Gubernatorial elections were held in Brazil on 2 October 2022 as part of the nationwide general elections to elect tickets with state governors and their vice governors (as well as the Governor of the Federal District and their vice governor). A second round was held on 30 October for states where no candidate was able to secure more than half of the votes in the first round.
Background The behind-the-scenes run for governor in the state began after the 2020 Brazilian municipal elections, According to Brazilian electoral law, no one candidate can be declared before July 2022, until then all quoted persons to be candidates are called pre-candidates or potential candidates.
Overview +2022 Brazilian gubernatorial electionsStateOutgoing GovernorWinner%Leading opponent%ReferencesNamePartyNamePartyNamePartyACGladson CameliPPGladson CameliReelected in the 1st roundPP56.75%Jorge VianaPT24.21%ALPaulo DantasMDBPaulo DantasReelected in the 2nd roundMDB52.33%Rodrigo CunhaUNIÃO47.67%APWaldez GóesPDTClécio LuísElected in the 1st roundSD53.69%Jaime NunesPSD42.58%AMWilson LimaUNIÃOWilson LimaReelected in the 2nd roundUNIÃO56.65%Eduardo BragaMDB43.35%BARui Costa PTJerônimo RodriguesElected in the 2nd roundPT52.79%ACM NetoUNIÃO47.21%CEIzolda CelaNo PartyElmano de FreitasElected in the 1st roundPT54.02%Capitão WagnerUNIÃO31.72%ESRenato CasagrandePSBRenato CasagrandeReelected in the 2nd roundPSB53.80%Carlos ManatoPL46.20%DFIbaneis RochaMDBIbaneis RochaReelected in the 1st roundMDB50.31%Leandro GrassPV26.26%GORonaldo CaiadoUNIÃORonaldo CaiadoReelected in the 1st roundUNIÃO51.81%Gustavo MendanhaPATRI25.20%MACarlos BrandãoPSBCarlos BrandãoReelected in the 1st roundPSB51.29%Lahesio BonfimPSC24.87%MTMauro MendesUNIÃOMauro MendesReelected in the 1st roundUNIÃO68.45%Marcia PinheiroPV16.41%MSReinaldo AzambujaPSDBEduardo RiedelElected in the 2nd roundPSDB56.90%Capitão ContarPRTB43.10%MGRomeu ZemaNOVORomeu ZemaReelected in the 1st roundNOVO56.18%Alexandre KalilPSD35.08%PRRatinho JúniorPSDRatinho JúniorReelected in the 1st roundPSD69.64%Roberto RequiãoPT26.23%PBJoão AzevêdoPSBJoão AzevêdoReelected in the 2nd roundPSB52.51%Pedro Cunha LimaPSDB47.49%PAHelder BarbalhoMDBHelder BarbalhoReelected in the 1st roundMDB70.41%Zequinha MarinhoPL27.13%PEPaulo CâmaraPSBRaquel LyraElected in the 2nd roundPSDB58.70%Marília ArraesSD41.30%PIRegina SousaPTRafael FontelesElected in the 1st roundPT57.17%Sílvio MendesUNIÃO41.62%RJCláudio CastroPLCláudio CastroReelected in the 1st roundPL58.67%Marcelo FreixoPSB27.38%RNFátima BezerraPTFátima BezerraReelected in the 1st roundPT58.31%Fábio DantasSD22,22%RSRanolfo Vieira JúniorPSDBEduardo LeiteReelected in the 2nd roundPSDB57.12%Onyx LorenzoniPL42.88%ROMarcos RochaUNIÃOMarcos RochaReelected in the 2nd roundUNIÃO52.47%Marcos RogérioPL47.53%RRAntonio DenariumPPAntonio DenariumReelected in the 1st roundPP56.47%Teresa SuritaMDB41.14%SCCarlos MoisésREPJorginho MelloElected in the 2nd roundPL70.69%Décio LimaPT29.31%SPRodrigo Garcia PSDBTarcísio de FreitasElected in the 2nd roundREP55.27%Fernando HaddadPT44.73%SEBelivaldo ChagasPSDFábio MitidieriElected in the 2nd roundPSD51.70%Rogério Carvalho SantosPT48.30%TOWanderlei BarbosaREPWanderlei BarbosaReelected in the 1st roundREP58.14%Ronaldo DimasPL22.50%
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Acre In Acre, incumbent Governor Gladson Cameli was reelected in the first round with 56.75% of the vote.
