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Paraíba — State legislative assembly

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Brazil · Paraíba / PB · regional · State legislative assemblyBR-PB-A

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First round 4 October 2026; governor runoff 25 October where required. TSE ordinary-election returns aggregated once from state files, excluding the duplicate national BR file. Party votes are not governing coalition control. Legislative votes include nominal plus valid list votes. Judicial retotalizations and changed party labels require review. The 2014 file uses legacy nominal/list fields; later files separately identify valid, converted and subjudice votes. This is an explicit definition-comparability limitation.

1. What office, where, and when is the next election?

Geography
Paraíba / PB
Next election
2026-10-04
Linked upcoming event
next-1238d2c8e9f8949fb1993cbd
Registry qualification
Unknown

2. How certain is that date?

2026-10-04 is expected (not formally called). Day precision. A date without a formal call is not confirmed.

3. Who won earlier selected elections?

2022-10-02

unknown · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • REPUBLICANOS19.0%
  • PSB14.8%
  • PP10.4%
  • PSDB9.4%
  • UNIÃO9.1%
  • PL8.5%
  • PT5.8%
  • SOLIDARIEDADE5.8%
  • MDB4.8%
  • PSD4.6%
  • REDE2.9%
  • PC do B2.1%
  • PRTB0.7%
  • PTB0.4%
  • PSOL0.4%
  • PMB0.4%
  • PDT0.3%
  • DC0.3%
  • AGIR0.2%
  • CIDADANIA0.0%
  • PV0.0%
  • PROS0.0%
Results for event-a5a3c6117dc2a52b76b43eeb
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
REPUBLICANOSbrazil/S5cd0a4c40e/2022426,68219%8Recorded
PSBbrazil/S5cd0a4c40e/2022331,55414.8%6Recorded
PPbrazil/S5cd0a4c40e/2022233,79010.4%4Recorded
PSDBbrazil/S5cd0a4c40e/2022210,1209.4%3Recorded
UNIÃObrazil/S5cd0a4c40e/2022203,4469.1%3Recorded
PLbrazil/S5cd0a4c40e/2022191,2748.5%3Recorded
PTbrazil/S5cd0a4c40e/2022130,4495.8%2Recorded
SOLIDARIEDADEbrazil/S5cd0a4c40e/2022129,2525.8%2Recorded
MDBbrazil/S5cd0a4c40e/2022108,0144.8%2Recorded
PSDbrazil/S5cd0a4c40e/2022102,8754.6%1Recorded
REDEbrazil/S5cd0a4c40e/202265,5752.9%1Recorded
PC do Bbrazil/S5cd0a4c40e/202248,0992.1%1Recorded
PRTBbrazil/S5cd0a4c40e/202216,2690.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PTBbrazil/S5cd0a4c40e/20229,1140.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PSOLbrazil/S5cd0a4c40e/20228,7830.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PMBbrazil/S5cd0a4c40e/20228,4340.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PDTbrazil/S5cd0a4c40e/20227,4280.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
DCbrazil/S5cd0a4c40e/20226,5440.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
AGIRbrazil/S5cd0a4c40e/20224,4290.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
CIDADANIAbrazil/S5cd0a4c40e/20226430%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PVbrazil/S5cd0a4c40e/20225310%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PROSbrazil/S5cd0a4c40e/20221780%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2018-10-07

unknown · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • PSB20.3%
  • PODE8.7%
  • AVANTE7.6%
  • PPS6.5%
  • PATRI5.8%
  • PSDB5.7%
  • PP5.1%
  • MDB4.3%
  • PSL4.1%
  • PTB3.8%
  • PT3.6%
  • PRB3.5%
  • PV2.9%
  • PRTB2.8%
  • PSC2.7%
  • PSD2.5%
  • PR1.9%
  • PC do B1.8%
  • REDE1.6%
  • DEM1.6%
  • SOLIDARIEDADE0.8%
  • PDT0.6%
  • PSOL0.4%
  • PROS0.4%
  • PTC0.3%
  • PMN0.2%
  • PRP0.1%
  • DC0.1%
  • PHS0.0%
Results for event-33c0221dd1be58f7f0eb5001
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PSBbrazil/S0d7ac4a666/2018417,26820.3%8Recorded
PODEbrazil/S0d7ac4a666/2018178,2798.7%3Recorded
AVANTEbrazil/S0d7ac4a666/2018156,2567.6%4Recorded
PPSbrazil/S0d7ac4a666/2018134,2856.5%2Recorded
PATRIbrazil/S0d7ac4a666/2018118,7605.8%2Recorded
PSDBbrazil/S0d7ac4a666/2018116,3155.7%3Recorded
PPbrazil/S0d7ac4a666/2018105,4965.1%2Recorded
MDBbrazil/S0d7ac4a666/201888,5294.3%1Recorded
PSLbrazil/S0d7ac4a666/201883,3074.1%2Recorded
PTBbrazil/S0d7ac4a666/201877,3813.8%2Recorded
PTbrazil/S0d7ac4a666/201874,4883.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PRBbrazil/S0d7ac4a666/201871,5373.5%1Recorded
PVbrazil/S0d7ac4a666/201859,6282.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PRTBbrazil/S0d7ac4a666/201857,8522.8%1Recorded
PSCbrazil/S0d7ac4a666/201854,5652.7%1Recorded
PSDbrazil/S0d7ac4a666/201850,4872.5%1Recorded
PRbrazil/S0d7ac4a666/201839,0731.9%1Recorded
PC do Bbrazil/S0d7ac4a666/201837,8211.8%1Recorded
REDEbrazil/S0d7ac4a666/201833,7321.6%1Recorded
DEMbrazil/S0d7ac4a666/201832,5631.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
SOLIDARIEDADEbrazil/S0d7ac4a666/201815,4860.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PDTbrazil/S0d7ac4a666/201813,3300.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PSOLbrazil/S0d7ac4a666/20189,2150.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PROSbrazil/S0d7ac4a666/20188,2480.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PTCbrazil/S0d7ac4a666/20186,3700.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PMNbrazil/S0d7ac4a666/20184,9080.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PRPbrazil/S0d7ac4a666/20183,0640.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
DCbrazil/S0d7ac4a666/20182,5410.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PHSbrazil/S0d7ac4a666/20186310%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2014-10-05

