The 2016 São Paulo municipal election took place in the city of
São Paulo
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on the 2 October 2016. Voters voted to elect the Mayor, the Vice Mayor and 55 City Councillors for the administration of the city. The result was a 1st round victory for
João Doria
João Agripino da Costa Doria Júnior (; born 16 December 1957) is a Brazilian politician, businessman and journalist who served as Governor of São Paulo, from January 2019 to April 2022. He previously served as the 52nd Mayor of São Paulo f ...
of the
Brazilian Social Democratic Party
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(PSDB), winning 3,085,187 votes and a share of 53,28% of the popular vote, defeating incumbent mayor
Fernando Haddad
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of the
Workers' Party
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(PT), who took 967,190 votes and a share of 16,70% of the popular vote. Although Haddad came in second place on the popular vote, he did not win any electoral zone, while
Marta Suplicy
Marta Teresa Smith de Vasconcellos Suplicy (; born 18 March 1945) is a Brazilian politician, sexologist and psychologist. She was Mayor of São Paulo from 2001 to 2004. She later served as the Brazilian Minister of Tourism between 14 March 2007 ...
(PMDB), who came in fourth place, managed to win a plurality of the votes in 2 electoral zones.
Background
The campaign happened in the context of the ongoing political crisis and the fallout after the recently
impeached
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In Eu ...
president
Dilma Rousseff
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, of the
Workers' Party
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(PT).
This event played a huge role in the election, which would see a weakened Worker's Party (PT). The election saw the resurgence of the
Brazilian Social Democratic Party
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(PSDB) with Doria emerging as their leading candidate in opposition to the Worker's Party, which was suffering a steady decline following Dilma's impeachment.
Incumbent mayor Fernando Haddad ran a reelection campaign on keeping the left-wing status-quo, in contrast to Doria's campaign, which emphasized mostly socially liberal economic reforms, as part of the "liberal wave" following the fallout of Dilma's impeachment. Among other candidates were
Celso Russomano (
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),
Marta Suplicy
Marta Teresa Smith de Vasconcellos Suplicy (; born 18 March 1945) is a Brazilian politician, sexologist and psychologist. She was Mayor of São Paulo from 2001 to 2004. She later served as the Brazilian Minister of Tourism between 14 March 2007 ...
(
PMDB
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), Altino Prazeres (
PSTU), Ricardo Young (
REDE
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Rede may refer to:
People
* Edward Rede (by 147 ...
), João Bico (
PSDC),
Levy Fidelix
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(
PRTB),
Luiza Erundina
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Political history
From 1980 to 1997, she was affiliated with the Workers' Party (Brazil ...
(
PSOL) and
Major Olímpio (
SD).
Candidates
Debates
Opinion polls
Results
Mayor
Municipal Chamber
References
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2016
2016 was designated as:
* International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly.
* International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...
2016 elections in Brazil
October 2016 in South America
Politics of São Paulo