Filiações e ideologia partidária nos municípios do Pará

Abstract

This paper proposes to conduct a study in the area of Political Science by exploring socioeconomic data from 144 municipalities in Pará and relating them to the membership data updated monthly by the Superior Electoral Court according to their ideological positions on the right-center-left wing scale. To achieve this result, first of all, it was important to seek information from the main sources of literature in Brazil about data from recent years on party membership in municipalities stratified by population, GDP, geographic location, favorable times for membership, and the definition of party ideology by spectrum. In the second part, content on party membership in Pará was explored, presenting a brief history of the three parties with the most members: “MDB”, “PT” and “PSDB”, such as their trajectory of rise, their important personalities, the presence of permanent/temporary party directories and how these can influence the infiltration of new members in the municipalities. In the last part, the work explores data from the IBGE in order to divide the municipalities into large, medium and small population sizes; high, medium and low Gross Domestic Product; Mesoregion: Baixo Amazonas, Marajó, Metropolitana de Belém, Nordeste Paraense, Sodoeste Paraense and Sudeste Paraense. Next, it analyzes which parties are right-center-left wing according to the production of Brazilian political science, and then observes the predominance of affiliation by ideology for each of the socioeconomic segments to be trained. It is found that an average percentage of affiliations to the right is higher in municipalities with small population sizes. The Região Metropolitana de Belém region was registered by the second lowest average of affiliation to the right. The Sudoeste Paraense region is not even among the top three in average affiliation to the right and the average affiliation to the left is higher among municipalities with a ‘high’ GDP compared to the others.