In São Paulo, the number of valid votes in the 2nd round is the same as in the 1st, even with high absenteeism | 2020 elections in São Paulo

This was due to the fact that the number of blank and invalid votes decreased in the second round. Bruno Covas (PSDB) was reelected mayor of São Paulo with 59.3% of the valid votes.

The sum of blanks and voids was 880 thousand votes in this 2nd round, lower than that registered in the 1st round of this year. In the first round of the São Paulo capital, the number of white votes was 373 thousand and 642 thousand invalid, while in the second round it fell to 273 thousand and 607 thousand this Sunday, respectively.

Also this Sunday, the city of São Paulo broke a record in abstaining in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic: 30.81% of voters did not go to the polls this Sunday (29).

The index surpasses that registered to the previous historical record, of the first round, on November 15, when 29.29% of the eligible voters did not go to the polling stations. In this second round, 2,769,179 voters stopped going to the polls.

Before 2020, the largest abstention in the history of São Paulo was registered in 2016, when 22% of eligible voters did not go to the polls.

In the United States, 39% abstained, where voting is not mandatory: More than 60.8% of Americans went to the polls this year, the highest level of turnout in 56 years.

See the history of abstentions in the capital:

• 2004: 15%
• 2008: 16%
• 2012: 18%
• 2016: 22%
• 2020: 29.29% (1st shift)
• 2020: 30.8% (2nd round, with 98% of the votes counted)

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