2020 Rio de Janeiro mayoral election

The 2020 Rio de Janeiro municipal election took place in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in November 2020^[1] to elect a mayor, a vice mayor, and 51 city councillors for the administration of the city. On the 29 November 2020 run-off election, former mayor Eduardo Paes, of the Democrats (DEM), defeated incumbent mayor Marcelo Crivella of the Republicans (REP), who lost his bid for re-election.^[2]

2020 Rio de Janeiro municipal election

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2020 Rio de Janeiro Mayoral election
Opinion polls
Turnout	67.21% (first round) 64.55% (second round)
Candidate Eduardo Paes Marcelo Crivella Party DEM Republicanos Alliance The Certainty of a Better Rio With God, for the Family and for Rio Popular vote 1,629,319 913,700 Percentage 64.07% 35.93%
Mayor before election Marcelo Crivella Republicanos Elected mayor Eduardo Paes DEM
Parliamentary election
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/– Municipal Chamber Republicanos 11.07 7 +4 PSOL Tarcísio Motta 10.95 7 +1 DEM 10.37 7 +3 PSD 4.65 3 +1 PT Reimont Otoni 4.43 3 +1 Avante 4.40 3 +2 PL 4.17 2 +2 Cidadania 3.81 3 +3 PSC Elitusalem Gomes 3.78 2 −1 PTB 3.23 2 −1 Solidarity 2.89 1 −1 PMN 2.75 1 −1 PSL 2.53 1 +1 PDT Fernando William 2.37 1 −1 PTC 2.27 1 +1 DC 2.27 1 +1 MDB 1.84 1 −9 PSDB 0.73 0 −3 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

Candidates

Candidates in runoff

#		Party	Mayoral candidate		Political office(s)	Vice-Mayoral candidate	Coalition
	10	Republicans (REP)		Marcelo Crivella (REP)	Mayor of Rio de Janeiro 2017–present; Senator for Rio de Janeiro 2003–2017, Minister for Fishing and Aquaculture 2012–2014	Andréa Firmo (REP)	With God, for the Family and for Rio REP, PATRI, SD, PODE, PP, PRTB, PTC, PMN
	25	Democrats (DEM)		Eduardo Paes (DEM)	Mayor of Rio de Janeiro 2009–2017; State Secretary of Tourism, Sport and Leisure of Rio de Janeiro 2007–2008; Federal Deputy from Rio de Janeiro 1999–2007; City Councillor of Rio de Janeiro 1997–1999; Sub-Mayor of Barra da Tijuca and Jacarepaguá 1993–1997.	Nilton Caldeira (PL)	The Certainty of a Better Rio DEM, PL, PSDB, PV, DC, AVANTE, CDN

Candidates failing to make runoff

#		Party	Mayoral candidate		Political office(s)	Vice-Mayoral candidate	Coalition
	12	Democratic Labour Party (PDT)		Martha Rocha (PDT)	State Deputy of Rio de Janeiro 2015–present	Anderson Quack (PSB)	United for Rio PDT, PSB
	13	Workers' Party (PT)		Benedita da Silva (PT)	Federal Deputy from Rio de Janeiro 1987–95, 2011–present; Governor of Rio de Janeiro 2002–03; Vice Governor of Rio de Janeiro 1999–2002; Senator for Rio de Janeiro 1995–1998; City Councillor of Rio de Janeiro 1983–1987	Rejane de Almeida (PCdoB)	It's the People's Time PT, PCdoB
	15	Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB)		Paulo Messina (MDB)	City Councillor of Rio de Janeiro 2017–present	Sheila Barbosa (MDB)	MDB
	16	United Socialist Workers' Party (PSTU)		Cyro Garcia (PSTU)	Federal Deputy from Rio de Janeiro 1993; President of the Rio de Janeiro Bank Clerks' Union 1989–1990, 1991–1993, 1996–1997; President of the Rio de Janeiro branch of the United Socialist Workers' Party, 1994–present	Elisa Guimarães (PSTU)	PSTU
	17	Social Liberal Party (PSL)		Luiz Lima (PSL)	Federal Deputy of Rio de Janeiro 2019–present	Fernando Veloso (PSD)	Rio Has Options PSL, PSD
	18	Sustainability Network (REDE)		Eduardo Bandeira de Mello (REDE)	President of Flamengo Rowing Club 2013–2018	Andrea Gouvêa Vieira (REDE)	REDE
	20	Social Christian Party (PSC)		Glória Heloiza (PSC)	Judge of the 2nd Court of the Childhood, Youth and the Elderly of the Justice Court of Rio de Janeiro 1996–2020	Mauro Santos (PSC)	Social Christian Party (PSC)
	29	Workers' Cause Party (PCO)		Henrique Simonard (PCO)	Student activist	Caetano Sigiliano (PCO)	PCO
	30	New Party (NOVO)		Fred Luz (NOVO)	CEO of Flamengo Rowing Club 2014–2018	Giselle Gomes (NOVO)	NOVO
	35	Brazilian Woman's Party (PMB)		Sued Haidar (PMB)	President of the Party of the Brazilian Woman 2015–present	Jéssica Natalino (PMB)	PMB
	50	Socialism and Liberty Party (PSOL)		Renata Souza (PSOL)	State Deputy of Rio de Janeiro 2019–present	Íbis Silva Pereira (PSOL)	A Rio of Hope PSOL, PCB, UP
	90	Republican Party of the Social Order (PROS)		Clarissa Garotinho (PROS)	Federal Deputy from Rio de Janeiro 2015–present; State Secretary for Development, Employment and Innovation 2017–2018; State Deputy of Rio de Janeiro 2011–2015; City Councillor of Rio de Janeiro 2009–2011	Jorge Coutinho (PROS)	PROS

