2022 Santa Catarina gubernatorial election

2022 Santa Catarina state election

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Opinion polls
Turnout	81.54% (first round) 82.56% (second round)
Gubernatorial election
Candidate Jorginho Mello Décio Lima Party PL PT Alliance None Democratic Front of Santa Catarina Running mate Delegada Marilisa Bia Vargas Popular vote 2,983,949 1,237,016 Percentage 70.69% 29.31%
Candidate with the most votes per municipality in the 2nd round (295):      Jorginho Mello (280 municipalities)      Décio Lima (15 municipalities)
Governor before election Carlos Moisés Republicanos Elected Governor Jorginho Mello PL
Parliamentary election
All 94 seats of the Legislative Assembly
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/– Legislative Assembly PL Ana Caroline Campagnolo 21.81 11 +8 MDB Antídio Lunelli 12.55 6 −3 PT Luciane Carminatti 10.87 4 0 PSD Mário Motta 7.29 3 −2 PP Zé Milton 6.96 3 0 UNIÃO Jair Miotto 6.60 3 +3 PODE Paulinha 5.89 3 +3 PSDB Marcos Vieira 5.24 2 0 Republicanos Sérgio Motta 4.06 1 0 NOVO Matheus Cadorin 3.39 1 0 PTB Delegado Egídio Ferrari 2.40 1 0 PSOL Marquito 2.06 1 +1 PDT Rodrigo Minotto 2.04 1 −1 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Senatorial election
2 October 2022 (2022-10-02)(one-only round)
Opinion polls
Candidate Jorge Seif Raimundo Colombo Dário Party PL PSD PSB Alliance None Let's Work Democratic Front of Santa Catarina Popular vote 1,484,110 608,213 605.258 Percentage 39.79% 16.30% 16.23%
Candidate with the most votes per municipality (645):      Jorge Seif (203 municipalities)      Dário Berger (45 municipalities)      Celso Maldaner (30 municipalities)      Raimundo Colombo (10 municipalities)      Kennedy Nunes (5 municipalities)   Tied
Senator before election Dário Berger PSB Elected Senator Jorge Seif PL

The 2022 Santa Catarina state election took place in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil on 2 October 2022 and 30 October 2022. Voters elected a Governor, Vice Governor, one Senator, 16 representatives for the Chamber of Deputies and 40 Legislative Assembly members. The incumbent Governor, Carlos Moisés, of the Republicans, was eligible for a second term and ran for reelection. ^[1]

Moisés was elected Governor in 2018 and took office as the governor on January 1, 2019. Moisés was impeached twice by the Legislative Assembly of Santa Catarina but was acquitted in both requests by the Special Impeachment Court. Moisés was elected as a member of the PSL but joined the Republicans for the 2022 election. Senator Jorginho Mello (PL) was elected governor in the second round with the greatest percentage of votes of the whole election cycle. ^{[2] [3] [4]}

For the election to the Federal Senate, the seat occupied by Dário Berger (PSB) since 2014, was at dispute, and the incumbent said that he will run for reelection. ^[5] Bolsonaro fisheries official Jorge Seif (PL) was elected senator by a 20 point margin. ^[6]

Electoral calendar

Note: This section only presents the main dates of the 2022 electoral calendar, check the TSE official website (in Portuguese) and other official sources for detailed information.

Electoral calendar
May 15	Start of crowdfunding of candidates
July 20 to August 5	Party conventions for choosing candidates and coalitions
August 16 to September 30	Period of exhibition of free electoral propaganda on radio, television and on the internet related to the first round
October 2	First round of 2022 elections
October 7 to October 28	Period of exhibition of free electoral propaganda on radio, television and on the internet related to the second round
October 30	Second round of 2022 elections
until December 19	Delivery of electoral diplomas for those who were elected in the 2022 elections by the Brazilian Election Justice

Legislative Assembly

The result of the last state election and the current situation in the Legislative Assembly of São Paulo is given below:

Affiliation		Members		+/–
		Elected [7]	Current [8]
	PL	6	19	13
	PSDB	8	13	5
	PT	10	10
	UNIÃO	New	8	8
	PODE	4	7	3
	Republicanos	6	7	1
	PP	4	5	1
	MDB	3	3
	PSD	2	3	1
	PSOL	4	3	1
	Cidadania	2	2
	Avante	1	2	1
	PCdoB	1	2	1
	PDT	1	2	1
	NOVO	4	2	2
	Agir	0	1	1
	PRTB	0	1	1
	Patriota	1	1
	REDE	1	1
	Solidarity	1	1
	PSB	8	1	7
	PHS	1	0	1
	PROS	1	0	1
	PV	1	0	1
	PTB	2	0	2
	DEM	7	0	7
	PSL	15	0	15
Total		94		–

