2018 Rio de Janeiro gubernatorial election

2018 Rio de Janeiro state election

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Gubernatorial election

Nominee Wilson Witzel Eduardo Paes Party PSC DEM Alliance More Order, More Progress Strength of Rio Running mate Cláudio Castro Comte Bittencourt Popular vote 4,675,355 3,134,400 Percentage 59.87% 40.13%

Candidate with the most votes per municipality in the 2nd round (92):       Wilson Witzel (89)       Eduardo Paes (3)

Governor before election Francisco Dornelles (acting) PP Elected Governor Wilson Witzel PSC

Parliamentary election

Party Leader % Seats +/– Legislative Assembly PSL Flávio Bolsonaro 15.62% 13 +11 DEM Filipe Soares 7.09% 6 +6 MDB Rafael Picciani 6.68% 5 −10 PSD Jorge Felippe Neto 4.69% 3 −5 PT Gilberto Palmares 4.53% 3 −3 Republicanos Jucélia Freitas 4.33% 3 +1 PP Dionisio Lins 3,14% 2 −2 PRP Bruno Dauaire 2.80 2 +2 PHS Marcos Muller 2.74% 2 +1 PSC Márcio Pacheco 2.44% 2 +1 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

2018 Rio de Janeiro Senate election

7 October 2018 (2018-10-07)

Candidate Flávio Bolsonaro Arolde de Oliveira Cesar Maia Party PSL PSD DEM Popular vote 4,380,418 2,382,265 2,327,634 Percentage 31.36% 17.06% 16.67%

Candidate with the most votes per municipality in the 1st round (92):       Flávio Bolsonaro (84)       César Maia (8)

Senators before election Lindbergh Farias and Eduardo Lopes PT and PRB Elected Senators Arolde de Oliveira and Flávio Bolsonaro PSD and PSL

The Rio de Janeiro gubernatorial election of October 2018 was for the election of the Governor and Vice Governor of Rio de Janeiro and 70 State Deputies. People also voted for 2 of 3 Senators of the state representation in the Federal legislative power, with 45 federal deputies representatives of the Rio de Janeiro State. A second round was held after no candidate managed to secure more than 50% of the Governor votes.

The previous gubernatorial election in the state was held in October 2014. Supported by the Brazilian Democratic Movement, Luiz Fernando Pezão was re-elected in second round with 55.78% of the votes, against 44.22% of Marcelo Crivella.^[1]

In the second round runoff, Wilson Witzel was elected Governor of Rio de Janeiro.