Brazil’s collective candidacies shake up election: ‘Cast one vote, get five black women’

The Bancada Feminista, or Feminist Bench, collective, which is campaigning for the state legislature in São Paulo and is backed by the leftwing PSOL party. Photograph: Supplied

Democracy is famously described as one person, one vote, and the final part of the electoral equation is so obvious it does not need saying: one winner.

But that formula is being challenged in Brazil this year, where a new wave of what are called collective candidacies are shaking up the traditional way of doing politics.