Withdrawn candidates

• Alessandro Molon (PSB) - Federal Deputy from Rio de Janeiro since 2011; State Deputy of Rio de Janeiro 2003–2011. Candidate for Mayor of Rio de Janeiro in 2016.^[3][4]
• Arolde de Oliveira (PSD) - Senator from Rio de Janeiro since 2019; Federal Deputy from Rio de Janeiro 1984–2019.^[5][4]
• Bruno Kazuhiro (DEM) - National President of the Democrats' Youth since 2014.^[6][4]
• Cabo Daciolo (PL) - Federal Deputy from Rio de Janeiro 2015−2019. Candidate for President of Brazil in 2018.^[7][4][8]
• Carlo Caiado (DEM) - City Councillor of Rio de Janeiro 2013–2019; State Deputy of Rio de Janeiro since 2019.^[6][4]
• Hélio Lopes (PSL) - Federal Deputy from Rio de Janeiro since 2019.^[9][10][4]
• Hugo Leal (PSD) - Federal Deputy for Rio de Janeiro 2007–present; State Deputy of Rio de Janeiro 1999–2006.
• Luiz Paulo Corrêa da Silva (PSDB) - State Deputy of Rio de Janeiro since 2003; Vice Governor of Rio de Janeiro 1995–1999.^[2][4]
• Marcelo Calero (CDN) - Federal Deputy from Rio de Janeiro since 2019; Minister of Culture 2016.^[11]
• Marcelo Freixo (PSOL) - Federal Deputy from Rio de Janeiro since 2019; State Deputy of Rio de Janeiro 2007–2019.^{[2][10][4][12]}
• Mariana Ribas (PSDB) - Municipal Secretary of Culture of Rio de Janeiro; Director of Ancine 2018−2019.^{[10][13][14][4]}
• Otoni de Paula (PSC) - Federal Deputy from Rio de Janeiro since 2019; City Councillor of Rio de Janeiro 2017–2019.^[15][16][4]
• Paulo Marinho (PSDB) - Businessman.^[17][18]
• Paulo Rabello de Castro (PSC) - Former president of BNDES 2017–2018; former president of IBGE 2016–2017.^[19][4]
• Pedro Fernandes Neto (PSC) - State Secretary of Education of Rio de Janeiro since 2019; State Deputy of Rio de Janeiro 2007–2019; Municipal Secretary of Social Assistance and Human Rights of Rio de Janeiro 2017–2018; State Secretary of Science, Technology, Innovation and Social Development of Rio de Janeiro 2017; State Secretary of Social Assistance and Human Rights of Rio de Janeiro 2014, 2017; Municipal Secretary of the Environment of Rio de Janeiro 2008.^[2][15][4]
• Rodrigo Amorim (PSL - State Deputy of Rio de Janeiro since 2019.^[2][20]
• Indio da Costa (Independent) - Federal Deputy from Rio de Janeiro 2007–2011, 2015–2019; Municipal Secretary of Urbanism, Infrastructure and Housing of Rio de Janeiro 2017–2018; Municipal Secretary of Administration of Rio de Janeiro 2001–2006; City Councillor of Rio de Janeiro 1997–2006.^[2]

