Indirect presidential elections were held in

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on 11 April 1964 shortly after the U.S.-backed March coup carried out by the Brazilian military.

Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco Marshal Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco () (September 20, 1897 – July 18, 1967) was a Brazilian military leader and politician. He served as the first president of the Brazilian military dictatorship after the 1964 military coup d'etat. ...

was elected President by the

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, receiving 361 of the 366 votes cast.

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was elected Vice-President unopposed after

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withdrew his candidacy.

Background

Following the events of the coup in the same year,

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, the president, was deposed by allegations of leaving the country with no permission. Since João Goulart was already the

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, the President of the Chamber of Deputies, Ranieri Mazzili, assumed the post until a new president to be elected until 1965 (the end of João Goulart term) by the

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. The date of election, was scheduled by the first Institutional Act, amended by the Supreme Command of the Revolution, the de facto ruler over Brazil at that moment. The

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, now as an opposition party in parliament, like the National Democratic Union, agreed to elect Castelo Branco as president. Castelo Branco promised to preserve the Brazilian Democracy and fight against corruption and the crisis in the country. A new civil vice-president was elected on the same day.

Results

President

The election was virtually a single-runner election; some parliamentarians voted for Juarez Távora, as a protest vote

Vice President

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 with 256 of the 268 votes cast.

References

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