How does the pandemic affects elections?

Lucas Gelape
Oct 15, 2020

In this article (in Portuguese), I evaluate the scientific evidence about the impact of Covid-19 on worldwide elections, to think how might they apply to the Brazilian 2020 local elections.

The article was published on the “Electoral Observatory” section of UOL, a Brazilian news website, on October, 15th, 2020.

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Lucas Gelape
Lucas Gelape
Political Scientist and Data Analyst

Political scientist and data analyst. Currently, a post-doc at Cepesp-FGV, Brazil. My work focuses on political institutions and I have experience with research design, and data analysis of political, socioeconomic and social media data.