- Source: 2024 Salvador mayoral election
The 2024 Salvador municipal election took place in the city of Salvador, Brazil on 6 October 2024. Voters will elect a mayor, vice mayor, and 43 councillors. The incumbent mayor, Bruno Reis, of the Brazil Union (UNIÃO), is able to run for a second term.
If the most voted candidate on the first round doesn't achieve more than 50% of the votes, a second round will happen on 27 October 2024. The mayor's term will begin on 1 January 2025 and end on 31 December 2028.
Background
= 2020 election
=The last mayoral election in Rio de Janeiro, held in 2020, resulted in a largest victory of Bruno Reis (DEM) in the first round. Reis obtained 779.408 votes or 64.20% of the valid votes against his main opponent. He had been vice mayor of the municipality under popular incumbent ACM Neto. His election was viewed as a continued endorsement of ACM Neto's mayorship.
Reis later supported ACM Neto's unsuccessful bid for governor in 2022.
Electoral calendar
Candidates
= Presumptive candidates
== Potential candidates
=United Socialist Workers' Party (PSTU)
Victor Marinho – Researcher at the Laboratory of Marxist Studies and Research (LEMARX — FACED/UFBA).
= Withdrawn candidates
=Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB)
Zé Trindade – President of the Bahia State Urban Development Company (Conder) (2021–present) and councillor of Salvador (2013–2020). He left the race as a potential candidate on 1 September 2023 due to personal and health reasons.
Lídice da Mata – Member of the Chamber of Deputies from Bahia (1987–1991; 2007–2011; 2019–present); Senator for Bahia (2011–2019); Member of the Legislative Assembly of Bahia (1999–2007); Mayor of Salvador (1993–1997) and councillor of Salvador (1983–1987). On 1 March 2024, she announced that running for mayor in the 2024 local elections of Brazil wasn't in her plans and she was focused on other tasks as a politician. She was announced as the coordinator of Geraldo Júnior's campaign on the end of April 2024.
New Party (NOVO)
Luciana Buck – University professor and company administrator. Her own party decided to support Reis' reelection bid and she decided to run for a seat at the Municipal Chamber of Salvador.
Communist Party of Brazil (PCdoB)
Olívia Santana – Member of the Legislative Assembly of Bahia (2019–present); Secretary of Labor, Employment, Income and Sports of Bahia (2017–2018); Secretary of Policies for Women of Bahia (2015–2017) and Councillor of Salvador (2005–2012). The Brazil of Hope Federation, which the Communist Party of Brazil is a part of, decided to support Junior's candidacy for mayor and nominated Fabya Reis as his running mate.
Opinion polls
= First round
=2024
2023
= Second round
=These are the hypothetical scenarios of a second round.
Bruno Reis and Geraldo Júnior
Hypothetical scenario with João Roma
= Rejection of candidates
=In some opinion polls, the interviewee can choose more than one alternative (the so-called "multiple rejection"), therefore, the sum of the percentages of all candidates can exceed 100% of the votes in some scenarios
Outgoing Municipal Chamber
The result of the last municipal election and the current situation in the Municipal Chamber is given below:
Results
= Mayor
== Municipal Chamber
=Notes
References
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- 2024 Salvador mayoral election
- 2024 Salvadoran general election
- List of elections in 2024
- 2024 in Brazil
- Nayib Bukele
- 2024 São Paulo mayoral election
- 2024 Guamanian local elections
- 2024 Rio de Janeiro mayoral election
- 2024 local electoral calendar
- President of El Salvador