2022 Rio de Janeiro gubernatorial election
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The 2022 Rio de Janeiro state election will take place in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on 2 October 2022. Voters will elect a governor, vice governor, one senator, 46 representatives for the Chamber of Deputies, and 70 Legislative Assembly members. The incumbent governor, Cláudio Castro, a member of the Liberal Party, is eligible for a second term, and intends to run for reelection.[1]
Gubernatorial candidates[edit]
Potential candidates[edit]
Candidate name and party | Most recent political office | Party logo | Details | Ref. | ||
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Cláudio Castro Liberal Party (PL) |
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Governor of Rio de Janeiro (since 2021) |
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Born in Santos, São Paulo in 1979. Former Vice governor of Rio de Janeiro and city councillor of Rio de Janeiro. | [2] | |
Marcelo Freixo Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB) |
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Federal Deputy from Rio de Janeiro (since 2019) |
Born in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro. in 1967. Former state deputy of Rio de Janeiro (2007–2019). Candidate for mayor of Rio de Janeiro in 2012 and 2016. | [3] | ||
Felipe Santa Cruz Social Democratic Party (PSD) |
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President of the Order of Attorneys of Brazil (2019–2021) |
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Born in the city of Rio de Janeiro in 1972. Former president of the Order of Attorneys of Rio de Janeiro (2013–2015) and Former President of the Order of Attorneys of Brazil (2019–2021). | [4] | |
Paulo Ganime New Party (NOVO) |
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Federal Deputy from Rio de Janeiro (since 2019) |
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Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1982. Engineer. | [5] | |
Rodrigo Neves Democratic Labour Party (PDT) |
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Mayor of Niterói (2013–2020) |
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Born in São Gonçalo in 1976. Former state deputy of Rio de Janeiro (2007–2012) and City councillor of Rio de Janeiro (1998–2007) | [6] | |
Eduardo Serra Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) |
No prior public office | ![]() |
Teacher at the Institute of International Relations and Defense of Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). | [7] | ||
Cyro Garcia United Socialist Workers' Party (PSTU) |
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Federal Deputy from Rio de Janeiro (1992–1993) |
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Born in Manhumirim, Minas Gerais in 1954. Teacher, activist and former banker officer. | [8] |
Senatorial candidates[edit]
Potential candidates[edit]
Candidate name and party | Most recent political office | Party logo | Details | Ref. | ||
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Romário Liberal Party (PL) |
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Senator for Rio de Janeiro (since 2015) |
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Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1966. Former professional football player and federal deputy from Rio de Janeiro (2011–2015). | [9] | |
Alessandro Molon Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB) |
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Federal Deputy from Rio de Janeiro (since 2011) |
Born in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais in 1971. Former state deputy of Rio de Janeiro (2003–2011). Candidate for mayor of Rio de Janeiro in 2008 and 2016. | [10] | ||
