Brazilian municipal elections, 2016

Brazilian municipal elections, 2016
2 October 2016
Mayors and councillors of all the 5,568 municipalities of Brazil

  Majority party Minority party Third party
 
Leader Romero Jucá Aécio Neves Alfredo Cotait Neto
Party PMDB PSDB PSD
Last election 1,022 mayors 701 mayors 490 mayors
Seats won 1,038 803 540
Seat change +16 +102 +50
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Ciro Nogueira Carlos Siqueira Carlos Lupi
Party PP PSB PDT
Last election 469 mayors 443 mayors 314 mayors
Seats won 492 415 335
Seat change +23 -28 +21

The Brazilian municipal elections of 2016 took place on 2 October 2016 and on 30 October 2016 (for cities with more than 200,000 voters, where the second round is available).[1] Electors chose mayors, vice-mayors and city councillors of all 5,568 cities of the country. The partisan conventions took place between 20 July and 5 August.[2] The party political broadcast started in 26 August and ended in 29 September.[2] Until 2012, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays there was the broadcast for candidates to city halls, 30 minutes long. The broadcasts for candidates for city councils were broadcast on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, also 30 minutes long. At least 97 cities had only one candidate for mayor in these elections. Besides that, 48.8% of the cities of the country didn't have more than two candidates.[3] These were the first elections in which recently registered parties Partido da Mulher Brasileira (PMB), Rede Sustentabilidade (REDE) and Partido Novo (NOVO) participated; they were recognized by the Supreme Electoral Court (Portuguese: Tribunal Superior Eleitoral - TSE) in 2015.[4] Some of the most highlighted elected candidates include liberal businessman João Doria (PSDB) in São Paulo and licensed bishop Marcelo Crivella (PRB) in Rio de Janeiro. The elections also took place after the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff and during the investigations of Operation Car Wash (Portuguese: Operação Lava Jato). However, it only affected the left-wing Workers' Party, with its reduction of elected mayors, while the centre-right Brazilian Democratic Movement Party and Progressive Party, with the most of its members investigated, had an increase of elected candidates.[5]

Results in capitals

Result
Capital Federative unit Mayor Party Vice Mayor
Aracaju Sergipe Edvaldo Nogueira PCdoB Eliane Aquino
Belém Pará Zenaldo Coutinho PSDB Orlando Reis
Belo Horizonte Minas Gerais Alexandre Kalil PHS Paulo Lamac
Boa Vista Roraima Teresa Surita PMDB Arthur Henrique
Campo Grande Mato Grosso do Sul Marquinhos Trad PSD Adriane Lopes
Cuiabá Mato Grosso Emanuel Pinheiro PMDB Niuan Ribeiro
Curitiba Paraná Rafael Greca PMN Eduardo Pimentel
Florianópolis Santa Catarina Gean Loureiro PMDB João Batista Nunes
Fortaleza Ceará Roberto Cláudio PDT Moroni Torgan
Goiânia Goiás Iris Rezende PMDB Major Araújo
João Pessoa Paraíba Luciano Cartaxo PSD Manoel Junior
Macapá Amapá Clécio Luís REDE Telma Nery
Maceió Alagoas Rui Palmeira PSDB Marcelo Palmeira
Manaus Amazonas Arthur Virgílio Neto PSDB Marcos Rotta
Natal Rio Grande do Norte Carlos Eduardo Alves PDT Álvaro Dias
Palmas Tocantins Carlos Amastha PSB Cinthia Ribeiro
Porto Alegre Rio Grande do Sul Nelson Marchezan Júnior PSDB Gustavo Paim
Porto Velho Rondônia Hildon Chaves PSDB Edgar do Boi
Recife Pernambuco Geraldo Júlio PSB Luciano Siqueira
Rio Branco Acre Marcus Alexandre PT Socorro Neri
Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro Marcelo Crivella PRB Fernando Mac Dowell
Salvador Bahia ACM Neto DEM Bruno Reis
São Luís Maranhão Edivaldo Holanda Júnior PDT Júlio Pinheiro
São Paulo São Paulo João Doria PSDB Bruno Covas
Teresina Piauí Firmino Filho PSDB Luiz Júnior
Vitória Espirito Santo Luciano Rezende PPS Sérgio Sá

References

  1. ↑ "Plenário do TSE aprova Calendário Eleitoral das Eleições de 2016" (in Portuguese). Tribunal Superior Eleitoral. 10 November 2015. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
  2. 1 2 "Confira as principais datas previstas no calendário eleitoral do pleito deste ano" (in Portuguese). Tribual Superior Eleitoral. 7 January 2016. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
  3. ↑ Lopes, Nathan (13 September 2016). "Ele é candidato a prefeito e só precisa ter um voto para se eleger" (in Portuguese). Uol. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
  4. ↑ Dantas, Humberto; Rezende, Monica (23 January 2017). "Partidos que debutaram nas eleições 2016" (in Portuguese). Estadão. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
  5. ↑ Junqueira, Diego (6 October 2016). "Partido com mais investigados na Lava Jato tem alta no número de prefeitos" (in Portuguese). R7. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
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