Of the total 165,352 voters in 2026, the majority are between 45 and 49 years old (15,778), followed by the age group between 40 and 44 years old (15,580). On the other hand, the smallest audience ranges from 16 (299) to 20 years old (2,396); this complete range totals 6,901 people.
The profile still has more women than men. The female public corresponds to 54% of the total number of prudent voters, according to TSE data. When looking at marital status, 4% of the public are married, while 43% are single.
In terms of education, the electorate with complete secondary education stands out, with 55,634 people, which corresponds to 33.65% of the total. Next are the population with completed higher education (37,452) and those with incomplete primary education (25,308).
The city has 1,461 illiterate voters and 1,896 voters who read and write.
This year, Brazilians go to the polls to choose president, state governor, state and federal deputies and senators.
Voting for the first round takes place on October 4th, and the second round, if necessary for Executive positions (president and governor), is scheduled for October 25th.
In the last presidential elections, in 2022, the prudential electorate was larger. The total was 180,860 people, 15,508 more voters than this year.
In relation to age group, the majority were people between 40 and 44 years old (17,028), followed by those between 35 and 39 years old (16,579).
The smallest audience also included teenagers aged 16 (582) to young people aged 20 (2,386); the total in this range was 8,067 people.
The female public also led the profile, with 54% of the total electorate. However, the percentage of married people was 47%, and the percentage of single people was 40%.
The level of school education followed the same pattern, with the majority of the public having completed secondary education (55,177), followed by an electorate with complete higher education (38,317) and incomplete primary education (33,498).
The illiterate rate was also higher, with 3,743 people. The people who read and wrote totaled 4,912.
In an interview with g1, Luís Antônio Barone, sociologist and professor at the Faculty of Science and Technology at Unesp in Presidente Prudente, observes that the age group of the Prudential electorate corresponds to the aging of the Brazilian population.
But what is the impact of this on voters and bringing this to the municipal territory of Presidente Prudente? In general, according to Barone, these voters tend to become more conservative, that is, less bold in their options. “This limits the extremes a little: the right and the left”, he comments.
The sociologist reinforces that this general thesis of sociology does not apply in all cases. He mentions that Brazil is experiencing a context of “extreme political polarization” and, above all, the extreme right calls the “good old days as a myth to be recovered, especially in the aspect of public security”.
“This tends to captivate more this electorate that is conservative, in the sense of not making major changes, is tired of a political regime that has not provided answers, which de facto democracy, a substantive democracy demands”, he says.
The profile of the young electorate is still a minority and, in Barone's view, this is due to demographic factors, the non-compulsory voting for young people between 16 and 18 years old and the discredit in the electoral institution.
“‘Why am I going to vote if none of this is going to solve my problems’? This reality of disbelief in the representative democratic system is a disincentive for younger people and this also applies to the electorate for which voting is mandatory, that is, those individuals aged 18 to 25, 30, who are also disillusioned with politics”, he explains.
Another aspect of Presidente Prudente's electorate profile is that women continue to be the majority. This fact is considered relevant and decisive, according to the sociologist and professor at Unesp.
For the specialist, in general, the female public tends to have greater social sensitivity in relation to public policies to combat misery and poverty, in addition to a different perspective in relation to violence and the dimension of gender-based violence.
“You see, an issue that is very important for this election, an issue that is very important to the Brazilian right, which is public security, we have a short circuit, so to speak, when we take general numbers in relation to the issue of female suffrage”, he analyzes.
Now, how this will actually affect Presidente Prudente, it is not possible to say, says Barone. He adds that he is unaware of any research that is raising the opinion of prudent female voters.
The educational issue is complex to be analyzed, according to Barone, given, “unfortunately, the low quality of Brazilian public education, especially in secondary education, whose premise in the guidelines and bases of Brazilian education should be based on the formation of the citizen”.
For the sociologist, on the part of the segment of the population with greater purchasing power, this does not happen because there is a privilege of private schools that will, in fact, train future entrants to universities. In this scenario, high school ends up being a “gigantic pre-university or pre-Enem course”, with the prospect of entering higher education.
“Of course, this affects the behavior of the electorate, so that, of course, with exceptions, with specific layers of the population having completed secondary education, the behavior of this electorate is not so discrepant in an electorate with lower school attendance, with less presence in formal education, such as, for example, those who have incomplete secondary education or even complete primary education”, he analyzes.
Now, in relation to a population with completed higher education, it is also expected, in theory, that this will be a voter with greater critical capacity, with greater capacity to evaluate the process and candidates, as the Unesp professor told g1.
"Unfortunately, we don't see this developing in such an intense way. We live in a context in which the electoral dispute, mainly mobilized through social networks, and there is a whole theorization about this, shows the prevalence of behavior that is not guided by reason, but by emotion", he comments.
For Barone, this scenario is a risk that Brazilians run, even taking into account that a voter with a higher education degree, theoretically, has more capacity to make a rational assessment.
“However, in a context in which choice is increasingly stimulated from passions, affections and emotions, rather than from reason, then we also have a short circuit there”, he says.
“An interpretation that is mine, but which, in fact, is obviously shared by other analysts, is that this short circuit characterizes our time a little and that it is a symptom of a crisis in the entire representative system, not just in Brazil, and it is clear that this will have repercussions on a micro scale or, in this case, on a municipal scale, which is Presidente Prudente”, he continues.
In this year's presidential elections, more than 150 million Brazilians will go to the polls to choose the representatives who will lead the country and states over the next four years.
In total, each voter will enter six votes in the electronic ballot box, divided between the Executive Branch and the Legislative Branch. At the national level, the dispute defines the Presidency of the Republic and the 513 seats in the Chamber of Deputies.
At the state level, governors, state deputies (or district deputies, in the Federal District) and two Senate seats per state will be chosen — this year, the House renews two thirds of its 81 seats.
Check the voting order at the ballot box:
Federal deputy (4 digits)
State or district deputy (5 digits)
Senator - 1st vacancy (3 digits)
Senator - 2nd vacancy (3 digits)
Governor and vice (2 digits)
President and vice (2 digits)
