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Piauí — Governor

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Piauí — Governor
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Piauí — Governor

54 state ballots plus eight specifically called municipal mayor/vice tickets. Municipal dates are 25 October or 6 December 2026. State and local actual-event sequences, annulments, source comparability and current control retain office-specific review gaps. Roraima 2010 is recovered from official section files; the June 2026 supplementary proclamation remains unresolved. Rio’s 2022 votes and seats are verified against the signed March 2026 recount, with 70 named elected deputies.

Election expectation2026-10-04
Imported event records3
Usable vote comparison cycles3 of 3
Seat comparison cycles0 of 3

Historical competition

Competitiveness index for a verified actual-event sequence withheld. Actual-event and/or comparability review incomplete.

Provisional imported-series CI: 0.0/100. This uses the three displayed comparison cycles and retains the open event/boundary audit. It does not confirm the latest three actual completed elections.

Current government and control: Rafael Fonteles (Partido dos Trabalhadores); Secondary current-directory snapshot; primary incumbent/party verification pending; retrieved 12 Sep 2026. Current officeholder source. Secondary current-directory snapshot; primary incumbent/party verification pending Local government-risk forecast: unassessed.

National polling context: National presidential poll; context for subnational races — Datafolha; fieldwork 2026-09-01 to 2026-09-02. Sample 2,002; reported margin of error ±2.00 percentage points. Competitive national contest within the reported margin of error. This does not establish which state or municipal incumbents will lose. Poll report

National polling context: National presidential approval; context for subnational races — AtlasIntel / Bloomberg; fieldwork 2026-07-22 to 2026-07-27. Sample 5,021; reported margin of error ±1.00 percentage points. Earlier comparison wave; named officeholder and question wording retained. Poll report

National polling context: National presidential approval; context for subnational races — AtlasIntel / Bloomberg; fieldwork 2026-08-25 to 2026-08-30. Sample 5,014; reported margin of error ±1.00 percentage points. Rounded approval fell from 48% to 45%, and disapproval rose from 51% to 53%. This supplies a national headwind indicator for Lula-aligned candidates, but Brazilian state coalitions differ and individual state polling takes precedence. Overview values are rounded to whole percentage points. Poll report

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.

Registry and evidence links: Source 1, Source 2, Source 3

Electoral event evidence

Separate source records can belong to the same election cycle. Recounts, runoffs and void returns do not create additional cycles.

2022-10-02 · Decisive governor round 1

Coverage: Full party vote vector; governor names / assembly seats joined by party number to TSE candidacy status

Basis: Valid nominal votes

Party or listCandidateVotes or marksVote shareSeats
PTRAFAEL FONTELES1,115,13957.62%—
UNIÃOSILVIO MENDES811,80641.95%—
PSOLMADALENA NUNES4,7590.25%—
PSTUGERALDO CARVALHO1,4250.07%—
PMNRAVENNA CASTRO1,1670.06%—
PATRIOTAGUSTAVO HENRIQUE1,0270.05%—

Result source

2018-10-07 · Decisive governor round 1

Coverage: Full party vote vector; governor names / assembly seats joined by party number to TSE candidacy status

Basis: Valid nominal votes

Party or listCandidateVotes or marksVote shareSeats
PTWELLINGTON DIAS966,46955.65%—
SOLIDARIEDADEDR. PESSOA (DR. ZEZIM)355,79220.48%—
PSDBLUCIANO300,54917.30%—
PSLFÁBIO SÉRVIO63,4313.65%—
PODEELMANO O VEIN TRABALHADOR22,1761.28%—
PSOLPROFESSORA SUELI12,2710.71%—
PSCVALTER ALENCAR11,0150.63%—
PSTULUCIANE SANTOS2,9600.17%—
DCROMUALDO SENO1,4050.08%—
PCOLOURDES MELO7770.04%—

Result source

2014-10-05 · Decisive governor round 1

Coverage: Full party vote vector; governor names / assembly seats joined by party number to TSE candidacy status

Basis: Reported nominal + list counts (legacy 2014 fields)

Party or listCandidateVotes or marksVote shareSeats
PTWELLINGTON DIAS1,053,34263.08%—
PMDBZÉ FILHO555,20133.25%—
PSCMÃO SANTA25,8771.55%—
PSOLMAKLANDEL22,4801.35%—
PSTUDANIEL SOLON6,4520.39%—
PPLNETO SAMBAIBA4,2170.25%—
PCOLOURDES MELO2,1800.13%—

Result source

Snapshot 13 September 2026. Fixed election window 8 September 2026 to 8 March 2028. Record BR-PI-G.