List of movements/Political Parties/Brazil

List of Political Parties

Active

Chamber of Deputies

Government

• Federação Brasil da Esperança (Brazil of Hope Federation)
  • Partido dos Trabalhadores (Workers' Party)
    • Factions
      • Articulação de Esquerda
      • Esquerda Popular Socialista (socialist Popular Left)
      • Resistência Socialista (Socialist Resistance)
      • Construindo um Novo Brasil (Building a New Brazil)
      • Democracia Socialista (Socialist Democracy)
      • Democratic Socialism (Socialism Under Construction)
      • O Trabalho (The Work)
  • Partido Comunista do Brasil (Communist Party of Brazil)
  • Partido Verde (Green Party)
• Movimento Democrático Brasileiro (Brazilian Democratic Movement)
• Partido Social Democrático (Social Democratic Party)
• Partido Democrático Trabalhista (Democratic Labor Party)
• Partido Socialista Brasileiro (Brazilian Socialist Party)
• Federação PSOL REDE (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)
• Solidariedade (Solidarity)

Opposition

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

Independents

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

Extraparliamentary

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

Historical

Empire of Brazil (1822-1889)

• Partido Brasileiro (Brazilian Party) (1822-1831)
• Partido Português (Portuguese Party) (1822-1831)
• Partido Liberal Exaltado (Exalted Liberal Party) (1831-1840)
• Partido Liberal Moderado (Moderate Liberal Party) (1831-1840)
• Partido Regressista (Reactionary Party) (1831-1840)
• Partido Restaurador (Restorationist Party) (1831-1834)
• Partido Farroupilha (Ragamuffin Party) (1832-1845)
• Partido Conservador (Conservative Party) (1838-1889)
• Partido Liberal (Liberal Party) (1838-1889)
• Liga Progressista (Progressive League) (1864-1868)
• Partido Republicano Paulista (Paulista Republican Party) (1873-1937)
• Partido Católico (Catholic Party) (1874-1876)

First Republic and Vargas Era (1889-1945)

• Partido Católico (Catholic Party) (1890-1894, 1909-1911)
• Partido Republicano Federal (Federal Republican Party) (1893-1898)
• Partido Republicano Conservador (Conservative Republican Party) (1910-1930)
• Partido Republicano Feminino (Feminine Republican Party) (1910-?)
• Partido Comunista Brasileiro (Brazilian Communist Party) (1922-1930s)
• Bloco Operário e Camponês (Workers' and Peasants' Bloc) (1927-1930)
• Ação Imperial Patrianovista Brasileira (Brazilian Imperial Patrianovist Action) (1928-1937)
• Aliança Liberal (Liberal Alliance) (1929-1930)
• Frente Negra Brasileira (Brazilian Black Front) (1931-1938)
• Liga Comunista Internacionalista (Internationalist Communist League) (1931-1937)
• Partido Nacionalista Radical (Radical Nationalist Party) (1931-?)
• Ação Integralista Brasileira (Brazilian Integralist Action) (1932-1938)
• Partido Socialista Brasileiro (Brazilian Socialist Party) (1932-1937)
• Partido Socialista Proletário do Brasil (Proletarian Socialist Party of Brazil) (1934-1937)

Regional

• Partido Liberal Catarinense (Catarinense Liberal Party) (1927-1937)
• Partido Liberal do Pará (Liberal Party of Pará) (1931-1937)
• Partido Economista de Pernambuco (Economist Party of Pernambuco) (1932-1937)
• Partido Liberal Mato-Grossense (Mato-Grossense Liberal Party) (1933-1937)
• Partido Liberal Paranaense (Paranaense Liberal Party) (1933-1937)

Minas Gerais

• Partido Republicano Mineiro (Minas Repulican Party) (1888-1937)
• Partido Republicano Liberal (Liberal Republican Party) (1913-1914)
• Partido Progressista de Minas Gerais (Progressive Party of Minas Gerais) (1933-1937)