André Ceciliano Workers' Party (PT) |
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President of the Legislative Assembly of Rio de Janeiro (since 2019) |
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Born in the city of Nilópolis, Rio de Janeiro in 1968. State deputy of Rio de Janeiro for two periods (1999-2000) and since 2011. Mayor of Paracambi (2001-2009). | [11] | |
Marcelo Crivella Republicanos |
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Mayor of Rio de Janeiro (2017-2021) |
Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1957. Brazilian Evangelical pastor, gospel singer and Senator for Rio de Janeiro (2003-2017) | [12] | ||
Clarissa Garotinho Brazil Union (UNIÃO) |
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Federal Deputy from Rio de Janeiro (since 2015) |
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Born in Campos dos Goytacazes, Rio de Janeiro in 1982. Former secretary for Development, Employment and Innovation for Rio de Janeiro (2017-2018). State deputy of Rio de Janeiro (2011-2015) and City councillor of Rio de Janeiro (2009-2011). | [13] | |
Cabo Daciolo Democratic Labour Party (PDT) |
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Federal Deputy from Rio de Janeiro (2015-2019) |
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Born in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina in 1976. Brazilian military firefighter and evangelical pastor. Candidate in the 2018 Brazilian presidential election. | [14] | |
Washington Reis Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB) |
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Mayor of Duque de Caxias (2017–2022) |
Born in Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro in 1967. Federal Deputy from Rio de Janeiro (2011-2017) and Mayor of Duque de Caxias (2005–2008). | [15] |
Legislative Assembly[edit]
The result of the last state election and the current situation in the Legislative Assembly is given below:
Affiliation | Members | +/– | ||
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Elected[16] | Current[17] | |||
PL | 1 | 13 | ![]() | |
Brazil Union | New | 11 | ![]() | |
SDD | 3 | 6 | ![]() | |
PSD | 3 | 5 | ![]() | |
PTB | 1 | 4 | ![]() | |
PSOL | 5 | 4 | ![]() | |
PSB | 1 | 3 | ![]() | |
Avante | 1 | 3 | ![]() | |
PSC | 2 | 3 | ![]() | |
PP | 2 | 3 | ![]() | |
REP | 3 | 3 | ![]() | |
PODE | 1 | 2 | ![]() | |
PROS | 1 | 2 | ![]() | |
PT | 3 | 2 | ![]() | |
PV | 0 | 1 | ![]() | |
PCdoB | 1 | 1 | ![]() | |
PATRI | 1 | 1 | ![]() | |
DC | 2 | 1 | ![]() | |
PDT | 3 | 1 | ![]() | |
MDB | 5 | 1 | ![]() | |
CDN | 1 | 0 | ![]() | |
PTC | 1 | 0 | ![]() | |
PRTB | 1 | 0 | ![]() | |
Party of the Brazilian Woman | 1 | 0 | ![]() | |
PSDB | 2 | 0 | ![]() | |
PRP | 2 | 0 | ![]() | |
PHS | 2 | 0 | ![]() | |
NOVO | 2 | 0 | ![]() | |
DEM | 6 | 0 | ![]() | |
PSL | 13 | 0 | ![]() | |
Total | 70 | – |
Opinion polls[edit]
Governor[edit]
First round – 2022
Pollster/client(s) | Date(s) conducted |
Sample size |
Freixo PSB |
Castro PL |
Neves PDT |
Ganime NOVO |
Cruz PSD |
Serra PCB |
Cyro PSTU |
Others | Abst. Undec. |
Lead |
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Quaest/Genial | 12–15 May 2022 | 1,200 | 18% | 25% | 8% | 2% | 1% | – | – | 2%[a] | 43% | 7% |
19% | 26% | 8% | 2% | 2% | – | – | – | 44% | 7% | |||
19% | 27% | 9% | 3% | – | – | – | – | 43% | 8% | |||
Datafolha | 5–7 Apr 2022 | 1,200 | 22% | 18% | 7% | 2% | 3% | 5% | 4% | – | 40% | 4% |
18% | 14% | 5% | 1% | 2% | 4% | 3% | 13%[b] | 39% | 4% | |||
Instituto GERP | 21–24 Mar 2022 | 1,500 | 24% | 21% | 14% | 1% | 1% | – | – | – | 39% | 3% |
Prefab Future | 17–20 Mar 2022 | 1,243 | 15,4% | 11% | 4,3% | 0,3% | 0,6% | – | – | 13,4%[c] | 55% | 2% |
