Overview
- This week, the TSE’s Divulgacand portal published final registrations showing 268 candidates for federal deputy in Ceará competing for 22 seats across 25 parties.
- Major party slates in Ceará include PSDB’s 16 candidates with 68.75% men, the new party Missão’s six first-time candidates running outside any coalition with 66.6% men, and PCdoB’s two candidates joining a 14-party state coalition.
- Brazil’s election rules require parties to allocate at least 30% of proportional candidacies to each gender and the federal-deputy vote uses a four-digit ballot number that starts with the party prefix, factors that shape how lists are built.
- A g1 analysis of TSE data shows fewer candidacies since 2022 nationally (TSE: −32% state, −26% federal) and in Pernambuco a 35% drop in candidates using religious titles on their ballot names alongside a 2% rise in military-designated names.
- The posted lists change how voters can use simple cues like party, profession or title to choose among many names and will affect coalition bargaining and list strategies to be resolved before the October 4, 2026 first round.