A female rhinoceros in Brazil was elected to São Paulo’s municipal council by a landslide 50,000 votes on October 4, 1959. This was in protest against corrupt politics, food shortages, and the high cost of living in Brazil.
Several years earlier, in 1954, a goat was elected to the city council of Jaboata, which is also in Brazil. This councilman’s name was Smelly.