16 March 2022–6 April 2022 | Hamilton Mourão joins Republicans and confirms his candidacy for the Senate seat of Rio Grande do Sul.[18] Rodrigo Maia gives up on his reelection bid.[19] | |||||||||||
Pollster/client(s) | Date(s)
conducted |
Sample
size |
Castro PL |
Freixo PSB |
Neves PDT |
Ganime NOVO |
Cruz Ind. |
Rocha PDT |
Mourão PRTB |
Others | Abst. Undec. |
Lead |
Quaest/Genial | 15–18 Mar 2022 | 1,200 | 21% | 17% | 9% | 1% | 3% | – | – | 4%[d] | 45% | 4% |
22% | 18% | 10% | 2% | 3% | – | – | – | 46% | 4% | |||
24% | 20% | – | 4% | 4% | – | – | – | 48% | 4% | |||
23% | 18% | 10% | 2% | – | – | – | – | 46% | 5% | |||
Real Time Big Data | 12–15 Mar 2022 | 1,500 | 23% | 24% | 10% | 1% | 2% | – | – | 2%[e] | 38% | 1% |
25% | 25% | 11% | 1% | – | – | – | – | 38% | Tie | |||
Quaest Pesquisa | 22–26 Oct 2021 | 1,804 | 14% | 19% | 4% | – | – | – | – | 26%[f] | 38% | 7% |
16% | 25% | 7% | – | 3% | – | – | – | 49% | 9% | |||
12% | 23% | 6% | – | 3% | – | 17% | – | 39% | 6% | |||
Real Time Big Data | 28–29 Sep 2021 | 1,200 | 18% | 25% | 9% | – | 2% | – | – | – | 46% | 7% |
18% | 25% | 10% | – | – | – | – | – | 47% | 7% | |||
EXAME/IDEIA | 23–26 Aug 2021 | 2,000 | 21% | 22% | 7% | – | – | – | – | 16%[g] | 33% | 1% |
Instituto GERP | 10–17 Aug 2021 | 1,200 | 6% | 12% | 7% | – | – | – | 18% | 15%[h] | 42% | 3% |
11% | 17% | 12% | – | – | – | – | – | 60% | 5% | |||
Atlas Intel | 18–22 June 2021 | 807 | 20.2% | 33% | 4,4% | 3,4% | 2,2% | – | – | – | 36,8% | 12,8% |
19.1% | 31.8% | – | 3.5% | 4% | 1,8% | – | – | 39,9% | 12,7% | |||
Paraná Pesquisas | 28 May–1 June 2021 | 1,530 | 16.3% | 23.8% | – | – | 2.1% | 23,1% | – | – | 34,7% | 0,7% |
15.6% | 23.5% | – | – | – | – | – | 26,4%[i] | 34,5% | 2,9% | |||
16.7% | 25.2% | 7% | – | – | – | – | 14,8%[j] | 36.3% | 8,5% | |||
13% | 20.5% | 1.3% | – | – | 14,7% | – | 21,3%[k] | 29.2% | 0,8% |
Second round
Castro vs. Freixo
Pollster/client(s) | Date(s)
conducted |
Sample
size |
Castro PL |
Freixo PSB |
Abst. Undec. |
Lead |
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Quaest/Genial | 12–15 May 2022 | 1,200 | 38% | 27% | 35% | 11% |
Quaest/Genial [l] | 12–15 May 2022 | 1,200 | 37% | 40% | 22% | 3% |
Quaest/Genial | 15–18 Mar 2022 | 1,200 | 34% | 30% | 37% | 4% |
Quaest/Genial [m] | 12–15 May 2022 | 1,200 | 36% | 41% | 23% | 5% |
Atlas Intel | 18–22 June 2021 | 807 | 31% | 37.3% | 31.7% | 6.3% |
Neves vs. Freixo
Pollster/client(s) | Date(s)
conducted |
Sample
size |
Freixo PSB |
Neves PDT |
Abst. Undec. |
Lead |
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Quaest/Genial | 12–15 May 2022 | 1,200 | 31% | 27% | 44% | 4% |
Quaest/Genial | 15–18 Mar 2022 | 1,200 | 29% | 24% | 47% | 5% |
Atlas Intel | 18–22 June 2021 | 807 | 34.6% | 14.4% | 51% | 20;2% |
Rocha vs. Freixo
Pollster/client(s) | Date(s)
conducted |
Sample
size |
Freixo PSB |
Rocha PDT |
Abst. Undec. |
Lead |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Atlas Intel | 18–22 June 2021 | 807 | 36.2% | 14.1% | 49.7% | 22.1% |
Castro vs. Santa Cruz
Pollster/client(s) | Date(s)
conducted |
Sample
size |
Castro PL |
Santa Cruz Indep. |
Abst. Undec. |
Lead |
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Quaest/Genial | 15–18 Mar 2022 | 1,200 | 39% | 15% | 47% | 24% |
Castro vs. Ganime
Pollster/client(s) | Date(s)
conducted |
Sample
size |
Castro PL |
Ganime NOVO |
Abst. Undec. |
Lead |
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Quaest/Genial | 15–18 Mar 2022 | 1,200 | 40% | 11% | 49% | 29% |
Castro vs. Neves
Pollster/client(s) | Date(s)
conducted |
Sample
size |
Castro PL |
Neves PDT |
Abst. Undec. |
Lead |
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Quaest/Genial | 12–15 May 2022 | 1,200 | 38% | 24% | 38% | 14% |
Quaest/Genial | 15–18 Mar 2022 | 1,200 | 36% | 20% | 44% | 16% |
Senator[edit]
