2016 Rio de Janeiro mayoral election

2016 Rio de Janeiro mayoral election
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Opinion polls
Turnout75.72% (first round)
73.15% (second round)
 
Candidate Marcelo Crivella Marcelo Freixo
Party PRB PSOL
Alliance For a More Human Rio Change is Possible
popular vote 1,700,030 1,163,662
Percentage 59.36% 40.64%
Mayor before election

Eduardo Paes
PMDB

Elected mayor

Marcelo Crivella
PRB

The 2016 Rio de Janeiro municipal election took place on 2 October and 30 October 2016[1] to elect a Mayor, a Vice Mayor and 51 City Councillors for the administration of the city. The incumbent Mayor, Eduardo Paes of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB), was term-limited and couldn't run for re-election. The election took place against a backdrop of mass protests and the impeachment of president Dilma Rousseff of the Workers' Party (PT) earlier that year.[2]

  1. ^ Prazeres, Leandro (9 July 2015). "Câmara aprova novas regras para eleições; veja o que pode mudar" (in Portuguese). UOL. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  2. ^ Watts, Jonathan (1 September 2016). "Brazil's Dilma Rousseff impeached by senate in crushing defeat". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 March 2020.