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Mayor · 1996

The same election in mayor 1996

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ElectionMayor 1996

Eleição in Brazil

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The dashed year didn't have this election here: it opens the closest office, written below.

Round

All elections35 anos in Brazil, de 1933 a 2026

G é Eleição Geral: presidente, governador, senador e deputados. L é Eleição Local (municipal): prefeito e vereador. De 1933 a 1990 o TSE não publica cargo municipal, então esses anos são todos G.

The same office appears twice in the year a place voted on a different date from the rest of the country (because of a postponement, for example).

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In 1996, the TSE published the mayoral results for 5,408 municipalities; in 5,407 of them it declared the winner (in the others, the registration of the top vote-getter had been rejected or was under appeal). In the state capitals, 12 mayors were elected in the first round and 14 capitals went to the runoff; nationwide, 31 cities had a runoff. Nationwide, counting both rounds, PMDB elected the most mayors (1,306), followed by PFL (935) and PSDB (926). Adding up the votes of the candidates each party fielded in the first round, PSDB had the most votes: 13.1 million votes (17.65% of the votes cast for candidates).

Mayor is elected city by city. The number next to the abbreviation is how many cities in the state held this election.

Registered voters100,169,609
Turned out80,820,951
Abstentions19,348,658
Blank1,853,541

Registered voters: voters who could vote. Turnout: how many went to the polls. Abstentions: how many stayed away (registered voters − turnout). Blank and Null: those who turned out but did not choose a valid candidate. Valid: the votes that count for candidates (turnout − blank − null); percentages are calculated on them.

The TSE did not publish valid or null votes in 1996, so the percentage of valid votes is not shown.

5,407 city halls, split among 22 parties.

PMDBPartido do Movimento Democrático Brasileiro1,30624.15%
PFLPartido da Frente Liberal93517.29%
PSDBPartido da Social Democracia Brasileira92617.13%
PPBPartido Progressista Brasileiro62711.60%
PDTPartido Democrático Trabalhista4348.03%
PTBPartido Trabalhista Brasileiro3847.10%
PLPartido Liberal2244.14%
PSBPartido Socialista Brasileiro1502.77%
PSDPartido Social Democrático1202.22%
PTPartido dos Trabalhadores1142.11%
PSCPartido Social Cristão490.91%
PPSPartido Popular Socialista320.59%
PRPPartido Republicano Progressista310.57%
PMNPartido da Mobilização Nacional300.55%
PVPartido Verde130.24%
PSLPartido Social Liberal110.20%
PSTPartido Social Trabalhista90.17%
PT do BPartido Trabalhista do Brasil50.09%
PRTBPartido Renovador Trabalhista Brasileiro20.04%
PSDCPartido Social Democrata Cristão20.04%
PSNPartido Solidarista Nacional20.04%
PTNPartido Trabalhista Nacional10.02%

This is not a chamber. Each race here has a single winner; the bar adds up how many city halls each party won nationwide, which measures the party's strength in that election, not a caucus that meets together. Where there was a runoff, its result counts, and each place is counted only once. The total does not add up to 5,408: in 1 the TSE records no one elected: cases of a rejected registration or a dispute still being judged. And this total does not reach the number of municipalities in the country either: the Distrito Federal and Fernando de Noronha do not elect a mayor, and some municipalities had their election annulled and voted only in a supplementary election, counted separately. The party at the election counts: anyone who switched parties after taking office does not change this number.

We show only the state capitals, and the Distrito Federal does not elect a mayor. For any other city, use the search above.

The top two in each state capital who went to the final race.

Votes by party for mayor, 1996

Sum of the votes of the candidates each party ran, nationwide. Where the party backed a candidate from another party, those votes count for the other party; so the sum measures the strength of the party's own candidacies, not of the whole party.

PartyCandidatesVotes%
PSDB2,18713,081,25117.65%
PMDB2,99912,761,24917.22%
PFL2,23110,132,14013.67%
PPB1,5779,806,10913.23%
PT1,0777,909,12110.67%
PDT1,2216,925,6989.34%
PTB1,0794,361,0755.88%
PSB4912,817,3643.80%
PL6881,981,8322.67%
PSD3561,183,2211.60%
PSC261546,3160.74%
PRP161480,1650.65%
PPS162476,0720.64%
PMN198443,9750.60%
PSL109246,8110.33%
PV122242,2870.33%
PC do B51191,1760.26%
PT do B73146,8650.20%
PST63106,0730.14%
PSDC4466,7160.09%
PSTU4463,5990.09%
PSN1435,3980.05%
PAN1428,6530.04%
PRN2325,7010.03%
PTN1923,9990.03%
PRTB2218,9520.03%
PCB1012,7310.02%
PGT128,6480.01%
PCO52,476<0.01%