2016 Rio de Janeiro mayoral election

2016 Rio de Janeiro mayoral election
2 October 2016 (2016-10-02) (first round)
30 October 2016 (2016-10-30) (second round)
Opinion polls
Turnout75.72% (first round)
73.15% (second round)
 
Candidate Marcelo Crivella Marcelo Freixo
Party PRB PSOL
Alliance For a More Human Rio Change is Possible
popular vote 1,700,030 1,163,662
Percentage 59.36% 40.64%
Mayor before election

Eduardo Paes
PMDB

 Elected mayor

Marcelo Crivella
PRB

The 2016 Rio de Janeiro municipal election took place on 2 October and 30 October 2016 to elect a Mayor, a Vice Mayor and 51 City Councillors for the administration of the city. The incumbent Mayor, Eduardo Paes of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB), was term-limited and couldn't run for re-election. The election took place against a backdrop of mass protests and the impeachment of president Dilma Rousseff of the Workers' Party (PT) earlier that year.

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