List of political parties in Brazil Totally Explained

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This article lists political parties in Brazil. Brazil has a multi-party system with numerous political parties sharing the vote, in which no single party has a chance of gaining power alone, so that they must work with each other to form coalition governments. The ideologies of the different parties should be taken with a grain of salt, as many of them are in fact loose coalitions of local and individual leaderships.
Above the broad range of political parties in Brazilian Parliament since there's no election threshold, the Workers' Party, the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, the Brazilian Social Democracy Party and the Democrats together control the absolute majority of seats in the Senate and Chamber of Deputies, and effectively have dominated Brazilian political landscape since the returning of democracy in 1985. Smaller parties often make alliances with at least one of these four major parties.

Summary of parliamentary parties

Brazilian Communist Party (Partido Comunista Brasileiro, PCB)
Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (Partido do Movimento Democrático Brasileiro, PMDB)
Brazilian Labour Party (Partido Trabalhista Brasileiro, PTB)
Brazilian Labour Renewal Party (Partido Renovador Trabalhista Brasileiro, PRTB)
Brazilian Republican Party (Partido Republicano Brasileiro, PRB)
Brazilian Social Democracy Party (Partido da Social Democracia Brasileira, PSDB)
Brazilian Socialist Party (Partido Socialista Brasileiro, PSB)
Christian Labour Party (Partido Trabalhista Cristão, PTC)
Communist Party of Brazil (Partido Comunista do Brasil, PCdoB)
Democratic Labour Party (Partido Democrático Trabalhista, PDT)
Democrats (Democratas, DEM)
Green Party (Partido Verde, PV)
Humanist Party of Solidarity (Partido Humanista da Solidariedade, PHS)
Labour Party of Brazil (Partido Trabalhista do Brasil, PTB)
Party of National Mobilization (Partido da Mobilização Nacional, PMN)
Progressive Party (Partido Progressista, PP)
Republic Party (Partido da República, PR)
Social Christian Party (Partido Social Cristão, PSC)
Socialist Popular Party (Partido Popular Socialista, PPS)
Workers' Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores, PT)

Since 1982 Brazilian political parties are given a number to make easier for illiterate people to vote. Initially, it was a one-digit number: 1 for PDS, 2 for PDT, 3 for PT, 4 for PTB, and 5 for PMDB. When it became clear that there was going to be more than nine parties, a two-digit number was assigned, with the first five parties having a "1" added to their former one-digit number (PDS becoming number 11, PDT 12, PT 13, PTB 14, and PMDB 15). Often political parties change their names but retain their number.

Major parties

Siglum	Name (Portuguese)	Name (English)	Ideology	Number	Members
PT	Partido dos Trabalhadores	Workers' Party	Democratic socialism, Social democracy	13	1 110 323
PMDB	Partido do Movimento Democrático Brasileiro	Brazilian Democratic Movement Party	Centrism, Populism	15	2 025 781
PSDB	Partido da Social Democracia Brasileira	Brazilian Social Democracy Party	Centrism, Social democracy	45	1 142 588
DEM	Democratas	Democrats	Christian democracy, Liberal conservatism	25	944 507

Medium-size parties

Siglum	Name (Portuguese)	Name (English)	Ideology	Number	Members
PR	Partido da República	Republic Party	Populism, Centrism	22	682 051
PP	Partido Progressista	Progressive Party	Conservatism, Liberal conservatism	11	1 230 395
PSB	Partido Socialista Brasileiro	Brazilian Socialist Party	Democratic socialism, Social democracy	40	361 488
PDT	Partido Democrático Trabalhista	Democratic Labour Party	Democratic socialism, Populism	12	975 401
PTB	Partido Trabalhista Brasileiro	Brazilian Labour Party	Centrism, Populism	14	955 588
PPS	Partido Popular Socialista	Socialist People´s Party	Democratic socialism, Social democracy	23	383 798
PV	Partido Verde	Green Party	Green politics	43	219 610
PCdoB	Partido Comunista do Brasil	Communist Party of Brazil	Communism	65	209 908
PSC	Partido Social Cristão	Christian Social Party	Christian democracy, Populism	20	234 194

Minor parties

Siglum	Name (Portuguese)	Name (English)	Ideology	Number	Members
PSOL	Partido Socialismo e Liberdade	Socialism and Freedom Party	Socialism, Trotskyism	50	22 764
PMN	Partido da Mobilização Nacional	Party of National Mobilization	Nationalism, Centrism	33	173 363
PTC	Partido Trabalhista Cristão	Christian Labour Party	Christian democracy, Populism	36	127 811
PHS	Partido Humanista da Solidariedade	Humanist Party of Solidarity	Centrism, Christian democracy	31	93 920
PSDC	Partido Social Democrata Cristão	Christian Social Democratic Party	Christian democracy	27	110 269
PTdoB	Partido Trabalhista do Brasil	Labour Party of Brazil	Centrism, Populism	70	114 661
PRB	Partido Republicano Brasileiro	Brazilian Republican Party	Centrism, Populism	10	92 332
PRP	Partido Republicano Progressista	Progressive Republican Party	Populism, Conservatism	44	168 472
PSL	Partido Social Liberal	Social Liberal Party	Social liberalism, Centrism, Populism	17	144 495
PRTB	Partido Renovador Trabalhista Brasileiro	Brazilian Labour Renewal Party	Centrism, Populism	28	76 240
PTN	Partido Trabalhista Nacional	National Labour Party	Centrism, Populism	19	81 533
PSTU	Partido Socialista dos Trabalhadores Unificado	United Socialist Workers' Party	Trotskyism	16	13 202
PCB	Partido Comunista Brasileiro	Brazilian Communist Party	Communism	21	14 790
PCO	Partido da Causa Operária	Workers' Cause Party	Trotskyism	29	3 112

Non-registered parties

Waiting for registration in the Electoral Court (Tribunal Superior Eleitoral)

Siglum	Name (Portuguese)	Name (English)	Ideology
PF	Partido Federalista	Federalist Party	Federalism, Liberal conservatism, Libertarianism
PH	Partido Humanista	Humanist Party	Humanist Movement
LIBER	Libertários	Libertarians	Libertarianism
PCML	Partido Comunista Marxista-Leninista	Marxist-Leninist Communist Party	Communist
PNC	Partido Nacional do Consumidor	National Consumers' Party	Consumer protection
PSN	Partido da Solidariedade Nacional	National Solidarity Party	Centrism

Recently absorbed or merged parties

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