The 2002 state elections in São Paulo took place on October 6 as part of the general elections held in the Federal District and 26 states. The governor, the lieutenant governor, two senators, seventy federal deputies, and 94 state deputies were elected. Since no gubernatorial candidate received a majority of the valid votes, a runoff election was held on October 27, and, in accordance with the Constitution, the governor and vice governor-elect were to take office on January 1, 2003, for a four-year term.
Mário Covas (PSDB), who was elected governor in 1994 and reelected in 1998, died in March 2001. The lieutenant governor, Geraldo Alckmin (PSDB), was sworn in as governor and ran for reelection in 2002. In the first round, Alckmin received 38.2% of the vote, beating José Genoino (PT), with 32.4%, and Paulo Maluf (PPB), with 21.3%. In the second round, Alckmin was reelected with 58.6% of the vote, receiving 3.5 million more votes than Genoino. Cláudio Lembo (PFL) was elected lieutenant governor.
In the elections for the National Congress, Aloizio Mercadante (PT) and Romeu Tuma (PFL) were elected senators with 29.8% and 20.7% of the vote, respectively. For the Chamber of Deputies, the Workers' Party (PT) elected eighteen federal deputies and the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB), eleven. Eight of the elected federal deputies were members of the Liberal Front Party (PFL), six of the Party of the Reconstruction of the National Order (PRONA), five of the Brazilian Labour Party (PTB), and five of the Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB). The Legislative Assembly of São Paulo (Alesp) was composed of 23 deputies from the PT, eighteen from the PSDB, eight from the Brazilian Progressive Party (PPB), six from the PTB, six from the PFL, five from the Popular Socialist Party (PPS), and five from the Green Party (PV), with the remaining 23 seats filled by politicians affiliated with nine other parties.
Background Mário Covas was the 55th Governor of São Paulo from January 1, 1995, to January 22, 2001, when he stepped down from office due to cancer. Since Mário Covas did not resign from office, he remained Governor on medical leave until his death on March 6, 2001. In the meantime, Geraldo Alckmin governed the state as Acting Governor.A member of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB), Geraldo Alckmin was chosen as the party’s candidate in an effort to keep the party in power in São Paulo.
The Workers' Party (PT) opted for a ticket consisting entirely of its own members, comprising former guerrilla fighter José Genoíno and labor union leader Luiz Marinho. Paulo Maluf (PPB), the former governor of São Paulo and former mayor of the state capital, also ran for the office in an effort to return to the Palácio dos Bandeirantes.
Dates The first round was held on October 6, 2006. The second round, meanwhile, was held on October 27, 2002.
State gubernatorial election
Governor-elect
A medical doctor who graduated from the University of Taubaté (UNITAU), Geraldo Alckmin was born in Pindamonhangaba, where he headed the Department of Anesthesiology at Santa Casa de Misericórdia; in Lorena, he taught at the and at the Santa Teresa Institute. Elected city councilman in his hometown by the Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB) in 1972, he assumed the presidency of the City Council during that legislative term, and in 1976 he was elected mayor of Pindamonhangaba. With the restoration of the multi-party system under President João Figueiredo, he joined the PMDB and, under that party banner, was elected state representative in and federal representative in . Two years later, he was one of the founders of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB) and signed the 1988 Constitution, winning reelection as a federal deputy in . He voted in favor of the impeachment of Fernando Collor de Mello in 1992, was elected vice governor of São Paulo on Mário Covas’s ticket in 1994, and reelected in 1998. As a candidate for mayor of São Paulo in 2000, he did not even make it to the runoff. Early the following year, he became interim governor following the incumbent’s removal from office, and after Covas’s death on March 6, 2001, he was confirmed as governor. Alckmin ran for reelection in 2002 and was reelected in the runoff after defeating José Genoino of the Workers’ Party (PT).