• 
  Federal Deputy
  Alessandro Molon (PSB)
  from Belo Horizonte
• 
  Senator
  Arolde de Oliveira (PSD)
  from São Luiz Gonzaga
• 
  President of Democrats' Youth
  Bruno Kazuhiro (DEM)
  from Rio de Janeiro
• 
  Former Federal Deputy
  Cabo Daciolo (PL)
  from Florianópolis
• 
  State Deputy
  Carlo Caiado (DEM)
  from Goiânia
• 
  Federal Deputy
  Hélio Lopes (PSL)
  from Rio de Janeiro
• 
  Federal Deputy
  Hugo Leal (PSD)
  from Rio de Janeiro
• 
  State Deputy
  Luiz Paulo Corrêa da Rocha (PSDB)
  from Rio de Janeiro
• 
  Federal Deputy
  Marcelo Calero (CDN)
  from Rio de Janeiro
• 
  Federal Deputy
  Marcelo Freixo (PSOL)
  from São Gonçalo
• 
  Former Municipal Secretary
  Mariana Ribas (PSDB)
  from Rio de Janeiro
• 
  Federal Deputy
  Otoni de Paula (PL)
  from Niterói
• 
  Former President of BNDES
  Paulo Rabello de Castro (PSC)
  from Rio de Janeiro
• 
  State Secretary of Education
  Pedro Fernandes Neto (PSC)
  from Rio de Janeiro
• 
  State Deputy
  Rodrigo Amorim (PSL)
  from Rio de Janeiro
• 
  Former Federal Deputy
  Indio da Costa
  from Rio de Janeiro

Opinion polls

Polling aggregates

Active candidates

Eduardo Paes (DEM)

Marcelo Crivella (REP)

Martha Rocha (PDT)

Benedita da Silva (PT)

Luiz Lima (PSL)

Renata Souza (PSOL)

Others

Abstentions/Undecided

First round

Published after the campaign's start

Pollster/client(s)	Date(s) conducted	Sample size	Paes DEM	Crivella REP	Rocha PDT	Silva PT	Mello REDE	Garotinho PROS	Lima PSL	Souza PSOL	Garcia PSTU	Messina MDB	Luz NOVO	Heloiza PSC	Haidar PMB	Simonard PCO	Abst. Undec.	Lead
2020 Election	15 Nov	2,633,322	37.01%	21.90%	11.30%	11.27%	2.48%	0.46%	6.85%	3.24%	0.11%	2.93%	1.76%	0.52%	0.15%	0.02%	19.23%	15.11%
Ibope (exit poll)	15 Nov[a]	5,000	33%	17%	9%	12%	2%	1%	5%	2%	<1%	2%	1%	<1%	<1%	<1%	15%	16%
IBOPE	12–14 Nov	1,204	35%	14%	9%	11%	3%	0%	5%	2%	0%	2%	2%	0%	0%	0%	16%	21%
Paraná Pesquisas	29 Oct–1 Nov	910	27.7%	14.1%	14%	8.2%	3.2%	1.2%	4.2%	1.9%	0.7%	1.2%	1.2%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%	21.8%	13.6%
RealTime BigData	26–28 Oct	1,000	31%	12%	13%	10%	3%	3%	4%	4%	0%	1%	2%	0%	0%	1%	15%	18%
IBOPE	28–30 Oct	1,204	32%	14%	14%	9%	2%	0%	4%	2%	0%	1%	1%	0%	0%	0%	20%	18%
Datafolha[21]	20–21 Oct	1,008	28%	13%	13%	10%	3%	1%	4%	5%	2%	0%	1%	1%	0%	0%	20%	15%
RealTime BigData	14–17 Oct	1,050	31%	11%	9%	7%	3%	1%	2%	2%	0%	1%	1%	0%	0%	0%	32%	20%
IBOPE	13–15 Oct	1,001	30%	12%	8%	7%	3%	1%	3%	3%	2%	1%	0%	0%	-	0%	28%	18%
RealTime Big Data	13–15 Oct	1,000	31%	15%	12%	10%	5%	3%	2%	3%	0%	1%	1%	0%	<1%	<1%	24%	16%
DataFolha	5–6 Oct	900	30%	14%	10%	8%	3%	1%	1%	3%	2%	1%	1%	<1%	<1%	<1%	25%	16%
IBOPE	30 Sep–2 Oct	805	27%	12%	8%	7%	2%	2%	1%	2%	3%	<1%	<1%	<1%	<1%	<1%	35%	15%
Exame/Ideia	25–29 Sep	800	26%	17%	12%	10%	4%	2%	1%	2%	1%	1%	1%	1%	1%	0%	22%	9%
Paraná Pesquisas	20–24 Sep	910	25.1%	13.6%	11.8%	7.3%	3.6%	2.2%	1.9%	1,6%	1.0%	0.9%	0.8%	0.7%	0.7%	0.1%	28.0%	11.5%