unknown · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • PSDB12.0%
  • PEN10.8%
  • PSB10.5%
  • PMDB10.0%
  • PSC6.5%
  • PSD5.9%
  • PT5.5%
  • PP5.3%
  • DEM4.9%
  • PSL4.2%
  • PC do B3.1%
  • PTN3.0%
  • PTB2.4%
  • PRB2.2%
  • PPS2.0%
  • PR1.9%
  • PT do B1.9%
  • PDT1.6%
  • PROS1.3%
  • PRTB1.1%
  • PSOL0.9%
  • PMN0.8%
  • PV0.5%
  • PSDC0.5%
  • PPL0.3%
  • PRP0.3%
  • PHS0.2%
  • PTC0.1%
  • SD0.1%
  • PCO0.1%
  • PSTU0.0%
Results for event-3d9719086bf2eb5b3768e012
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PSDBbrazil/S2c70216745/2014242,15112%4Recorded
PENbrazil/S2c70216745/2014216,42610.8%4Recorded
PSBbrazil/S2c70216745/2014210,56510.5%5Recorded
PMDBbrazil/S2c70216745/2014200,73910%4Recorded
PSCbrazil/S2c70216745/2014130,8406.5%2Recorded
PSDbrazil/S2c70216745/2014119,0925.9%2Recorded
PTbrazil/S2c70216745/2014111,5105.5%2Recorded
PPbrazil/S2c70216745/2014107,1715.3%2Recorded
DEMbrazil/S2c70216745/201497,7644.9%2Recorded
PSLbrazil/S2c70216745/201483,4304.2%2Recorded
PC do Bbrazil/S2c70216745/201462,5313.1%1Recorded
PTNbrazil/S2c70216745/201461,1353%1Recorded
PTBbrazil/S2c70216745/201447,4232.4%1Recorded
PRBbrazil/S2c70216745/201444,7002.2%1Recorded
PPSbrazil/S2c70216745/201439,4002%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PRbrazil/S2c70216745/201439,1311.9%1Recorded
PT do Bbrazil/S2c70216745/201438,9641.9%2Recorded
PDTbrazil/S2c70216745/201432,1781.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PROSbrazil/S2c70216745/201425,8071.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PRTBbrazil/S2c70216745/201422,1241.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PSOLbrazil/S2c70216745/201417,0820.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PMNbrazil/S2c70216745/201416,8470.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PVbrazil/S2c70216745/201410,4410.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PSDCbrazil/S2c70216745/20149,5720.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PPLbrazil/S2c70216745/20146,1160.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PRPbrazil/S2c70216745/20145,5940.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PHSbrazil/S2c70216745/20143,3000.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PTCbrazil/S2c70216745/20142,3790.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
SDbrazil/S2c70216745/20142,3510.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PCObrazil/S2c70216745/20141,9770.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PSTUbrazil/S2c70216745/20148260%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

69.160–100 historical closeness

Actual-event and/or comparability review incomplete

Comparison status: Provisional imported-series comparison; actual-event review open

Method ci.weighted-gap.v1. Inputs: latest_gap=4.240192593391614, oldest_gap=1.2801271518327848, previous_gap=11.649958687052594

