2026 Brazilian gubernatorial elections

Gubernatorial elections will be held in Brazil on 4 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 will be 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 2024 Brazilian municipal elections, According to Brazilian electoral law, no one candidate can be declared before July 2024, until then all quoted persons to be candidates are called pre-candidates or potential candidates.

2022 Brazilian gubernatorial elections

State	Outgoing Governor			Outgoing Vice Governor			Governor eligible for reelection	Ref
	Name	Party		Name	Party
AC	Gladson Cameli		PP	Mailza Gomes		PP	No	[1]
AL	Paulo Dantas		MDB	Ronaldo Lessa		PDT	No	[2]
AP	Clécio Luís		SD	Teles Junior		PDT	Yes	[3]
AM	Wilson Lima		UNIÃO	Tadeu de Souza		AVANTE	No
BA	Jerônimo Rodrigues		PT	Geraldo Júnior		MDB	Yes
CE	Elmano de Freitas		PT	Jade Romero		MDB	Yes
ES	Renato Casagrande		PSB	Ricardo Ferraço		MDB Elected PSDB	No
DF	Ibaneis Rocha		MDB	Celina Leão		PP	No
GO	Ronaldo Caiado		UNIÃO	Daniel Vilela		MDB	No
MA	Carlos Brandão		PSB	Felipe Camarão		PT	No
MT	Mauro Mendes		UNIÃO	Otaviano Pivetta		UNIÃO	No
MS	Eduardo Riedel		PSDB	José Carlos Barbosa		PP	Yes
MG	Romeu Zema		NOVO	Mateus Simões		NOVO	No
PR	Ratinho Júnior		PSD	Darci Piana		PSD	No
PB	João Azevêdo		PSB	Lucas Ribeiro		PP	No
PA	Helder Barbalho		MDB	Hana Ghassan		MDB	No
PE	Raquel Lyra		PSD Elected PSDB	Priscila Krause		PSD Elected Cidadania	Yes
PI	Rafael Fonteles		PT	Themístocles Filho		MDB	Yes
RJ	Cláudio Castro		PL	Thiago Pampolha		MDB Elected UNIÃO	No
RN	Fátima Bezerra		PT	Walter Alves		MDB	No
RS	Eduardo Leite		PSD Elected PSDB	Gabriel Souza		MDB	No
RO	Marcos Rocha		UNIÃO	Sérgio Gonçalves		UNIÃO	No
RR	Antonio Denarium		PP	Edilson Damião		REP	No
SC	Jorginho Mello		PL	Marilisa Boehm		PL	Yes
SP	Tarcísio de Freitas		REP	Felicio Ramuth		PSD	Yes
SE	Fábio Mitidieri		PSD	Zezinho Sobral		PSB	Yes
TO	Wanderlei Barbosa		REP	Laurez da Rocha Moreira		PDT	No

References

1. Venicios, Marcos (2025-05-28). "Pesquisa mostra cenário embolado para disputa do governo e senado no Acre | ac24horas | Notícias do Acre". ac24horas.com (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2025-07-03.
2. Gomes, Celio. "Eleições 2026 em Alagoas: o que vem aí?". Cadaminuto (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2025-07-03.
3. Pauta, Ponto da. "Mesmo sem se declarar candidato ao GEA, Dr. Furlan atinge 70,02% das intenções de voto". Ponto da Pauta. Retrieved 2025-07-03.