Pollster/client(s) | Date(s) conducted |
Sample size |
Romário PL |
Crivella Republicanos |
Garotinho UNIÃO |
Molon PSB |
Reis MDB |
Ceciliano PT |
Others | Abst. Undec. |
Lead |
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Quaest/Genial | 12–15 May 2022 | 1,200 | 19% | 11% | 6% | 10% | 3% | 2% | 7%[n] | 41% | 8% |
25% | 16% | – | 11% | 5% | 4% | – | 39% | 9% | |||
– | – | 11% | 14% | 13% | – | 15%[o] | 46% | 1% | |||
27% | – | 10% | – | 11% | 6% | 8%[p] | 38% | 16% | |||
Instituto GERP | 21–24 Mar 2022 | 1,500 | 18% | 9% | 6% | 18% | 7% | 1% | 4%[q] | 37% | Tie |
Prefab Future | 17–20 Mar 2022 | 1,243 | 21,4% | 11,4% | 7,2% | 5,5% | 3,9% | 2,2% | – | 48,4% | 10% |
16 March 2022–6 April 2022 | Hamilton Mourão joins Republicans and confirms his candidacy for the Senate seat of Rio Grande do Sul.[18] | ||||||||||
Pollster/client(s) | Date(s) conducted |
Sample size |
Romário PL |
Crivella Republicanos |
Molon PSB |
Otoni PSC |
Reis MDB |
D'Ângelo PDT |
Others | Abst. Undec. |
Lead |
Quaest/Genial | 15–18 Mar 2022 | 1,200 | 25% | 14% | 7% | 4% | 6% | – | 14%[r] | 31% | 11% |
29% | 16% | 8% | – | 7% | – | 5%[s] | 34% | 13% | |||
– | – | 11% | 7% | 13% | – | 19%[t] | 51% | 6% | |||
29% | – | – | 7% | 10% | – | 15%[u] | 39% | 14% | |||
Quaest Pesquisa | 22–26 Oct 2021 | 1,804 | 19% | 12% | 12% | 5% | 6% | – | 10%[v] | 29% | 7% |
20% | 12% | 10% | 4% | 5% | – | 22%[w] | 21% | 2% | |||
Instituto GERP | 10–17 Aug 2021 | 1,200 | 10% | 9% | 10% | – | 4% | – | 26%[x] | 41% | 16% |
– | 11% | 11% | – | 5% | – | 26%[y] | 47% | 15% | |||
Paraná Pesquisas | 28 May–1 June 2021 | 1,530 | 14,6% | 13,9% | 8,5% | 4,4% | 4,4% | 1,2% | 24,3%[z] | 22,5% | 9,7% |
19,6% | 16,1% | 13,8% | 6,1% | 7,1% | 1,8% | – | 27,5% | 3,5% |
Notes[edit]
- ^ André Ceciliano (PT) with 2%
- ^ Anthony Garotinho (UNIÃO) with 7%; General Santos Cruz (PODE) with 4% and André Ceciliano (PT) with 2%
- ^ Anthony Garotinho (UNIÃO) with 12,5%; Milton Temer (PSOL) with 0,5% and Ronaldo Gomlevsky (PL) with 0,4%
- ^ André Ceciliano (PT) with 4%
- ^ André Ceciliano (PT) with 2%
- ^ Eduardo Paes (PSD) with 26%
- ^ Eduardo Paes (PSD) with 16%
- ^ Eduardo Paes (PSD) with 15%
- ^ Washington Reis (MDB) with 8%; Bernardinho (NOVO) with 5,6% and Rodrigo Maia (Ind.) with 12,8%
- ^ Washington Reis (MDB) with 8.8%; Bernardinho (NOVO) with 6%
- ^ Luciano Huck (Ind.) with 21.3%
- ^ Possible electoral scenario where the presidential candidate Lula (PT) supports Marcelo Freixo (PSB) and Jair Bolsonaro (PL) supports Cláudio Castro (PL).
- ^ Possible electoral scenario where the presidential candidate Lula (PT) supports Marcelo Freixo (PSB) and Jair Bolsonaro (PL) supports Cláudio Castro (PL).
- ^ Daniel Silveira (PTB) with 4% and Otoni de Paula (MDB) with 3%
- ^ Daniel Silveira (PTB) with 8% and Otoni de Paula (MDB) with 7%
- ^ Otoni de Paula (MDB) with 8%
- ^ Felipe Santa Cruz (PSD) with 4%
- ^ Clarissa Garotinho (PROS) with 7%; André Ceciliano (PT) with 4% and Daniel Silveira (PTB) with 3%
- ^ André Ceciliano (PT) with 5%
- ^ Clarissa Garotinho (PROS) with 13% and Daniel Silveira (PTB) with 6%
- ^ Clarissa Garotinho (PROS) with 10% and André Ceciliano (PT) with 5%
- ^ Clarissa Garotinho (PROS) with 8% and André Ceciliano (PT) with 2%
- ^ Hamilton Mourão (PRTB) with 12%, Clarissa Garotinho (PROS) with 8% and André Ceciliano (PT) with 2%
- ^ Jandira Feghali (PCdoB) and Benedita da Silva (PT) with 8%; Anthony Garotinho (PROS) and Rodrigo Maia with 4%; Felipe Santa Cruz and André Ceciliano (PT) with 1%
- ^ Jandira Feghali (PCdoB) with 10%; Rodrigo Maia (Ind.) with 6%; Anthony Garotinho (PROS) with 5%; Felipe Santa Cruz (Ind.) with 3% and André Ceciliano (PT) with 2%
- ^ Benedita da Silva (PT) with 18,7% and Eduardo Pazuello (Ind.) with 5,6%
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