Vice Governor-elect
A lawyer born in São Paulo and a graduate of the University of São Paulo (USP), Cláudio Lembo worked at Banco Itaú, where he remained for nearly forty years. A professor at Mackenzie Presbyterian University, he served as the institution’s president. A member of National Renewal Alliance (ARENA), he served as Secretary of Extraordinary Affairs during Olavo Setúbal’s tenure as mayor of São Paulo and assumed the state presidency of the party. Defeated by Franco Montoro in the 1978 senatorial election, he returned to political life by joining the PFL. Close to Marco Maciel, he served as that politician’s chief of staff at the Ministry of Education and advised him during his tenure as Vice President of the Republic. He served the São Paulo City Hall as Secretary of Legal Affairs during Jânio Quadros’s second term and was a vice-presidential candidate on Aureliano Chaves’s ticket in 1989. Secretary of Planning during Paulo Maluf’s second term as mayor of São Paulo, he was elected lieutenant governor on Alckmin’s ticket after leaving the presidency of Mackenzie University in 2002, and four years later assumed the governorship when the incumbent resigned to run for the presidency.
Results
First round
Candidates for state governorCandidates for lieutenant governorNumberCoalitionVotesPercentageGeraldo Alckmin PSDBCláudio Lembo PFL45São Paulo em Boas Mãos (PSDB, PFL, PSD)7.505.48638,28%José Genoino PTLuiz Marinho PT13São Paulo quer Mudança (PT, PCdoB, PCB)6.361.74732,45%Paulo Maluf PPBHeitor Pinto Filho PPB11Resolve São Paulo (PPB, PL, PSDC, PTN)4.190.70621,37%PGTEgeferson Craveiro PGT30São Paulo nas Mãos de Deus (PGT, PHS, PST)703.8583,59%PMDBPMDB15—259.3171,32%Carlos Roberto Pittoli PSBRaimundo dos Santos Oliveira PSB40—216.3691,10%PTBCelso Jatene PTB14Frente Trabalhista (PTB, PDT, PPS)200.8391,03%Antonio Pinheiro Pedro PVCláudio Turtelli PV43—52.0680,27%Robson Malek PRONAAdalton Nimtz PRONA56—38.5450,20%PSTUCidinha Lamas PSTU16—35.5560,18%Ciro Moura PTCEduardo Souza Costa PTC36Bandeira Paulista (PTC, PSC, PRP, PTdoB)17.8540,09%Levy Fidelix PRTBLuís Roberto Brunello PRTB28—8.6540,04%Roberto Siqueira Gomes PSLEdward Ferraz PSL17—7.6480,04%Anaí Caproni PCOEdinaldo Augusto PCO29—4.6340,02%PANRoberto Machioni PAN26—3.4180,02%
Second round
Candidates for state governorCandidates for lieutenant governorNumberCoalitionVotesPercentageRef.Geraldo Alckmin PSDBCláudio Lembo PFL45São Paulo em Boas Mãos (PSDB, PFL, PSD)12.008.81958,64%José Genoino PTLuiz Marinho PT13São Paulo quer Mudança (PT, PCdoB, PCB)8.470.86341,36%
Elected senators
Alozio Mercadante
The son of retired General Osvaldo Muniz Oliva, economist Aloizio Mercadante was born in Santos and opposed the 1964 military dictatorship while studying at the USP, from which he graduated in 1976. Two years later, he earned a master’s degree from the State University of Campinas (Unicamp) and began teaching at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP), heading the Department of Economics and coordinating the Research Center. He earned a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Campinas in 1988; prior to that, he had served as president of the National Association of Higher Education Faculty (ANDES) during the João Figueiredo administration and was among the founders of the Central Única dos Trabalhadores (CUT). A member of the PT’s national executive committee, he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1990, voted to initiate the impeachment proceedings against Fernando Collor in 1992, and ran as the vice-presidential candidate on Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s ticket in 1994, though he was not elected. In 1998, he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies.
Romeu Tuma
Born in São Paulo and holding a bachelor’s degree in law from the PUC-SP, Romeu Tuma joined the civil police in 1951 and served as a police officer, investigator, and police chief before being appointed as an advisor to Sérgio Paranhos Fleury at the Department of Political and Social Order (DOPS). When Paulo Egydio Martins was governor of São Paulo, Tuma took over the leadership of the DOPS at the behest of the Secretary of Security, Erasmo Dias. Superintendent of the Federal Police in São Paulo during the administration of President João Figueiredo, he was appointed director-general of the agency by José Sarney. Kept in office by Fernando Collor, he combined this role with that of Secretary of the Federal Revenue Service, and in 1991 he assumed one of the vice-presidencies of Interpol. With a police career that included work on the cases of Nazis Gustav Wagner and Josef Mengele and mafia boss Tommaso Buscetta, he served as special advisor to Governor Luiz Antônio Fleury Filho. A cousin of Nicolau Tuma and father of Robson Tuma, he was elected senator for the PL in 1994. After a brief stint with the Social Liberal Party (PSL), he switched to the PFL and ran unsuccessfully for mayor of São Paulo in 2000, but was re-elected to the Senate in 2002.
