2022 Brazilian gubernatorial elections

In Acre, incumbent Governor Gladson Cameli was reelected in the first round with 56.75% of the vote.

In 2018, Glason Cameli, a former Senator for Acre and civil engineer affiliated with the Progressistas, was elected governor with 53.71% of the vote against Workers' Party candidate Marcus Alexandre and Social Liberal Party candidate Coronel Ulysses in the first round. Cameli, a supporter of President Jair Bolsonaro, broke the rule of the PT in Acre after 20 years.

He was elected along with his Vice-Governor Wherles Fernandes da Rocha, also known as Major Rocha, a member of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party. Rocha during his tenure switched to the Social Liberal Party, the Brazil Union, and then the Brazilian Democratic Movement, a party which opposed Cameli in the 2022 election.

Cameli's first term saw a corruption investigation called Operation Ptolemy in 2021, in which the Federal Police investigated criminal organizations in Acre. Though Cameli has not been specifically targeted, the police seized some of Cameli's possestions, banned his international travel, and seized his passport. The police are also investigating his father Eladio Cameli and his brother Gledson Cameli. Overall the Federal Police found that at least 268.6 million reals in public funds had been stolen by the criminal organizations in fraudelant public contracts, but have not implicated Cameli.[1]

Given no charge in the investigation prohibited his candidacy by the Superior Electoral Court or by the Ficha Limpa, which bans politicians convicted by a court, impeached, or resigned to avoid impeachment of running for eight years, Cameli was able to run for reelection.[2]

The election saw all three incumbent senators for Acre run, either for governor or vice governor. The candidates were as follows:

• Gladson Cameli (PP), the incumbent governor, ran for reelection along with Maliza Gomes (PP) as vice governor. Gomes served as Cameli's alternte in the 2014 elections where he was elected senator and then as senator once Cameli was elected governor from 2019-2022. She was replaced by Bispo José (PL). Cameli's coalition "Advance to do more" was made up of the PP, PDT, Always Forward (PSDB, CID), PODE, SD, PATRI, PMN, DC, and PMB.[2]
• Jorge Viana (PT), a forestry engineer, who served as Mayor of Rio Branco from 1993 to 1997, Governor of Acre from 1999 to 2007, and Senator for Acre from 2011 to 2019, ran along with Marcus Alexandre (PT) for vice governor, the previous challenger to Cameli. Viana's coalition was made up of the Brazil of Hope Federation (PT, PV, and PCdoB).
• Mara Rocha (MDB), a Federal Deputy and sister of Cameli's first vice governor Major Rocha, ran along with Fernando Alvares Zamora (PRTB), an agricultural producer for vice governor. Her coalition "Hope for a Better Acre Starts Now!" was composed of the MDB, PRTB, REP, and PL.
• Sérgio de Oliveira Cunha (PSD) also known as Petecão, a Senator for Acre first elected in 2010, who formerly served as President of the Legislative Assembly of Acre and as Federal Deputy, ran along with Tota Filho (PSD), an attorney from Cruzeiro do Sul. Petecão's coalition "With the Strength of the People" was composed of the PSD, AVANTE, PROS, and PTB.
• Márcio Bittar (UNIÃO), a former cattle rancher and senator first elected in 2018, who formerly served as a Federal Deputy, ran along with Dr. Georgia Micheletti (UNIÃO) for vice governor. Bittar's coalition was only made up of the Brazil Union, a party founded in 2021 as a union between the Democrats and Social Liberal Party, though Bittar was elected senator as a member of the MDB.
• Professor Nilson (PSOL), a college professor, ran along with Jane Rosas (PSOL), a business administrator. The coalition was made up of the PSOL REDE Federation of the Socialism and Liberty Party and the Sustainibility Network.
• David Hall (AGIR), a high school teacher, ran along with Jorgiene Carneiro (AGIR). Their party Act or Agir in Portuguese ran an isolated ticket. The party was previously the Christian Labor Party and the National Reconstruction Party of the victorious Fernando Collor de Melo in 1989 elections.

In Amazonas, incumbent governor Wilson Lima was re-elected in the second round against former governor Eduardo Braga with 56.65% to Braga's 43.35%

In 2018, Wilson Lima, a reporter and TV presenter most known for the program Alô Amazonas, was elected in the second round against incumbent governor Amazonino Mendes 58.50% to 41.50%. Lima, a supporter of Jair Bolsonaro, ran as a member of the Social Christian Party, a minor evangelical conservative movement. Mendes had been elected in 2017 in the supplementary elections after the impeachment of José Melo de Oliveira, who was elected in 2014.

