1877 Riograndense general election (Rags to Riches)

The 1877 Riograndense general election was held on August 12, 1877 to elect the country's seventh president and seventh Chamber of Deputies. The election marked the end of the Liberal Consensus, as the rise of the Moderate Liberal Party led the conservative-liberal rural voters away from the country's ruling party. The Liberal Party rearranged its electoral coalition around urban voters and capitalist elites, campaigning on continuing the rise of Rio Grande's banking sector and on candidate Martins' vision of an industrial country.

This election signified the end of the Liberal Consensus, marking the ascendancy of a conservative-liberal party that would defend socially conservative policies while defending the liberal ideals of the Farroupilha Revolution. The rise of this liberal conservatism would eventually lead to the fall of the anti-Farroupilha right.