2018 election In 2018, Glason Cameli, a former senator for Acre and civil engineer affiliated with the Progressistas, was elected governor with 53.71% of the vote against Workers' Party candidate Marcus Alexandre and Social Liberal Party candidate Coronel Ulysses in the first round. Cameli, a supporter of President Jair Bolsonaro, broke the rule of the PT in Acre after 20 years.
He was elected along with his Vice-Governor Wherles Fernandes da Rocha, also known as Major Rocha, a member of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party. Rocha during his tenure switched to the Social Liberal Party, the Brazil Union, and then the Brazilian Democratic Movement, a party which opposed Cameli in the 2022 election.
Operation Ptolemy Cameli's first term saw a corruption investigation called Operation Ptolemy in 2021, in which the Federal Police investigated criminal organizations in Acre. Though Cameli has not been specifically targeted, the police seized some of Cameli's possessions, banned his international travel, and seized his passport. The police are also investigating his father Eladio Cameli and his brother Gledson Cameli. Overall the Federal Police found that at least 268.6 million reals in public funds had been stolen by the criminal organizations in fraudulent public contracts, but have not implicated Cameli.
Given no charge in the investigation prohibited his candidacy by the Superior Electoral Court or by the Ficha Limpa, which bans politicians convicted by a court, impeached, or resigned to avoid impeachment of running for eight years, Cameli was able to run for reelection.
Candidates The election saw all three incumbent senators for Acre run, either for governor or vice governor. The candidates were as follows: Gladson Cameli (PP), the incumbent governor, ran for reelection along with Maliza Gomes (PP) as vice governor. Gomes served as Cameli's alternate in the 2014 elections where he was elected senator and then as senator once Cameli was elected governor from 2019-2022. She was replaced by Bispo José (PL). Cameli's coalition "Advance to do more" was made up of the PP, PDT, Always Forward (PSDB, CID), PODE, SD, PATRI, PMN, DC, and PMB. Jorge Viana (PT), a forestry engineer, who served as Mayor of Rio Branco from 1993 to 1997, Governor of Acre from 1999 to 2007, and Senator for Acre from 2011 to 2019, ran along with Marcus Alexandre (PT) for vice governor, the previous challenger to Cameli. Viana's coalition was made up of the Brazil of Hope Federation (PT, PV, and PCdoB). Mara Rocha (MDB), a Federal Deputy and sister of Cameli's first vice governor Major Rocha, ran along with Fernando Alvares Zamora (PRTB), an agricultural producer for vice governor. Her coalition "Hope for a Better Acre Starts Now!" was composed of the MDB, PRTB, REP, and PL. Sérgio de Oliveira Cunha (PSD) also known as Petecão, a Senator for Acre first elected in 2010, who formerly served as President of the Legislative Assembly of Acre and as Federal Deputy, ran along with Tota Filho (PSD), an attorney from Cruzeiro do Sul. Petecão's coalition "With the Strength of the People" was composed of the PSD, AVANTE, PROS, and PTB. Márcio Bittar (UNIÃO), a former cattle rancher and senator first elected in 2018, who formerly served as a Federal Deputy, ran along with Dr. Georgia Micheletti (UNIÃO) for vice governor. Bittar's coalition was only made up of the Brazil Union, a party founded in 2021 as a union between the Democrats and Social Liberal Party, though Bittar was elected senator as a member of the MDB. Professor Nilson (PSOL), a college professor, ran along with Jane Rosas (PSOL), a business administrator. The coalition was made up of the PSOL REDE Federation of the Socialism and Liberty Party and the Sustainability Network. David Hall (AGIR), a high school teacher, ran along with Jorgiene Carneiro (AGIR). Their party Act or Agir in Portuguese ran an isolated ticket. The party was previously the Christian Labor Party and the National Reconstruction Party of the victorious Fernando Collor de Melo in 1989 elections.