Rio de Janeiro and the Federal District

• Partido Republicano Fluminense (Fluminense Republican Party) (1888-1937)
• Partido Socialista Fluminense (Fluminense Socialist Party) (1932-1937)
• Partido Economista do Brasil (Economist Party of Brazil) (1932-1933)
• Partido Radical Nacionalista (Nationalist Radical Party) (1932-?)
• Partido Democrático Socialista do Distrito Federal (Democratic Socialist Party of the Federal District) (1933-1937)
• Partido Libertador Popular Carioca (Carioca Popular Liberation Party) (1933-1937)
• União Progressista Fluminense (Fluminense Progressive Union) (1933-1937)
• Partido Popular Radical do Rio de Janeiro (Radical Popular Party of Rio de Janeiro) (1933-1937)
• Partido Independente 9 de Julho (9th of July Independent Party) (1933-1937)
• Partido Liberal Carioca (Carioca Liberal Party) (1933-1937)
• Partido Liberal Independente (Independent Liberal Party) (1933-?)

Rio Grande do Sul

• Partido Republicano Rio-Grandense (Rio-Grandense Republican Party) (1882-1937)
• Partido Federalista do Rio Grande do Sul (Federalist Party of Rio Grande do Sul) (1892-1928)
• Partido Libertador (Liberation Party) (1928-1937)

São Paulo

• Partido Republicano Paulista (Paulista Republican Party) (1873-1937)
• Partido Democrático de São Paulo (Democratic Party of São Paulo) (1925-1934)
• Partido Socialista Brasileiro de São Paulo (Brazilian Socialist Party of São Paulo) (1933-1937)
• Partido Liberal Paulista (Paulista Liberal Party) (1933-1937)
• Partido da Lavoura de São Paulo (Farmers' Party of São Paulo) (1933-1937)
• Partido Constitucionalista de São Paulo (Constitutionalist Party of São Paulo) (1934-1937)

Fourth Republic (1946-1964)

• 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 Republicano Trabalhista (Labour Republican Party) (1945-1965)
• Partido Comunista Brasileiro (Brazilian Communist Party) (1945-banned in 1947)
• Partido Nacional Evolucionista (National Evolutionist Party) (1945-1948)
• Partido Agrário Nacional (National Agrarian Party) (1945-1946)
• Partido da Representação Popular (Popular Representation Party) (1945-1965)
• Partido Popular Sindicalista (Popular Syndicalist Party) (1945-1946)
• 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 Labour Movement) (1960-1965)
• Partido da Boa Vontade (Good Will Party) (1964-1965)

Bipartisanship in the Military Dictatorship (1965-1979)

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

Return of the Multiparty System and New Republic (1979-)

• Partido Popular (Popular Party) (1979-1982)
• Partido Trabalhista Brasileiro (Brazilian Labor Party) (1979-2023)
• Partido Democrático Social (Democratic Social Party) (1980-1993)
• Partido Municipalista Comunitário (Communitarian Municipalist Party) (1984-1990)
• Partido Humanista (Humanist Party) (1984-1991)
• Democratas (Democrats) (1985-2022)
• Partido do Povo Brasileiro (Brazilian People's Party) (1985-1990)
• Partido Democrata Cristão (Christian Democratic Party) (1985-1993)
• Partido Social Cristão (Social Christian Party) (1985-2023)
• Partido Nacionalista (Nationalist Party) (1985-1990)
• Partido Nacionalista Democrático (Democratic Nationalist Party) (1985-?)
• Partido Municipalista Brasileiro (Brazilian Municipalist Party) (1985-1990)
• Partido Socialista Agrário Renovador Trabalhista (Agrarian Socialist Labor Renewal Party) (1985-1990)
• Partido Liberal (Liberal Party) (1985-2006)
  • Partido Liberal (1985-1998)
• Partido Democrático Independente (Independent Democratic Party) (1985-1990)
• Partido Reformador Trabalhista (Labour Reform Party) (1985-?)
• Partido Socialista (Socialist Party) (1985-1990)
• Partido Renovador Progressista (Progressive Renewal Party) (1985-?)
• Partido Comunitário Nacional (National Communitarian Party) (1985-1992)
• Partido da Nova República (Party of the New Republic) (1985-1986)
• 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 da Frente Socialista (Socialist Front Party) (1992-?)
• Partido Progressista (Progressive Party) (1993-1995)
• Partido Progressista Reformador (Reformist Progressive Party) (1993-1995)
• Partido Social Liberal (Social Liberal Party) (1994-2022)
  • Partido Social Liberal (1994-2018)
  • Partido Social Liberal (2018-2020)
• 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 (2011-2023)
  • Partido Ecológico Nacional (National Ecological Party) (2011-2017)

