Eleições para Deputado Federal e Estadual na Fronteira Oeste em 2014: Uma análise comparativa da votação dos partidos

Abstract

The present paper analyzes the voting of the parties in the West Frontier of Rio Grande do Sul, the elections to the House of Representatives and the Legislative Assembly in 2014. So, we need to understand how the behavior of voters was characterized and how the proportional representation system works. Thus, we used the quantitative methodology, based on the analysis of the electoral data of the election for Federal and State Deputy of Rio Grande do Sul in 2014. That way, the votes directed to the political parties in the region were analyzed. The parties' votes were compared in the disputes of the two Legislative houses analyzed, in order to determine if there is a pattern of partisan vote in the municipalities of the West Frontier of Rio Grande do Sul. Also, to carry out the analysis, correlations were made of the parties' votes in the municipalities and the variation between the voting of the political parties in the election to the Federal Deputy and State Representative was calculated. In this way, we work with the hypothesis that party voting characteristics will not be observed in the votes for Federal and State Deputy, due to the low party identification, which strengthens the practice of personalism.