Results
Amazonas In Amazonas, incumbent governor Wilson Lima was re-elected in the second round against former governor Eduardo Braga with 56.65% to Braga's 43.35%
2018 In 2018, Wilson Lima, a reporter and TV presenter most known for the program Alô Amazonas, was elected in the second round against incumbent governor Amazonino Mendes 58.50% to 41.50%. Lima, a supporter of Jair Bolsonaro, ran as a member of the Social Christian Party, a minor evangelical conservative movement. Mendes had been elected in 2017 in the supplementary elections after the impeachment of José Melo de Oliveira, who was elected in 2014.
Lima's Lt. Governor in 2018 was Carlos Almeida, a public defender affiliated with the right wing nationalist Brazilian Labor Renewal Party (PRTB). Almeida, having joined the Brazilian Labor Party (PTB), broke with Lima in 2020 over his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic in Amazonas, believing that Lima's enforcement of the Bolsonaro administration's Herd immunity policy was wrong. Almeida subsequently joined the Brazilian Social Democracy Party, which opposed Lima in the 2022 election.
Lima joined the Brazil Union (UNIÃO), a merger of the former Christian democratic Democrats (DEM) and conservative liberal Social Liberal Party (PSL), for the election.
Candidates The election saw two former governors run, along with the incumbent. The candidates were as follows: Wilson Lima (UNIÃO), the incumbent governor, ran for reelection along with Tadeu de Souza (AVANTE) as vice governor. Souza, a lawyer and close ally of the Manaus Mayor David Almeida, served as Lima's chief of staff from 2021 to 2022, after serving in the bureaucracy of Manaus. Lima was endorsed by Jair Bolsonaro in the second round, but Lima outperformed Bolsonaro by 6 points. Lima's coalition "Here is Work" was made up of the UNIÃO, AVANTE, PL, PTB, PATRI, PMN, PRTB, PSC, REP and PP. Eduardo Braga (MDB), an entrepreneur and long time politician, who served as Mayor of Manaus from 1994 to 1997, Governor of Amazonas from 2003 to 2010, Senator for Amazonas from 2011 to present, and Minister of Mines and Energy in the Rousseff administration, ran along with Anne Moura (PT) for vice governor, the National Secretary for Women of the Worker's Party. He was endorsed by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Braga's coalition was made up of the MDB, Brazil of Hope Federation (PT, PV, and PCdoB), and PSD. Amazonino Mendes (CID), the 41st, 44th, and 48th Governor of Amazonas, who also served as a Senator from 1991 to 1993 and the 64th, 67th, and 71st Mayor of Manaus, ran along with Beto Michiles (PSDB), a former Federal Deputy for vice governor. Mendes ran without a coalition except for the party federation Always Forward made up of his party Cidadania and the Brazilian Social Democracy Party. Ricardo Nicolau (SD), a hospital administrator and five time State Deputy in Amazonas, who formerly served as President of the Legislative Assembly of Amazonas and as City Councillor of Manaus, ran along with Cristiane Balieiro (PSB), a teacher. Nicolau's campaign focused on his health background and building more hospitals. Nicolau's coalition "We, the People" was composed of Solidarity and the Brazilian Socialist Party. Carol Braz (PDT), a lawyer, former judge, and Secretary of State for Justice, Human Rights, and Citizenship, who formerly served as president of the PSC in Manaus before leaving the party, ran along with Claudio Machado (PDT), an engineer, for vice governor. Braz had no coalition. Dr Israel Tuyuka (PSOL), an indigenous doctor and teacher from the Tuyuca ethnic group near Colombia, ran along with Thomaz Barbosa (PSOL), a radio announcer. Tuyuka ran without a coalition except for the PSOL REDE Federation of the Socialism and Liberty Party and the Sustainibility Network. Henrique Oliveira (PODE), a radio presenter who previously served as the vice governor of Amazonino Mendes from 2017 to 2019 and a Federal Deputy from 2011 to 2015, ran alongside Edward Malta (PROS), a businessman and state president of PROS. Oliveira's coalition "Amazonas Wants More" was made up of PODE and PROS. Nair Blair (AGIR), a businesswoman, ran along with Rita Nobre (AGIR), a dental surgeon. Their party Act or Agir in Portuguese ran an isolated ticket. Blair previously was elected but not charged in the investigation of the electoral crimes of former governor José Melo de Oliveira. The party was previously the Christian Labor Party and the National Reconstruction Party of the victorious Fernando Collor de Melo in 1989 elections.