The female bench in the Chamber of Deputies grew in this Sunday's elections (4), but women remain an absolute minority among parliamentarians. There were 109 elected to the House's 513 seats, compared to 90 in 2022. As a result, the proportion between men and women is 21.2% compared to 17.5% in the last election.
The 21.1% growth, with 18 more deputies, makes the next legislature the record holder for women in the history of the Chamber. Despite this, the number is still far below the proportion of women in the Brazilian population, which is 51.5% according to the IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics).
Unlike the Senate, where right-wing women led to an 80% increase, going from ten senators at the beginning of 2023 to 18 who should take up positions next year, the Chamber's deputies are further to the left than the entire House.
Among the deputies who will take office next year, 52 are right-wing. The left won 47 seats and another 10 will be occupied by centrist deputies.
Thus, proportionally, the female bench will be 48% right-wing, 43% left-wing and 9% center. The division shows party stability in relation to previous elections, with a slight shrinkage of the center. In 2022, the proportion of female deputies on the right was the same; those on the left were 41% and those on the center were 11%.
This means that the female bench is significantly more to the left than the total composition of the Chamber, where 59.1% of parliamentarians are on the right, 24.2% on the left and 16.8% in the center.
The discrepancy becomes even greater when only men are considered. According to data from the TSE, of the 404 men elected, 62% are from right-wing parties and 19% from the left. The center's share is also 19%.
To classify the parties, the report considered the GPS Partidário 2026, an analysis that locates Brazilian acronyms from left to right based on the practical life of politics, not what each party declares to be.
On the left, the PT leads the female voters with 25 names. The PSOL, which had congresswoman Erika Hilton achieving the record as the most voted woman in history, elected seven others. The list continues with PC do B (7 women), PSB (5) and PV (2). PDT and Rede did not elect deputies.
In total, the center managed to elect 10 women, five from the MDB and another five from the PSD. Avante and Solidariedade did not win seats.
On the right, the PL was the leader in elected deputies, with 22, followed by União Brasil, with 8. Podemos elected 7 candidates, PP, 6 and Republicans, 5. Novo elected two others, and the PSDB and PRD elected one each. The Mission did not elect deputies.
In the Senate, the election of right-wing parliamentarians contributed to the expansion of the female bench, which became 80% larger than the one that began the previous legislature, in 2023. On Sunday (4), 12 senators were elected, a record for female participation in the House, who will serve, with another six women who are already in office, reaching 22.2% of the total seats.
The new composition of the Chamber of Deputies shows that voting was concentrated on right-wing parties. Among the parties in the progressive camp, only the PT had a significant election of federal deputies.
The PL elected the largest bench, with 121 federal deputies. This is the acronym of presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro, who finished the first round of the election ahead of President Lula (PT), with 47% of the votes compared to 45% for the PT member.
The PT, party of the president and candidate for re-election, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, is the second party with the most elected federal deputies: 70. Next comes União Brasil, with 46. The PSD is next, with 43 elected, followed by PP and Republicans, with 41 each.
The MDB elected 36 deputies, while Podemos had 27. Next, with more elected representatives, came the PSB (Brazilian Socialist Party), with 15; PSOL (Partido Socialismo e Liberdade), with 14; PCdoB (Communist Party of Brazil) and PSDB (Brazilian Social Democracy Party), with 11 each; and New, with 10.
The PV completes the 513 seats, with 7 elected; PDT, with 6; Avante and PRD, with 5 each; Solidarity, with 2; and Network and Mission, with 1 each
