Women and youngsters are the majority of electors who are going to vote on October 1st. The pool was carried on by Superior Electoral Court (TSE). From 125.913.479 electors entitled to voting, 64.882.283 are women, about 51, 53% of voters’ total number. Young voters’ ages range from 25 to 34 years-old and they are 23, 96% of electors’ total (30. 127.037 voters).

If one compares it with 2002 elections, there is a rise of almost 1% in the number of female electors. Women lead in all voters’ age ranges, with 4.829.813 between 18 and 20, 5.425.021; between 25 and 34; 13.128.745 between 35 e 44 and 13.899.364 between 45 and 59 years-old. The same happens with electors with 16 and 17 and from 70 to 79 for whom voting is not compulsory. In the first case female electors reach 1.564.697 In the second, there are 2.954.133 women among old people who vote.

Education

Brazilian electors’ education degree has also improved from 2002 to now. In addition to the reduction in the number of electors declaring they can only read and write, which fell from 22.6 millions to 21.3 million (16.92% of elector’s number), the number of electors declaring they are analphabets during electoral registration fell from 8.34 million to 8.27 million (6.57%) of electors. The number of voters who have graduated or are yet to graduate reach 7.11 million, which represents 5.65% of elector’s numbers.

Although electors with incomplete elementary school still lead the indicator - almost 43.8 million people, 34.77% of elector’s total number, there was a decrease in the percentage of voters who have finished elementary school (from 8.15% to 7.88% between 2002 and 2006) followed by a substantial increase in the group of voters who haven’t fully accomplished high school education (the number raised from 13.99% to 16.88% at the time) and those who have finished it (from 9.85% to 11.18%).

TSE pools on education degree also point out women leadership in more elevate education stages. Women are 58.27% of electors who finished high school and overdo men in the number of voters who have graduated or are to graduate in college (there are rough 3.8 million women and just 3.2 million men). Men take the lead between voters who declared themselves as being functional analphabets (they can only read and write) or incomplete Elementary School.

Electors’ distribution

2006 elections will rely on support by 3.073 electoral zones and 380.945 electoral sessions, scattered over 5.565 Brazilian towns and 93 countries. The 86.360 electors living abroad will be entitled to vote only for president of the Republic. The biggest Brazilian electoral college is still São Paulo state, with rough 28 million electors (22.27% of voters’ total number), and followed by Minas Gerais (13, 7 million-10.86% of the total number of electors). Smaller electoral colleges are in the North Region, Roraima having the smaller elector’s number (233.6 thousand - 0.19% of electors’ total number), followed by Amapá (360.6 thousand - 0.29%) and Acre (412.8 thousand - 0.33%).