Gubernatorial candidates

The party conventions began on July 20 and will continue until August 5th. The following political parties have already confirmed their candidacies. Political parties have until August 15, 2022, to formally register their candidates. ^[9]

Candidates in runoff

Party		Candidate	Most relevant political office or occupation	Party		Running mate	Coalition	Electoral number	TV time per party/coalition	Refs.
	PL	Jorginho Mello	Senator for Santa Catarina (2019–2023)		PL	Marilisa Boehm	—	22	43 seconds	[10]
	Workers' Party (PT)	Décio Lima	Federal deputy of Santa Catarina (2007–2019)		Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB)	Bia Vargas	Democratic Front of Santa Catarina Brazil of Hope Workers' Party (PT) Communist Party of Brazil (PCdoB) Green Party (PV) Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB) Solidariedade	13	2 minutes and 12 seconds	[11] [12]

Candidates failing to make runoff

Party		Candidate	Most relevant political office or occupation	Party		Running mate	Coalition	Electoral number	TV time per party/coalition	Refs.
	Republicans	Carlos Moisés	Governor of Santa Catarina (2019–2023)		Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB)	Udo Döhler	Santa Catarina in First Place Republicans Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB) [13] Podemos (PODE) Avante Social Christian Party (PSC) Christian Democracy (DC)	10	1 minute and 49 seconds	[14] [15]
	Brazil Union (UNIÃO)	Gean Loureiro	Mayor of Florianópolis (2017–2022)		Social Democratic Party (PSD)	Eron Giordani	Let's Work Brazil Union (UNIÃO) Social Democratic Party (PSD) Patriota	44	2 minutes and 23 seconds	[16] [17]
	Progressistas (PP)	Esperidião Amin	Senator for Santa Catarina (1991-1999,since 2019)		Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB)	Dalirio Beber	Experience to Serve Santa Catarina Progressistas (PP) Always Forward Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB) Cidadania Brazilian Labour Party (PTB)	11	1 minute and 40 seconds	[18] [19]
	New Party (NOVO)	Odair Tramontin	Prosecutor (since 1988)		New Party (NOVO)	Ricardo Althoff	—	30	16 seconds	[20] [21]
	Democratic Labour Party (PDT)	Jorge Boeira	Federal Deputy for Santa Catarina (2003-2019)		Democratic Labour Party (PDT)	Adilson Buzzi	—	12	37 seconds	[22] [23]
	United Socialist Workers' Party (PSTU)	Professor Alex Alano	State Public School Teacher		United Socialist Workers' Party (PSTU)	Gabriela Santetti	—	16	—	[24]
	Republican Party of the Social Order (PROS)	Ralph Zimmer	Public Defender		Republican Party of the Social Order (PROS)	Ana Lúcia Meotti	—	90	17 seconds	[25]
	Workers' Cause Party (PCO)	Leandro Brugnago	Carpenter		Workers' Cause Party (PCO)	Jair Fernandes de Aguiar Ramos	—	80	—	[26]
The television time reserved for political propaganda for each election will be distributed among all parties and coalitions that have a candidate and representation in the Chamber of Deputies.									Total: 10 minutes	[27]

Senatorial candidates

The party conventions began on July 20 and will continue until August 5th. The following political parties have already confirmed their candidacies. Political parties have until August 15, 2022, to formally register their candidates. ^[9]