Lima's Lt. Governor in 2018 was Carlos Almeida, a public defender affiliated with the right wing nationalist Brazilian Labor Renewal Party (PRTB). Almeida, having joined the Brazilian Labor Party (PTB), broke with Lima in 2020 over his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic in Amazonas, believing that Lima's enforcement of the Bolsonaro administration's Herd immunity policy was wrong.[3] Almeida subsequently joined the Brazilian Social Democracy Party, which opposed Lima in the 2022 election.[4]

Lima joined the Brazil Union (UNIÃO), a merger of the former christian democratic Democrats (DEM) and conservative liberal Social Liberal Party (PSL), for the election.[5]

The election saw two former governors run, along with the incumbent. The candidates were as follows:

• Wilson Lima (UNIÃO), the incumbent governor, ran for reelection along with Tadeu de Souza (AVANTE) as vice governor. Souza, a lawyer and close ally of the Manaus Mayor David Almeida, served as Lima's chief of staff from 2021 to 2022, after serving in the bureaucracy o fManaus. Lima was endorsed by Jair Bolsonaro in the second round, but Lima outpreformed Bolsonaro by 6 points.[6] Lima's coalition "Here is Work" was made up of the UNIÃO, AVANTE, PL, PTB, PATRI, PMN, PRTB, PSC, REP and PP.[7]
• Eduardo Braga (MDB), an entrepeneur and long time politican, who served as Mayor of Manaus from 1994 to 1997, Governor of Amazonas from 2003 to 2010, Senator for Amazonas from 2011 to present, and Minister of Mines and Energy in the Rousseff administration, ran along with Anne Moura (PT) for vice governor, the National Secretary for Women of the Worker's Party. He was endorsed by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.[6] Braga's coalition was made up of the MDB, Brazil of Hope Federation (PT, PV, and PCdoB), and PSD.[8]
  

  Amazonino Mendes, a former governor and mayor of Manaus, came third in the election. He died on 12 Feburary 2023 at 83.[9]
• Amazonino Mendes (CID), the 41st, 44th, and 48th Governor of Amazonas, who also served as a Senator from 1991 to 1993 and the 64th, 67th, and 71st Mayor of Manaus, ran along with Beto Michiles (PSDB), a former Federal Deputy for vice governor. Mendes ran without a coaltion except for the party federation Always Forward made up of his party Cidadania and the Brazilian Social Democracy Party.[10]
• Ricardo Nicolau (SD), a hospital administrator and five time State Deputy in Amazonas, who formerly served as President of the Legislative Assembly of Amazonas and as City Councillor of Manaus, ran along with Cristiane Balieiro (PSB), a teacher.[11] Nicolau's campaign focused on his health background and building more hospitals.[12] Nicolau's coalition "We, the People" was composed of Solidarity and the Brazilian Socialist Party.[13]
• Carol Braz (PDT), a lawyer, former judge, and Secretary of State for Justice, Human Rights, and Citizenship, who formerly served as president of the PSC in Manaus before leaving the party, ran along with Claudio Machado (PDT), an engineer, for vice governor. Braz had no coalition.[14]
• Dr Israel Tuyuka (PSOL), an indigenous doctor and teacher from the Tuyuca ethnic group near Colombia, ran along with Thomaz Barbosa (PSOL), a radio announcer.[15] Tuyuka ran without a coaltion except for the PSOL REDE Federation of the Socialism and Liberty Party and the Sustainibility Network.[16]
• Henrique Oliveira (PODE), a radio presenter who previously served as the vice governor of Amazonino Mendes from 2017 to 2019 and a Federal Deputy from 2011 to 2015, ran alongside Edward Malta (PROS), a businessman and state president of PROS. Oliveira's coalition "Amazonas Wants More" was made up of PODE and PROS.[17]
• Nair Blair (AGIR), a businesswoman, ran along with Rita Nobre (AGIR), a dental surgeon. Their party Act or Agir in Portuguese ran an isolated ticket. Blair previously was elected but not charged in the investigation of the electoral crimes of former governor José Melo de Oliveira. The party was previously the Christian Labor Party and the National Reconstruction Party of the victorious Fernando Collor de Melo in 1989 elections.[18]

In Ceará, Elmano de Freitas, a State Deputy from the Workers' Party, with 54.02% defeated Capitão Wagner, a Federal Deputy from the Brazil Union, who recieved 31.72%, and Roberto Cláudio, former Mayor of Fortaleza from the Democratic Labor Party, who recieved 14.14%, in the first round. De Freitas suceeded Izolda Cela, the Lt. Govenor of Camilo Santana, who had resigned to run for Senate. Santana was elected suceeding Tasso Jereissati.

2022 Paraíba gubernatorial election

October 2, 2022 (2022-10-02)

Candidate João Azevêdo Pedro Cunha Lima Party PSB PSDB Alliance Together for Paraíba Courage to Change Running mate Lucas Ribeiro Domiciano Cabral Popular vote 1,221,904 1,104,963 Percentage 52.51% 47.49%

Most voted candidate by municipality (223):   João Azevêdo (170)   Pedro Cunha Lima (53)

In Paraíba, incumbent governor João Azevêdo was elected in the second round against Federal Deputy Pedro Cunha Lima with 52.51% to Lima's 47.49%.[19]

In the 2018 gubernatorial election, Azevêdo was elected in the first round with 58.18% of all valid votes. He defeated Lucélio Cartaxo (PV), the twin brother of the Mayor of the state capitol João Pessoa Luciano Cartaxo, who recieved 23.41%, and Zé Maranhão (MDB), a former governor of the state, who recieved 17.44%.[20]

Azevêdo suceeded Ricardo Coutinho, also of the Brazilian Socialist Party. Azevêdo was elected with Lt. Governor Lígia Feliciano of the Democratic Labor Party, who also served as Coutinho's Lt. Governor for his second term.[21]

In Pernambuco, Raquel Lyra, former mayor Caruaru, defeated Marília Arraes