2014 Maranhão gubernatorial election

The Maranhão gubernatorial election was held on 5 October 2014 to elect the next governor of the state of Maranhão in Brazil. 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 Roseana was ineligible to run due to term limits. Former Embratur President Dino, who lost to Sarney in 2010, won a landslide election against Senator Lobão Filho to become the sole Governor from one of the two Communist parties.^[2]

2014 Maranhão gubernatorial election

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Nominee Flávio Dino Lobão Filho Party PCdoB MDB Running mate Brandão Melo Popular vote 1.877.064 995.619 Percentage 63,52% 33,69%

Governor before election Roseana Sarney MDB Elected Governor Flávio Dino PCdoB

Candidates

Candidate	Running mate	Coalition
Lobão Filho PMDB	Arnaldo Melo PMDB	"Foward Maranhão" (PMDB, PT, DEM, PEN, PHS, PMN, PR, PRB, PRP, PRTB, PSC, PSD, PSDC, PSL, PTB, PTdoB, PTN, PV)
Saulo Arcangeli PSTU	Ana Paula Martins PSTU	-
Prof. Josivaldo PCB	Francinaldo Leite PCB	-
Pedrosa PSOL	Prof. Odivio Neto PSOL	-
Zeluis Lago PPL	Jansen PPL	-
Flávio Dino PCdoB	Carlos Brandão PSDB	"All By Maranhão" (PCdoB, PSDB, PSB, PPS, PP, SDD, PDT, PTC, PROS)

Opinion Polling

Date	Institute[3]	Candidate						Blank/Null/Undecided
		Flávio Dino (PCdoB)	Lobão Filho (PMDB)	Pedrosa (PSOL)	Saulo Arcângeli (PSTU)	Zeluis Lago (PPL)	Josivaldo Correa (PCB)
September 17–19, 2014	Vox Populi	48%	27%	-	-	-	-	24%

Results

Maranhão Gubernatorial Election^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PCdoB	Flávio Dino	1,877,064	63.52%
	MDB	Lobão Filho	995,619	33.69%
	PSOL	Pedrosa	33,749	1.14%
	PSTU	Saulo Arcangeli	27,304	0.92%
	PPL	Zeluis Lago	17,650	0.60%
	PCB	Prof. Josivaldo	3,574	0.12%
Majority			881,445	29.83%
	PCdoB hold		Swing