
      • Polo Comunista Luiz Carlos Prestes (Luiz Carlos Prestes Communist Pole)
      • Movimento Esquerda Socialista (Socialist Left Movement)
      • Revolução Solidária (Solidarity Revolution)
      • Refundação Comunista (Communist Refoundation)
      • RAiZ - Movimento Cidadanista (Roots - Citizens' Movement)
      • Subverta (Subvert)
  • Rede Sustentabilidade (Sustainability Network)
• Avante (Forward)
• Movimento Democrático Brasileiro (Brazilian Democratic Movement)
• Partido Democrático Trabalhista (Democratic Labor Party)
• Partido Social Democrático (Social Democratic Party)
• Partido Socialista Brasileiro (Brazilian Socialist Party)
• Solidariedade (Solidarity)

Opposition

• PSDB Cidadania Federation
  • Partido da Social Democracia Brasileira (Brazilian Social Democracy Party)
  • Cidadania (Citizenship)
• Partido Liberal (Liberal Party)
• Partido Novo (New Party)
• Partido Renovação Democrática (Democratic Renewal Party)
• Podemos (We Can)
• Progressistas (Progressives)

Independent

• Republicanos (Republicans)
• União Brasil (Brazil Union)

Extra-parliamentary

• Agir (Act)
• Democracia Cristã (Christian Democracy)
• Mobilização Nacional (National Mobilization)
• Partido Comunista Brasileiro (Brazilian Communist Party)
• Partido da Causa Operária (Workers' Cause Party)
• Partido da Mulher Brasileira (Brazilian Woman's Party)
• Partido Renovador Trabalhista Brasileiro (Brazilian Labor Renewal Party)
• Partido Socialista dos Trabalhadores Unificado (United Socialist Workers' Party)
• Unidade Popular (Popular Unity)

Former parties

Brazilian Empire (1822–1889)

• Partido Liberal (Liberal Party) (1831–1889)
• Partido Farroupilha (Ragamuffin Party) (1832–1845)
• Partido Conservador (Conservative Party) (1836–1889)

First Republic and Vargas Era (1889–1945)

• Partido Republicano Paulista (Paulista Republican Party) (1873–1937)
• Partido Republicano Rio-Grandense (Rio-Grandense Republican Party) (1882–1937)
• Partido Republicano Mineiro (Minas Republican Party) (1888–1937)
• Partido Republicano Fluminense (Fluminense Republican Party) (1888–1937)
• Partido Democrático (Democratic Party) (1926–1934)
• Bloco Operário e Camponês (Workers' and Peasants' Bloc) (1927–1930)
• Frente Negra Brasileira (Brazilian Black Front) (1931–1938)
• Partido Socialista Brasileiro (Brazilian Socialist Party) (1932–1937)
• Ação Integralista Brasileira (Brazilian Integralist Action) (1932–1937)

Fourth Republic (1945–1964)

• União Democrática Nacional (National Democratic Union) (1945–1965)
• Partido Trabalhista Brasileiro (Brazilian Labor Party) (1945–1965)
• Partido Democrata Cristão (Christian Democratic Party) (1945–1965)
• Partido Social Democrático (Social Democratic Party) (1945–1965)
• Partido Socialista Brasileiro (Brazilian Socialist Party) (1945–1965)
• Partido Republicano (Republican Party) (1945–1965)
• Partido da Representação Popular (Popular Representation Party) (1945–1965)
• Partido Trabalhista Nacional (National Labor Party) (1945–1965)
• Partido Libertador (Liberation Party) (1945–1965)
• Partido Social Progressista (Social Progressive Party) (1946–1965)
• Partido Social Trabalhista (Social Labor Party) (1947–1965)
• Movimento Trabalhista Renovador (Renewal Labor Movement) (1960–1965)

Bipartisan system (1965–1979)

• Aliança Renovadora Nacional (National Renewal Alliance) (1966–1979)
• Movimento Democrático Brasileiro (Brazilian Democratic Movement) (1966–1979)

Return of the multiparty system (1979–)