Confirmed candidates

Party		Candidate	Most relevant political office or occupation	Party		Candidates for Alternate Senators	Coalition	Electoral number
	Democratic Labour Party (PDT)	Hilda Deola	City Councillor of Itajaí (since 2021)		Democratic Labour Party (PDT)	1st alternate senator: Adilson Buzzi	—	123
						2nd alternate senator: Guilherme Pereira
	Brazilian Labour Party (PTB)	Kennedy Nunes	Member of the Legislative Assembly of Santa Catarina (2019–2023)		Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB)	1st alternate senator: Bruno Bortoluzzi	Experience to Serve Santa Catarina Progressistas (PP) Always Forward Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB) Cidadania Brazilian Labour Party (PTB)	142
					Brazilian Labour Party (PTB)	2nd alternate senator: Ruti Rossi
	Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB)	Celso Maldaner	Member of the Chamber of Deputies (2007–2023		Republicanos	1st alternate senator: Nazareno Martins	Santa Catarina in First Place Republicans Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB) Podemos (PODE) Avante Social Christian Party (PSC) Christian Democracy (DC)	155
					Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB)	2nd alternate senator: Edinho Bez
	United Socialist Workers' Party (PSTU)	Gilmar Salgado	Retired public servant		United Socialist Workers' Party (PSTU)	1st alternate senator: Marina Soares	—	161
						2nd alternate senator: Tarcísio Eberhardt
	Liberal Party (PL)	Jorge Seif	National Secretary of Fishing and Aquaculture (2019–2022)		Liberal Party (PL)	1st alternate senator: Hermes Klann	—	222
						2nd alternate senator: Adrian Censi
	New Party (NOVO)	Luiz Barboza Neto	Ophthalmologist		New Party (NOVO)	1st alternate senator: Helon Antonio Rebelatto	—	300
						2nd alternate senator: Cariny Figueiredo
	Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB)	Dário Berger	Senator for Santa Catarina (2015–present)		Workers' Party (PT)	1st alternate senator: José Fritsch	Democratic Front of Santa Catarina Brazil of Hope Workers' Party (PT) Communist Party of Brazil (PCdoB) Green Party (PV) Solidariedade Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB)	400
					Green Party (PV)	2nd alternate senator: Guaraci Fagundes
	Socialism and Liberty Party (PSOL)	Afrânio Boppré	City Councillor of Florianópolis (since 2013)		Sustainability Network (REDE)	1st alternate senator: Miriam Prochnow	PSOL REDE Federation	500
						2nd alternate senator: Márcia Stefani
	Social Democratic Party (PSD)	Raimundo Colombo	Governor of Santa Catarina (2011–2018)		Brazil Union (UNIÃO)	1st alternate senator: Ivandro de Souza	Let's Work Brazil Union (UNIÃO) Social Democratic Party (PSD) Patriota	551
					Patriota	2nd alternate senator: David Fernandes

Debate list

For the first time in the Brazilian general elections since 1989, television and radio stations, newspapers and news websites group themselves into pools to hold gubernatorial debates, by request of the campaigns in order to reduce the number of debates scheduled for the 2022 elections. ^[28]

As of 29 August 2022, the following presidential debates were held or scheduled (times in UTC−03:00): ^{[29] [30]}

2022 Santa Catarina gubernatorial election debates
No.	Date, time and location	Hosts	Moderators	Participants
Key:  P  Present  A  Absent				Rep	PT	PP	UNIÃO	PDT	PL	NOVO	PROS
				Moisés	Lima	Amin	Loureiro	Boeira	Mello	Tramontin	Zimmer
1	Saturday, 6 August 2022, 18:15, Florianópolis	SCC SBT	Cláudio Prisco Paraíso	P	P	P	P	P	P	P	A
2	Tuesday, 27 September 2022, 22:00, Florianópolis	NSC TV, CBN, G1	Raphael Faraco	P	P	P	P	P	P	P	P

Results

Governor

Candidate		Running mate	Party	First round		Second round
				Votes	%	Votes	%
	Jorginho Mello	Marilisa Boehm	PL	1,575,912	38.62	2,983,949	70.69
	Décio Lima	Beatriz Vargas (PSB)	PT	710,859	17.42	1,237,016	29.31
	Carlos Moisés (incumbent)	Udo Dohler (MDB)	Republicanos	693,426	16.99
	Gean Loureiro	Eron Giordani (PSD)	UNIÃO	555,615	13.61
	Esperidião Amin	Dalírio Beber (PSDB)	PP	398,092	9.75
	Odair Tramontin	Ricardo Althoff	NOVO	114,087	2.80
	Jorge Boeira	Adilson Buzzi	PDT	24,809	0.61
	Alex Alano	Gabriela Santetti	PSTU	4,395	0.11
	Ralf Zimmer	Ana Meotti	PROS	3,828	0.09
	Leandro Borges	Jair de Aguiar	PCO	829
Total				4,081,023	100.00	4,220,965	100.00
Valid votes				4,081,023	91.26	4,220,965	93.22
Invalid votes				167,571	3.75	141,361	3.12
Blank votes				223,025	4.99	165,455	3.65
Total votes				4,471,619	100.00	4,527,781	100.00
Registered voters/turnout				5,486,962	81.50	5,486,962	82.52
	PL gain from Republicanos

Popular vote (first round) Mello   38.61% Lima   17.42% Moisés   16.99% Loureiro   13.61% Amin   9.75% Others   3.60%

