Humberto Castelo Branco Independent Indirect presidential elections were held in Brazil on 11 April 1964 shortly after the 1964 coup carried out by the Brazilian military.

Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco was elected president by the National Congress, receiving 361 of the 366 votes cast.

[1] José Maria Alkmin was elected vice-president unopposed after Auro de Moura Andrade withdrew his candidacy.

Following the events of the coup in the same year, João Goulart, the president, was deposed by allegations of leaving the country with no permission.

The date of election, was scheduled by the first Institutional Act, amended by the Supreme Command of the Revolution, the de facto ruler over Brazil at that moment.