O Empoderamento das Mulheres nos Territórios da Cidadania e as Eleições de 2008 e 2012.

This article aims to analyze the relationships between projects for women in the federal program Territórios da Cidadania (TC) and changes that occurred in the participation of women candidates and elected to the position of city councilor in the 2008 and 2012 elections in these regions. The paper focuses the analysis on application records, electoral results and electoral financing networks. The sources of data and information were collected on the Ministério de Desenvolvimento Agrário website, which was then responsible for the program Territórios da Cidadania, and on the website of the Tribunal Superior Eleitoral (TSE). Supplementary data on municipalities were also obtained from the Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE). The data were organized in the form of a database and prepared for the generation of files of networks that were submitted to Gephi social network analysis software. The results show a considerable increase in women's political-electoral participation in TC above the national average as candidates and a timid increase in the number of women occupying council seats in the municipalities studied. To analyze these changes are used the positioning of the candidates in the financing networks and the changes in the profile of these women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]