2014 Brazilian general election 2014 Brazilian general election General elections were held in Brazil on 5 October 2014 to elect the President, the National Congress, state governors and state legislatures. As no candidate in the presidential and several gubernatorial elections received more than 50% of the vote, a second-round runoff was held on 26 October. In the first round of voting Dilma Rousseff won 41.6% of the vote, ahead of Aécio Neves with 33.6% and Marina Silva with 21.3%. Rousseff and Neves contested the runoff on 26 October and Rousseff won re-election by a narrow margin, 51.6% to Neves' 48.4%. Incumbent President Dilma Rousseff
Dilma Rousseff propaganda for sexual options". In 2014, during the presidential elections, President Dilma Rousseff supported the criminalization of homophobia. Since 25 May 2012, Rousseff's government faced a number of strikes by public employees, especially university professors. Rousseff was inflexible, and the strike left millions of students without classes for months. According to O Globo, a Rio de Janeiro newspaper, she believes private sector jobs should be prioritized by her government's policies. Rousseff was ranked fourth in "Forbes"' 2014 list of the most powerful women in the world, and the second most powerful in 2013. In 2015 she was the 7th, and