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

20.4percentage points

Grouped Pedersen lower bound (percentage points). Nine continuing national parties, allowing PMDB/MDB and PR/PL labels; merged, new and remaining parties all grouped in Other. Lower bound; changes inside Other are invisible. An interval is withheld if either election has no list mapped to an explicit named group. This is aggregate share change, not individual voter switching. Event review: Actual-event and/or comparability review incomplete

Comparison status: Latest interval

Method pedersen.grouped.v1. Inputs: groups=["PT","PSDB","MDB","PP","PSB","PDT","PSD","PSOL","PL","Other"], interval=Latest interval, vectors=[[5.8145749265762205,9.365794169155729,4.814567349072848,10.420850079987234,14.778538549211204,0.3310923238553624,4.58550387945886,0.3914894830939214,8.525761059923342,40.97182817966528],[3.6310546622697015,5.669988763853243,4.315509051069627,5.142596695451676,20.340496681558825,0.6497953851366008,2.4610817411396524,0.4492021360865549,1.9046853025838262,55.435589580850284],null]

pedersen volatility

Withheld volatility

Unknownpercentage points

Grouped Pedersen lower bound (percentage points). Nine continuing national parties, allowing PMDB/MDB and PR/PL labels; merged, new and remaining parties all grouped in Other. Lower bound; changes inside Other are invisible. An interval is withheld if either election has no list mapped to an explicit named group. This is aggregate share change, not individual voter switching. Event review: Actual-event and/or comparability review incomplete

Comparison status: Previous interval · Comparable grouped vectors unavailable for this interval

Method pedersen.grouped.v1. Inputs: groups=["PT","PSDB","MDB","PP","PSB","PDT","PSD","PSOL","PL","Other"], interval=Previous interval, vectors=[[5.8145749265762205,9.365794169155729,4.814567349072848,10.420850079987234,14.778538549211204,0.3310923238553624,4.58550387945886,0.3914894830939214,8.525761059923342,40.97182817966528],[3.6310546622697015,5.669988763853243,4.315509051069627,5.142596695451676,20.340496681558825,0.6497953851366008,2.4610817411396524,0.4492021360865549,1.9046853025838262,55.435589580850284],null]

pedersen volatility

Withheld volatility

Unknownpercentage points

Grouped Pedersen lower bound (percentage points). Nine continuing national parties, allowing PMDB/MDB and PR/PL labels; merged, new and remaining parties all grouped in Other. Lower bound; changes inside Other are invisible. An interval is withheld if either election has no list mapped to an explicit named group. This is aggregate share change, not individual voter switching. Event review: Actual-event and/or comparability review incomplete

Comparison status: Both intervals mean · Comparable grouped vectors unavailable for this interval

Method pedersen.grouped.v1. Inputs: groups=["PT","PSDB","MDB","PP","PSB","PDT","PSD","PSOL","PL","Other"], interval=Both intervals mean, vectors=[[5.8145749265762205,9.365794169155729,4.814567349072848,10.420850079987234,14.778538549211204,0.3310923238553624,4.58550387945886,0.3914894830939214,8.525761059923342,40.97182817966528],[3.6310546622697015,5.669988763853243,4.315509051069627,5.142596695451676,20.340496681558825,0.6497953851366008,2.4610817411396524,0.4492021360865549,1.9046853025838262,55.435589580850284],null]

Source-reported control: Unverified. Current tenure requires separate dated evidence.

5. Officeholder evidence

Dated roster observations are not automatically current tenure. The source current-office flag means this office is tracked now, not that the last winner still holds it.

No officeholder observation supplied.

6. Polling context

No local poll supplied.

National context is listed on the polling page. It is not a local forecast.

7. Unresolved issues and sources

First round 4 October 2026; governor runoff 25 October where required. TSE ordinary-election returns aggregated once from state files, excluding the duplicate national BR file. Party votes are not governing coalition control. Legislative votes include nominal plus valid list votes. Judicial retotalizations and changed party labels require review. The 2014 file uses legacy nominal/list fields; later files separately identify valid, converted and subjudice votes. This is an explicit definition-comparability limitation. Roraima legal certification, Rio and other specific replacement/current-control cases remain open. Eight municipal replacement tickets are tracked; ordinary municipal renewals are outside the window. Public-vote baselines for Alagoas and Amazonas are supplied separately from their indirect selections. Roraima’s primary 2010 cycle is recovered; the June 2026 proclamation is still unresolved. Rio’s signed 2026 legislative retotalization verifies the imported 2022 votes and seats, with 70 named elected deputies added; later membership and governing-coalition control still need dated verification.

    Sources

    Cite this record

    Center for Digital Democracy. “Paraíba — State legislative assembly.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/BR-PB-A. Sources: brazil--url-580aebec6bb5c27e76b98bb4, brazil--url-ef95aa16df1e62f699a27949, brazil--url-653ade48bf64a7388c4b910b, brazil--S5cd0a4c40e, brazil--S0d7ac4a666, brazil--S2c70216745.