The Christian Democracy (, DC) is a

Christian democratic Christian democracy (sometimes named Centrist democracy) is a political ideology that emerged in 19th-century Europe under the influence of Catholic social teaching and neo-Calvinism. It was conceived as a combination of modern democrati ...

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. It was founded on March 30, 1995 as the Christian Social Democratic Party (, PSDC), elected mayors and council members in 1996, and was officially registered on the

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on August 5, 1997. It uses the TSE Identification Number 27. At the

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, 6 October 2002, the party won 1 out of 513 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and no seats in the Senate. The party lost all representation in the Congress in the 2006 elections. On 3 August 2017, the party changed its name to the current Christian Democracy.

Electoral history

Presidential elections

Legislative elections

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* Christian democratic parties in South America Political parties established in 1995 1995 establishments in Brazil Conservative parties in Brazil {{Brazil-party-stub