2008 Brazilian municipal elections

2008 Brazilian municipal elections
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Mayors and councillors of all the 5,568 municipalities of Brazil
  Majority party Minority party Third party
 
Leader Ricardo Berzoini Michel Temer Sérgio Guerra
Party PT MDB PSDB
Last election 411 mayors 1,059 mayors 870 mayors
Seats won 557 1,202 791
Seat change +146 +143 –79
Popular vote 16,468,094 18,491,822 14,537,570

Municipal elections were held in Brazil on October 5 and October 26, 2008.[1] Over 130 million voters chose mayors and city councillors for the 5,565 municipalities of Brazil.[2]

Brazilian law allowed candidates to run under ballot names different from their legal names. At least six candidates chose the ballot name "Barack Obama" [3] and some entrepreneurs used ballot names that make reference to their business.[4]

  1. ^ "Elections calendar" (in Portuguese). Tribunal Regional Eleitoral de São Paulo. Archived from the original on 2008-09-23.
  2. ^ "Elections statistics" (in Portuguese). Tribunal Superior Eleitoral. Archived from the original on 2011-07-24.
  3. ^ Tom Phillips (2008-09-15). "Now for Brazil's Barack Obamas - all six of them". The Guardian.
  4. ^ Rodrigo Bertolotto (2008-09-26). ""Candidato-empresa" aproveita eleição e promove sua firma" (in Portuguese). UOL Notícias.