Published before the campaign's start

Pollster/client(s)	Date(s) conducted	Sample size	Paes DEM	Crivella REP	Rocha PDT	Daciolo PL	Alencar PSOL	Motta PSOL	Freixo PSOL	Molon PSB/REDE	Mello REDE	Silva PT	Others	Abst. Undec.	Lead
Paraná Pesquisas	15–19 Aug	910	29.5%	15.7%	10.1%	5.2%	-	–	-	–	-	7.4%	7.7%	24.5%	14.5%
			28.6%	15.4%	9.3%	5.1%	–	–	-	-	-	7.0%	11.9%	22.9%	13.2%
Instituto VER	20–23 May	1,000	31.3%	10.8%	6.8%	–	4.5%	–	–	2.9%	–	2.1%	2.2%	39.3%	20.5%
			25.1%	9.6%	6.0%	–	–	3.8%	–	3.1%	–	6.6%	1.5%	42.8%	15.5%
15 Mar 2020		Marcelo Freixo drops out of the race
Paraná Pesquisas	14–19 Mar	910	27.9%	13.1%	10.1%	–	–	–	13.4%	–	3.6%	4.3%	7.5%	20.9%	14.5%
			29.5%	13.1%	12.0%	–	–	–	14.5%	–	4.3%	–	4.0%	22.6%	15.0%
Datafolha	11–13 Dec 2019	872	22%	8%	7%	–	–	–	18%	2%	6%	4%	5%	27%	3%
2016 election	2 Oct 2016	–	–	27.78%	–	–	–	–	18.26%	1.43%	–	–	52.50%	18.27%	9.52%

Second round

Pollster/client(s)	Date(s) conducted	Sample size	Paes DEM	Crivella REP	Abst. Undec.	Lead
2020 election	29 Nov	–	64.07%	35.93%	18.80%	28.14%
Ibope	23–25 Nov	1,001	53%	28%	19%	25%
Datafolha	16–18 Nov	1,254	54%	21%	25%	33%
Ibope	16–18 Nov	1,001	53%	23%	23%	30%
RealTime Big Data/CNN Brasil	16–17 Nov	1,050	71%	29%	–	43%

Debates

2020 São Paulo mayoral election debates
No.	Date and location	Hosts	Moderators	Participants[b]
Key:  P  Present  A  Absent  Out  Out of the election				DEM	Republicanos	PT	PSL	PSC	PDT	PROS	PSOL	MDB	NOVO	REDE
				Paes	Crivella	Silva	Lima	Heloiza	Rocha	Garotinho	Souza	Messina	Luz	Mello
1.1	Thursday, 1 October 2020 Rio de Janeiro, Vila Isabel	Band	Carlos Andreazza	P	P	P	P	P	P	P	P	P	P	P
2.1	Tuesday, 17 November 2020 Rio de Janeiro, Ventura Corporate Towers	CNN Brazil	Monalisa Perrone	A	P	Out
2.2	Thursday, 19 November 2020 Rio de Janeiro, Vila Isabel	Band	Mariana Procópio	P	P
2.3	Friday, 27 November 2020 São Paulo, Jacarepaguá	Globo	Ana Paula Araújo	P	P

Municipal Chamber

The result of the last municipal election and the current situation in the Municipal Chamber is given below:

Affiliation		Members
		Elected[24]	Current[25]
	MDB	10	1
	PSOL	6	6
	DEM	4	8
	Republicanos	3	6
	PSDB	3	0
	PSC	3	3
	PTB	3	1
	PT	2	2
	PDT	2	2
	PP	2	6
	Solidarity	2	2
	PHS	2	0
	PSD	2	3
	PMN	2	1
	NOVO	1	0
	PROS	1	1
	Patriota	1	1
	Avante	1	1
	PODE	1	2
	DC	0	1
	Cidadania	0	2
	PL	0	1
	PTC	0	1
Total		51

