O perfil sociopolítico de candidaturas evangélicas: um estudo das eleições municipais de 2016 e 2020

Abstract

This research was developed with the aim of analyzing the participation of evangelical candidates in the electoral sphere, using as a locus of investigation the municipal elections held in 2016 and 2020 in the various municipalities that make up the political geography of Brazil. In short, the objective is to understand the profile of candidacies from evangelical people in the process of forming legislative benches in the sphere of local power, based on indicators of social differentiation such as: gender, race, education, age group and party ideology. The data were organized based on the electoral data repository of the Superior Electoral Court and support the thesis that even among the evangelical community certain social profiles such as being white, male, married and having experience within congregations are more valued to the detriment of women and black people, even if they have greater education and actively participate in the work carried out within churches.