The 2022 Ceará state election took place in the state of

Ceará Ceará (, pronounced locally as or ) is one of the 26 states of Brazil, located in the northeastern part of the country, on the Atlantic coast. It is the eighth-largest Brazilian State by population and the 17th by area. It is also one of the ...

, Brazil on 2 October 2022. Voters elected the

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and

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of the

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, a

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, Vice Governor of the State and a

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of the Republic with two alternates, in addition to 22 Federal Deputies and 46

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. Those elected will take office on January 1 (President, Governor and their respective vices) or February 1 (senator and deputies) of 2023 for terms on office lasting for four years (except in the case of the senator, who'll have a term on office for eight years). The incumbent governor,

Izolda Cela Maria Izolda Cela de Arruda Coelho (born Sobral, Ceará, 9 May 1960) is a Brazilian professor, psychologist, politician and the first female governor in the history of the Brazilian state of Ceará. Affiliated to the Democratic Labour Party (P ...

, who became governor after the resignation of

Camilo Santana Camilo Sobreira de Santana (born 3 June 1968) is a Brazilian agricultural engineer and politician, affiliated to the Workers' Party (PT). He has a bachelor's degree in agricultural engineering from the Federal University of Ceará and a master ...

( PT) is affiliated to the Democratic Labour Party (PDT). She was eligible for a second term, but the party's nominee was Roberto Cláudio, after an internal dispute where the former mayor of

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won. For the election to the

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, the seat occupied by

Tasso Jereissati Tasso Ribeiro Jereissati (born 15 December 1948) is federal senator of Brazil. He is a former governor of Ceará Ceará (, pronounced locally as or ) is one of the 26 states of Brazil, located in the northeastern part of the country, on the ...

, elected in 2014 by the

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(PSDB), was at dispute. However, the senator said he would not run for reelection.

Electoral calendar

Gubernatorial candidates

The party conventions began on July 20th and will continue until August 5th. The following political parties have already confirmed their candidacies. Political parties have until August 15, 2022 to formally register their candidates.

Confirmed candidacies

Withdrawn candidacies

* Evandro Leitão ( PDT) - State deputy of Ceará (since 2015) and President of the

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(2021–2022). He had previously declared that he was working with the intention of his own re-election as a state deputy. In April, he signaled support for the candidacy of the governor of Ceará, Izolda Cela. * Mauro Benevides Filho ( PDT) -

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from Ceará and state deputy of Ceará (1991–2015). He announced the withdrawal of his candidacy in the name of an internal unity in the party. File:Mauro Benevides Filho (cropped).png,

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Mauro Benevides Filho ( PDT)
(1991–2015)

Senatorial candidates

Political parties have until August 15, 2022 to formally register their candidates.

Confirmed candidacies

Rejected candidacies

* Carlos Silva: His candidacy was rejected because he did not report to the

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about previous electoral expenses in his campaign for the prefecture of the

municipality of

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in 2020. However, an appeal was filed against the decision and the candidate remains, until the moment, eligible to run in the election.

Withdrawn candidacies

* Amarílio Macedo: Initially, the directory in Ceará of the

Always Forward Always Forward ( it, Sempre Avanti) was a liberal and centrist faction within the Democratic Party (PD), a political party in Italy. Its leaders were Roberto Giachetti and Anna Ascani, close advisors of Matteo Renzi, party's former national secr ...

federation (composed by the

and

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), under the command of Chiquinho Feitosa, one of the alternate senators of

, held a convention that defined the neutrality of the federation in the gubernatorial and senatorial elections. However, the federation's national directory, influenced by Jereissati, who obtained control of the state directory, intervened in the decision and launched the senate candidacy of the businessman Amarílio Macêdo in the ''From the People, By the People and For the People'' coalition, an alliance that also supported Roberto Cláudio's candidacy for the state government, with Dr. Cabeto and Regis as the nominees for alternate senators. But later, the

Superior Electoral Court The Superior Electoral Court ( pt-BR, Tribunal Superior Eleitoral, TSE) is the highest body of the Brazilian Electoral Justice, which also comprises one Regional Electoral Court ( pt-BR, Tribunal Regional Eleitoral, TRE) in each of the 26 states ...

of Brazil suspended the resolution that approved Macêdo's name in the ticket, reinstating the previous decision and returning the command of the directory to Feitosa, implying the exclusion of the Always Forward federation from the coalition. * Nurse Ana Paula: She had her candidacy for the Senate announced by the Democratic Labour Party to replace the candidacy of Amarílio Macêdo if he could not represent the coalition, but she chose to withdraw to run for the federal deputy, and Érika Amorim was chosen as a candidate by Roberto Cláudio's campaign. * Paulo Anacé: He had his candidacy for the Senate announced, but resigned due to the decision of the PSOL REDE Federation to support Camilo Santana's candidacy. With that, he decided to run in the dispute for the position of federal deputy for Ceará.

Legislative Assembly

The result of the last state election and the current situation in the

is given below:

Opinion polls

Governor

First round

The first round is scheduled to take place on 2 October 2022. 2022 2021

Senator

2022 2021

Notes

References

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