• Partido Popular (Popular Party) (1979–1982)
• Partido Trabalhista Brasileiro (Brazilian Labor Party) (1980–2023)
• Partido Democrático Social (Democratic Social Party) (1980–1993)
• Democratas (Democrats) (1985–2022)
• Partido Democrata Cristão (Christian Democratic Party) (1985–1993)
• Partido Social Cristão (Social Christian Party) (1985–2023)
• Partido Municipalista Brasileiro (Brazilian Municipalist Party) (1985–1989)
• Partido Socialista Agrário e Renovador Trabalhista (Agrarian Socialist and Labor Renewal Party) (1985–1992)
• Partido Liberal (Liberal Party) (1985–2006)
• Partido Socialista (Socialist Party) (1985–1990)
• Partido Republicano Progressista (Progressive Republican Party) (1989–2019)
• Partido de Reedificação da Ordem Nacional (Party of the Reconstruction of the National Order) (1989–2006)
• Partido Geral dos Trabalhadores (Workers' General Party) (1993–2003)
• Partido Social Liberal (Social Liberal Party) (1994–2022)
• Partido Humanista da Solidariedade (Humanist Party of Solidarity) (1995–2019)
• Partido Pátria Livre (Free Fatherland Party) (2009–2018)
• Partido Republicano da Ordem Social (Republican Party of the Social Order) (2010–2023)
• Patriota (Patriot) (2011–2023)
  • Partido Ecológico Nacional (National Ecological Party) (2011–2017)

Heads of state

Monarchs

Kingdom of Brazil (1815–1822)

• Maria I (1815–1816)
• John VI (1816–1822)

Empire of Brazil (1822–1889)

• Pedro I (1822–1831)
• Pedro II (1831–1889)

Regents

• Provisional Triumviral Regency (1831)
• Permanent Triumviral Regency (1831–1835)
• Diogo Antônio Feijó (1835–1837)
• Pedro de Araújo Lima (1837–1840)

Presidents

• Deodoro da Fonseca (1889–1891)
• Floriano Peixoto (1891–1894)
• Prudente de Morais (Federal Republican Party) (1894–1898)
• Campos Sales ( Paulista Republican Party) (1898–1902)
• Rodrigues Alves ( Paulista Republican Party) (1902–1906)
• Afonso Pena ( Minas Republican Party) (1906–1909)
• Hermes da Fonseca (Conservative Republican Party) (1910–1914)
• Venceslau Brás ( Minas Republican Party) (1914–1918)
• Delfim Moreira ( Minas Republican Party) (1918–1919)
• Epitácio Pessoa ( Minas Republican Party) (1919–1922)
• Artur Bernardes ( Minas Republican Party) (1922–1926)
• Washington Luís ( Paulista Republican Party) (1926–1930)

• Getúlio Vargas (1930–1945, 1951–1954)

• Eurico Gaspar Dutra ( Social Democratic Party) (1946–1951)
• Café Filho ( Social Progressive Party) (1954–1955)
• Nereu Ramos ( Social Democratic Party) (1955–1956)
• Juscelino Kubitschek ( Social Democratic Party) (1956–1961)
• Jânio Quadros ( National Labor Party) (1961)
• João Goulart ( Brazilian Labor Party) (1961–1964)

• Humberto Castelo Branco ( National Renewal Alliance) (1964–1967)
• Artur da Costa e Silva ( National Renewal Alliance) (1967–1969)
• Emílio Garrastazu Médici ( National Renewal Alliance) (1969–1974)
• Ernesto Geisel ( National Renewal Alliance) (1974–1979)
• João Figueiredo ( National Renewal Alliance/ Democratic Social Party) (1979–1985)

• José Sarney ( Brazilian Democratic Movement Party) (1985–1990)
• Fernando Collor ( National Reconstruction Party) (1990–1992)
• Itamar Franco ( Brazilian Democratic Movement Party) (1992–1994)
• Fernando Henrique Cardoso ( Brazilian Social Democracy Party) (1995–2002)
• Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva ( Workers' Party) (2003–2010, 2023–)
• Dilma Rousseff ( Workers' Party) (2011–2016)
• Michel Temer ( Brazilian Democratic Movement) (2016–2018)
• Jair Bolsonaro ( Social Liberal Party/ Liberal Party) (2019–2022)