Um Recorte Das Eleições Municipais No Brasil: Candidaturas E Desempenho Eleitoral Das Mulheres

Abstract

The aim of this article is to analyze the candidacies and electoral performance of women in the 2020 municipal elections in the cities of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. This election is relevant because it is the first to occur after two changes in electoral rules: the end of coalitions for proportional elections and the creation of the Special Fund for Campaign Financing (SFCF). Both changes establish new requirements for political parties with regard to filling at least 30% of their lists with women and the distribution of financial resources to female candidates. Considering these new rules, the expectation is that the application of quotas will increase not only the number of female candidates, but also the number of elected ones, and the distribution of resources between candidacies of men and women will be less discrepant. From the data of the Superior Electoral Court on candidacies, electoral results and campaign financing in the 2016 and 2020 municipal elections, I show that there was no substantive increase in female candidacies and the Party Fund and the SFCF increased women's income, however their amounts were far from equalizing the conditions of dispute between the sexes.