Results Senatorial candidates Candidates for alternate senatorNumbrCoalitionVotesPercentageAloizio Mercadante PTJosé Giacomo Baccarin PT
João Vaccari Neto
PT131São Paulo quer Mudança (PT, PCdoB, PCB)10.491.34529,86%Romeu Tuma PFLPFL
Alexandre Thiollier
PFL252São Paulo em Boas Mãos (PSDB, PFL, PSD)7.278.18520,71%Orestes Quércia PMDBNildo Masini PMDB
Sebastião Biazzo
PMDB151—5.550.80315,80%José Aníbal PSDBPSDB
José Ricardo Franco
PSDB451São Paulo em Boas Mãos (PSDB, PFL, PSD)4.957.17314,11%Wagner Gomes PCdoBMaria José Jandreice PCdoB
Davi Gonçalves
PCdoB651São Paulo quer Mudança (PT, PCdoB, PCB)3.473.1989,88%Cunha Bueno PPBMarino Pazzaglini PPB
PPB111Resolve São Paulo (PPB, PL, PSDC, PTN)1.794.4155,11%Eliseu Gabriel PDTEvaldo Pereira PDT
Evaldo Vicentini
PPS123Frente Trabalhista (PTB, PDT, PPS)259.1420,74%José Luiz Penna PVCarlos Gilberto PV
Vera Lúcia
PV434—226.0290,64%Rubens Calvo PSBClaudines Beltrami PSB
Antônio Francisco
PSB401—220.7380,63%PTBJoão Zangrandi PPS
Manoel Coelho
PTB147Frente Trabalhista (PTB, PDT, PPS)149.6060,43%Mohamad Said Mourad PSBJoão Paulo Galvez PSB
Vicente Augusto
PSB402—133.9250,38%Paulo Corrêa PRONAAurino Rocha PRONA
Lindete Almeida
PRONA561—101.3710,29%Ademar Barros Bezerra PGTAziz Gabriel PGT
Odyr Rodrigues
PGT301São Paulo nas Mãos de Deus (PGT, PHS, PST)80.6170,23%Mauro Puerro PSTUAry Blinder PSTU
Marisa Mendes
PSTU161—75.7790,22%Floriano Leandrini PMDBSandra Aguiar PMDB
Francisco Assis Rodrigues
PMDB152—72.9090,21%PTNJoão Dárcio PTN
Valdemar dos Santos
PTN190—67.8020,19%José Maria Marin PSCDirceu Resende PRP
Carlos Alberto da Silva
PTdoB200Bandeira Paulista (PTC, PSC, PRP, PTdoB)63.6590,18%José Raul Brasiliense PHSRubens Cascaldi PHS
Antônio Carlos Inácio
PHS312São Paulo nas Mãos de Deus (PGT, PHS, PST)41.3950,12%Renato Bento Luiz PSTUAlfredo Silva PSTU
Marcus Vinícius
PSTU162—37.7320,11%Lucas Albano PMNIara Perali dos Santos PMN
Teresinha Carvalho Dias
PMN333—22.9340,07%Paulo Fortunato PSDCAriovaldo Gobatti PSDC
José Alfredo Machado
PSDC270—17.8880,05%Wlamisa Feltrim PCOAfrânio Raes PCO
Consuelo dos Santos
PCO291—6.9390,02%Firmino Rosa PCOElza Costa PCO
Silvia Quirino
PCO292—5.3270,01%Carlos Henrique Darde PRTBDaniel Oltramari PRTB
Aldinéa Fidelix
PRTB281—4.8450,01%José Costa PANIvonete Pasternack PAN
João Rezende Neto
PAN266—4.4390,01%
Elected federal deputies