Brazil election 2022: voting intention by religion

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva became eligible to run in the 2022 Brazilian general elections in May 2021 after the Federal Supreme Court annulled all of Lula's convictions linked to the case Lava Jato. Now that the former president has regained his political rights, a survey carried out months before the elections shows that he could seek a new term. Little more than half of the Catholics surveyed intended to vote for him, whereas only 27 percent of them claimed that they would vote for Jair Bolsonaro. The current president is more popular among Evangelist Brazilians, with a voting intention of 49 percent. Furthermore, while 52 of the Spiritualists voters intended to cast a ballot for Lula, senator Simone Tebet had its largest voting intention in this group: seven percent.

Learn more in this Statista's study on the 2022 Brazilian elections.

Voting intention for the presidential elections if the elections were today in Brazil as of August 2022, by religion

Characteristic	Lula (PT)	Jair Bolsonaro (PL)	Ciro Gomes (PDT)	Simone Tebet (MDB)	Vera (PSTU)	Other	Blank/null/none	Do not know
Catholic	52%	27%	8%	2%	1%	1%	6%	2%
Evangelist	32%	49%	6%	2%	1%	-	5%	3%
Spiritualist/Kardecist	52%	26%	7%	7%	1%	2%	3%	1%

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Release date

August 2022

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Region

Brazil

Survey time period

August 16 to 18, 2022

Number of respondents

5,744 respondents

Age group

16 years and older

Method of interview

Face-to-face interview

Supplementary notes

Original statement posed on the survey: "If the presidential elections were today and these were the candidates ____ , for which one would you vote?"
This statistic displays one of the selection of candidates out of a list of four different scenarios studied by the source.
Candidates other than the displayed were grouped under the category "Other".
The wording chosen for this statistic may slightly differ from the original.

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