Do quase nada ao praticamente tudo: uma análise espacial da evolução da votação dos candidatos do Partido dos Trabalhadores à presidência no Nordeste.

Abstract

Deeply changes on the electoral geographic perfil, on the subject president Brazil elections, happened in 2006. Candidates of the Partido dos trabalhadores (PT) - Worker s Party - , that until this moment used to be voted on the more developed regions of the country, passed to win the elections with a great difference on the poorest regions of Brazil. Understand as poorest regions of Brazil as Noth and Northeast. This research, intend to do a historic of the relation between the Northeast Region and the workers party candidates to the post of president since the democratization period, on the 1990. The challenge is try to understand the relation between the options of vote on candidates of this party and the socioeconomic development, over time, on the region, considering the Bolsa Família program. Beyond this challenge, this dissertation also brings the case of Viçosa do Ceará that shows that the vote in federal ambit induction by representatives of local power is not the rule any more, but de exception. This investigation uses bibliography and historical analysis and statistical methods, mainly of spatial analysis.