Results

Mayor

Candidate		Running mate	Party	First round		Second round
				Votes	%	Votes	%
	Eduardo Paes	Nilton Caldeira (PL)	DEM	974,804	37.01	1,629,319	64.07
	Marcelo Crivella (incumbent)	Andréa Firmo (PRTB)	Republicanos	576,825	21.90	913,700	35.93
	Martha Rocha	Anderson Quack (PSB)	PDT	297,751	11.30
	Benedita da Silva	Rejane de Almeida (PCdoB)	PT	296,847	11.27
	Luiz Lima	Fernando Veloso (PSD)	PSL	180,336	6.85
	Renata Souza	Íbis Pereira	PSOL	85,272	3.24
	Paulo Messina	Shiela Barbosa	MDB	77,093	2.93
	Bandeira de Mello	Andréa Gouvêa	REDE	65,296	2.48
	Fred Luz	Giselle Gomes	NOVO	46,246	1.76
	Glória Heloiza	Mauro Santos	PSC	13,816	0.52
	Clarissa Garotinho	Jorge Coutinho	PROS	12,178	0.46
	Suêd Haidar	Jessica Natalino	PMB	3,833	0.15
	Cyro Garcia	Elisa Guimarães	PSTU	3,025	0.11
	Henrique Simonard	Caetano Sigiliano	PCO	589	0.02
Total				2,633,911	100.00	2,543,019	100.00
Valid votes				2,633,911	80.77	2,543,019	81.20
Invalid votes				413,962	12.69	431,104	13.77
Blank votes				213,138	6.54	157,610	5.03
Total votes				3,261,011	100.00	3,131,733	100.00
Registered voters/turnout				4,851,887	67.21	4,851,887	64.55
Source: G1

Popular vote (first round) Paes   37.01% Crivella   21.90% Rocha   11.30% Silva   11.27% Lima   6.85% Souza   3.24% Others   8.42%

Popular vote (second round) Paes   64.07% Crivella   35.93%

Municipal Chamber

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Republicanos	294,298	11.15	7	3
	Socialism and Liberty Party	289,102	10.96	7	1
	Democrats	275,298	10.43	7	3
	Workers' Party	142,047	5.38	3	1
	Social Democratic Party	123,054	4.66	3	1
	Avante	116,350	4.41	3	2
	Progressistas	112,866	4.28	2
	Liberal Party	110,152	4.17	2	2
	Cidadania	100,458	3.81	2	2
	Social Christian Party	99,891	3.79	2	1
	Brazilian Labour Party	86,813	3.29	2	1
	Solidariedade	77,423	2.93	1	1
	New Party	74,445	2.82	1
	Party of National Mobilization	73,825	2.80	1	1
	Patriota	67,843	2.57	1
	Social Liberal Party	66,895	2.53	1	1
	Christian Labour Party	64,673	2.45	1	1
	Christian Democracy	64,371	2.44	1	1
	Democratic Labour Party	62,614	2.37	1	1
	Podemos	60,012	2.27	1
	Brazilian Democratic Movement	50,519	1.91	1	9
	Republican Party of the Social Order	46,753	1.77	1
	Brazilian Labour Renewal Party	37,422	1.42	0
	Brazilian Socialist Party	35,806	1.36	0
	Brazilian Woman's Party	27,506	1.04	0
	Communist Party of Brazil	27,436	1.04	0
	Brazilian Social Democracy Party	19,795	0.75	0	3
	Sustainability Network	15,710	0.60	0
	Green Party	6,533	0.25	0
	Popular Unity	3,754	0.14	0	New
	Brazilian Communist Party	3,467	0.13	0
	United Socialist Workers' Party	1,683	0.06	0
	Workers' Cause Party	153	0.01	0
Total		2,638,967	100.00	51	–
Valid votes		2,638,967	80.93
Invalid votes		381,614	11.70
Blank votes		240,094	7.36
Total votes		3,260,675	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		4,851,887	67.20
Source: G1

Notes

1. Exit poll conducted on election day.
2. Debates broadcast on television or radio were legally required to invite all candidates whose parties or coalitions had at least five members in the National Congress based on the most recent election.^[22] The candidates listed in this table satisfied this condition.^[23]