Popular vote (second round) Mello   70.69% Lima   29.31%

Senator

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Jorge Seif	PL	1,484,110	39.79
	Raimundo Colombo	PSD	608,213	16.30
	Dário Berger (incumbent)	PSB	605,258	16.23
	Kennedy Nunes	PTB	443,425	11.89
	Celso Maldaner	MDB	304,799	8.17
	Afrânio Boppré	PSOL	116,189	3.11
	Luiz Barboza	NOVO	99,107	2.66
	Hilda Deola	PDT	66,496	1.78
	Gilmar Salgado	PSTU	2,657	0.07
Total			3,730,254	100.00
Valid votes			3,730,254	83.42
Invalid votes			361,227	8.08
Blank votes			380,138	8.50
Total votes			4,471,619	100.00
Registered voters/turnout			5,486,962	81.50
	PL gain from PSB

Popular vote Seif   39.79% Colombo   16.30% Berger   16.23% Nunes   11.89% Maldaner   8.17% Others   7.62%

Chamber of Deputies

Party or alliance				Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Liberal Party			962,053	24.23	6	6
	Brazil of Hope		Workers' Party	480,911	12.11	2
			Communist Party of Brazil	39,868	1.00	0
			Green Party	3,654	0.09	0
	Brazilian Democratic Movement			415,237	10.46	3
	Social Democratic Party			391,429	9.86	2	1
	Brazil Union			279,432	7.04	1	New
	New Party			243,668	6.14	1
	Progressistas			209,318	5.27	0	1
	Podemos			185,454	4.67	0
	Always Forward		Brazilian Social Democracy Party	138,407	3.49	0	1
			Cidadania	135,368	3.41	1
	Republicanos			120,494	3.04	0	1
	Patriota			71,669	1.81	0
	Brazilian Socialist Party			63,485	1.60	0	1
	Brazilian Labour Party			62,709	1.58	0
	PSOL REDE		Socialism and Liberty Party	60,893	1.53	0
			Sustainability Network	1,927	0.05	0
	Social Christian Party			35,820	0.90	0
	Democratic Labour Party			31,296	0.79	0
	Avante			12,509	0.32	0
	Solidariedade			10,955	0.28	0
	Republican Party of the Social Order			4,679	0.12	0
	Popular Unity			3,548	0.09	0	New
	Brazilian Labour Renewal Party			2,503	0.06	0
	Christian Democracy			1,490	0.04	0
	United Socialist Workers' Party			1,072	0.03	0
	Workers' Cause Party			0	0.00	0
Total				3,969,848	100.00	16	–
Valid votes				3,969,848	88.78
Invalid votes				180,335	4.03
Blank votes				321,436	7.19
Total votes				4,471,619	100.00
Registered voters/turnout				5,486,962	81.50

Legislative Assembly

Party or alliance				Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Liberal Party			878,708	21.95	11	8
	Brazilian Democratic Movement			505,571	12.63	6	3
	Brazil of Hope		Workers' Party	438,030	10.94	4
			Communist Party of Brazil	17,985	0.45	0
			Green Party	590	0.01	0	1
	Social Democratic Party			293,675	7.33	3	2
	Progressistas			280,551	7.01	3
	Brazil Union			265,764	6.64	3	New
	Podemos			237,137	5.92	3	3
	Always Forward		Brazilian Social Democracy Party	211,208	5.27	2
			Cidadania	25,109	0.63	0
	Republicanos			163,410	4.08	1
	New Party			136,632	3.41	1	1
	Brazilian Labour Party			96,767	2.42	1	1
	Brazilian Socialist Party			92,851	2.32	0	3
	Patriota			88,159	2.20	0
	PSOL REDE		Socialism and Liberty Party	83,044	2.07	1	1
			Sustainability Network	1,501	0.04	0
	Democratic Labour Party			82,141	2.05	1	1
	Christian Democracy			30,781	0.77	0
	Solidariedade			30,557	0.76	0
	Social Christian Party			30,036	0.75	0	1
	Avante			8,610	0.22	0
	Brazilian Labour Renewal Party			3,126	0.08	0
	United Socialist Workers' Party			1,083	0.03	0
	Republican Party of the Social Order			1,010	0.03	0
	Workers' Cause Party			0	0.00	0
Total				4,004,036	100.00	40	–
Valid votes				4,004,036	89.54
Invalid votes				178,518	3.99
Blank votes				289,065	6.46
Total votes				4,471,619	100.00
Registered voters/turnout				5,486,962	81.50

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