Former

• Agir
  • Partido da Reconstrução Nacional (National Reconstruction Party) (1989-2000)
• Cidadania
  • Partido Comunista Brasileiro (Brazilian Communist Party) (1985-1992)
  • Partido Popular Socialista (Popular Socialist Party) (1992-2019)
• Democracia Cristã
  • Partido Social Democrático Cristão (Christian Social Democratic Party) (1995-2017)
• Podemos
  • Partido Trabalhista Nacional (National Labor Party) (1997-2017)
• Republicanos
  • Partido Municipalista Renovador (Municipalist Renovation Party) (2003-2006)
  • Partido Republicano Brasileiro (Brazilian Republican Party) (2006-2019)

List of Political Movements

• Associação Brasileira de Ateus e Agnósticos (Brazilian Association of Atheists and Agnostics)
• Associação Brasileira de Lésbicas, Gays, Bissexuais, Travestis, Transexuais e Intersexos (Brazilian Association of Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals, Transvestites, Transsexuals and Intersex)
• Central de Movimentos Populares (Centre of Popular Movements)
• Coordenação Anarquista Brasileira (Brazilian Anarchist Coordination)
• Escola Sem Partido (School Without Parties)
• Federação Anarquista do Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro Anarchist Federation)
• Frente Integralista Brasileira (Brazilian Integralist Front)
• Grito dos Excluídos (Yell of the Excluded)
• Movimento Brasil Livre (Free Brazil Movement)
• Movimento de Libertação dos Sem Terra (Landless' Liberation Movement)
• Movimento de Mulheres Camponesas (Peasant Women's Movement)
• Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem Teto (Homeless Workers' Movement)
• Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (Landless Workers' Movement)
• Movimento Nacional da População de Rua (Homeless People's National Movement)
• Movimento Passe Livre (Free Fare Movement)
• Movimento Revolucionário 8 de Outubro (8th of October Revolutionary Movement)
• Nova Resistência (New Resistance)
• O Sul É o Meu País (The South Is My Country)
• Professores Contra o Escola Sem Partido (Teachers Against School Without Parties)
• Revolução Periférica (Peripheral Revolution)

List of Think Tanks

• Centro Edelstein de Pesquisas Sociais (Edelstein Center for Social Research)
• Fundação Perseu Abramo (Perseu Abramo Foundation)
• Instituto Brasileiro de Ação Democrática (Brazilian Institute for Democratic Action) (1959-1963)
• Instituto de Estudos Empresariais (Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies)
• Instituto de Pesquisas e Estudos Sociais (Institute for Social Research and Studies) (1961-1972)
• Instituto Liberdade (Liberty Institute)
• Livres (Free)
• Movimento Brasil Livre (Free Brazil Movement)

List of People

List of 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)

List of Regents

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

List of Presidents

First Republic (1889-1930)

• 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)
• Nilo Peçanha (Fluminense Republican Party) (1909-1910)
• 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)

Second and Third Republics (1930-1946)

• Provisional Governing Junta (1930)
• Getúlio Vargas (1930-1945)
• José Linhares (1945-1946)

Fourth Republic (1946-1964)

• Eurico Gaspar Dutra ( Social Democratic Party) (1946-1951)
• Getúlio Vargas ( Brazilian Labor Party) (1951-1954)
• 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)
• Ranieri Mazzilli ( Social Democratic Party) (1961, 1964)
• João Goulart ( Brazilian Labor Party) (1961-1964)

Military Dictatorship (1964-1985)

• Humberto Castelo Branco ( National Renewal Alliance) (1964-1967)
• Artur da Costa e Silva ( National Renewal Alliance) (1967-1969)
• Military Junta (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)

Sixth Republic (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)

List of Prime Ministers

Empire of Brazil (1847-1889)

