1962 Brazilian parliamentary election

Parliamentary elections were held in Brazil on 7 October 1962. Voter turnout was 79.6%.

Results

Chamber of Deputies

Party	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
Social Democratic Party	2,225,693	18.3	79	+10
Brazilian Labour Party	1,722,546	14.2	63	+17
National Democratic Union	1,604,743	13.2	55	+12
Republican Party	269,155	2.2	6	–8
Social Progressive Party	124,337	1.0	6	–1
Social Labour Party	83,421	0.7	2	0
Party of Popular Representation	70,435	0.6	1	–1
Labour Renewal Movement	71,657	0.6	1	New
Christian Democratic Party	54,031	0.4	1	–5
Liberator Party	26,379	0.2	2	0
PTB-PSB	778,457	6.4	193	+58
PSD-UDN	701,892	5.8
PDC-PRT-UDN	699,211	5.8
PSD-PSP	654,835
PTN-MTR	366,951	3.0
PL-PRP-PDC-UDN	286,155	2.4
PSD-PSP-PDC-PTN-PSB	294,458	2.4
PTB-Republican Party-PL	273,972	2.3
UDN-PDC-PTN	241,194	2.0
PTB-Republican Party-PRP	236,333	1.9
PSD-PDC	141,116	1.2
PSD-UDN-PDC	135,070	1.1
PSD-PST	119,841	1.0
PTB-UDN-PSP-PRP	111,371	0.9
PSD-PTN	102,959	0.8
MTR-PSB-PST	96,308	0.8
UDN-PSP-PDC	83,779	0.7
PTB-PSD	83,516	0.7
PSP-PTN-PRT-PR-MTR-PSB-UDN-PL	83,151	0.7
UDN-PTB-PST	66,311	0.5
PSB-PST	61,849	0.5
PSD-Republican Party	59,259	0.5
Others	120,047	1.0
Invalid/blank votes	2,615,038	–	–	–
Total	14,747,221	100	409	+83
Registered voters/turnout	18,528,847	79.6	–	–
Source: Nohlen

Senate

Party	Votes	%	Seats
Brazilian Labour Party	2,694,308	11.9	12
Social Democratic Party	2,222,547	9.8	16
National Democratic Union	2,182,647	9.7	8
Social Labour Party	642,801	2.8	0
Labour Renewal Movement	538,789	2.4	1
National Labor Party	431,284	1.9	2
Brazilian Socialist Party	318,369	1.4	1
Christian Democratic Party	269,560	1.2	1
Liberator Party	191,685	0.8	1
Rural Labour Party	185,909	0.8
Social Progressive Party	157,029	0.7	1
Coalitions	10,339,539	45.8	–
Republican Party			1
Independents			1
Invalid/blank votes	8,887,860	–	–
Total	29,470,851	100	45
Registered voters/turnout	18,496,335		–
Source: Nohlen