2014 Mato Grosso gubernatorial election

2014 Mato Grosso gubernatorial election
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PT
PSD
Nominee Pedro Taques Lúdio Cabral Janete Riva
Party PDT PT PSD
Running mate Carlos Fávaro Tetê Bezerra Aray Fonseca
Popular vote 833,788 472,507 144,440
Percentage 57.25% 32.45% 9.92%
Governor before election

Silval Barbosa
MDB

Elected Governor

Pedro Taques
PDT

The Mato Grosso gubernatorial election was held on 5 October 2014 to elect the next governor of the state of Mato Grosso. If no candidate had received more than 50% of the vote, a second-round runoff election would have been held on 26 October.[1] Governor Silval Barbosa did not run for a second term. Senator Pedro Taques of the PDT won election to the open seat in the first round.[2]

Candidates

  • Pedro Taques 12 (PDT) - Senator from Mato Grosso (elected in 2010)
    • Carlos Fávaro 12 (PP) - agricultural producer; former President of the Association of Corn and Soybean Producers (Aprosoja)[3]
  • Lúdio Cabral 13 (PT) - former Cuiabá Councillor (elected in 2004, 2008); candidate for Mayor of Cuiabá (2012)
  • Dr. José Roberto 50 (PSOL) - lawyer
    • Marco Natale 50 (PSOL) - accountant
  • Janete Riva 55 (PSD)
    • Dr. Aray 55 (PSD)

Coalitions

Opinion Polling

Results

Mato Grosso Gubernatorial Election[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
PDT Pedro Taques 833,788 57.25%
PT Lúdio Cabral 472,507 32.45%
PSD Janete Riva 144,440 9.92%
PSOL Dr. José Roberto 5,570 0.38%
Majority 361,281 24.80%
PDT gain from PT Swing

References

allikas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Mato_Grosso_gubernatorial_election