• Manuel Alves Branco (Liberal Party) (1847-1848)
• Francisco de Paula Sousa e Melo (Liberal Party) (1848)
• Pedro de Araújo Lima (Conservative Party/Progressive League/Liberal Party) (1848-1849, 1857-1858, 1862-1864, 1865-1866)
• José da Costa Carvalho (Conservative Party) (1849-1852)
• Joaquim José Rodrigues Torres (Conservative Party) (1852-1853, 1868-1870)
• Honório Hermeto Carneiro Leão (Conservative Party) (1853-1856)
• Luís Alves de Lima e Silva (Conservative Party) (1856-1857, 1861-1862, 1875-1878)
• Antônio Paulino Limpo de Abreu (Conservative Party) (1858-1859)
• Ângelo Moniz da Silva Ferraz (Conservative Party) (1859-1861)
• Francisco José Furtado (Liberal Party) (1864-1865)
• Zacarias de Góis e Vasconcelos (Progressive League/Conservative Party) (1862, 1864, 1866-1868)
• José Antônio Pimenta Bueno (Conservative Party) (1870-1871)
• José Maria da Silva Paranhos (Conservative Party) (1871-1875)
• João Lins Vieira Cansanção de Sinimbu (Liberal Party) (1878-1880)
• José Antônio Saraiva (Liberal Party) (1880-1882, 1885)
• Martinho Álvares da Silva Campos (Liberal Party) (1882)
• João Lustosa da Cunha Paranaguá (Liberal Party) (1882-1883)
• Lafayette Rodrigues Pereira (Liberal Party) (1883-1884)
• Manuel Pinto de Sousa Dantas (Liberal Party) (1884-1885)
• João Maurício Wanderley (Conservative Party) (1885-1888)
• João Alfredo Correia de Oliveira (Conservative Party) (1888-1889)
• Afonso Celso de Assis Figueiredo (Liberal Party) (1889)

Parliamentary Republic (1961-1963)

• Tancredo Neves ( Social Democratic Party) (1961-1962)
• Francisco Brochado da Rocha ( Social Democratic Party) (1962)
• Hermes Lima ( Brazilian Labor Party) (1962-1963)

List of Presidential Candidates

Runner-ups

• Getúlio Vargas (Liberal Alliance, 1930)
• Borges de Medeiros (Rio-Grandense Republican Party, 1934)
• Eduardo Gomes ( National Democratic Union, 1945 & 1950)
• Juarez Távora ( National Democratic Union/ Christian Democratic Party, 1955 & 1964)
• Henrique Teixeira Lott ( Social Democratic Party, 1960)
• Ulysses Guimarães ( Brazilian Democratic Movement, 1974)
• Euler Bentes Monteiro ( Brazilian Democratic Movement, 1978)
• Paulo Maluf ( Democratic Social Party, 1985)
• Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva ( Workers' Party; 1989, 1994 & 1998)
• José Serra ( Brazilian Social Democracy Party, 2002 & 2010)
• Geraldo Alckmin ( Brazilian Social Democracy Party, 2006)
• Aécio Neves ( Brazilian Social Democracy Party, 2014)
• Fernando Haddad ( Workers' Party, 2018)
• Jair Bolsonaro ( Liberal Party, 2022)

Third-place Candidates

• Minervino de Oliveira (Workers' and Peasants' Bloc, 1930)
• Pedro Aurélio de Góis Monteiro (1934)
• Iedo Fiúza ( Brazilian Communist Party, 1945)
• Cristiano Machado ( Social Democratic Party, 1950)
• Adhemar de Barros ( Social Progressive Party, 1955 & 1960)
• Eurico Gaspar Dutra ( Social Democratic Party, 1964)
• Leonel Brizola ( Democratic Labor Party, 1989)
• Enéas Carneiro ( Party of the Reconstruction of the National Order, 1994)
• Ciro Gomes ( Popular Socialist Party/ Democratic Labour Party, 1998 & 2018)
• Anthony Garotinho ( Brazilian Socialist Party, 2002)
• Heloísa Helena ( Socialism and Liberty Party, 2006)
• Marina Silva ( Green Party/ Brazilian Socialist Party, 2010 & 2014)
• Simone Tebet ( Brazilian Democratic Movement, 2022)