Eduardo Riedel is elected governor of MS in the first round

Eduardo Riedel was elected governor of Mato Grosso of the South on Sunday (4), in the first round of the 2026 elections. The PP candidate obtained 67.36% of the valid votes, the equivalent of 763,725 votes, according to data from the Superior Electoral Court (TSE).

By 6:33 p.m., 83% of the ballot boxes had been totaled in the state.

Riedel was ahead of Fábio Trad (PT), who received 23% of the vote. Then there are João Henrique Catan (Novo), with 7.47%; Delcidio Amaral (PRD), with 1.09%; Economist Renato Gomes (DC), with 0.44%; Lucien Rezende (PSOL), with 0.34%; Daniel Lemes (PCO), with 0.16%; and Jeferson Bezerra (Agir), with 0.07%.

Election to governor is defined in the first round when a nomination gets more than half of the valid votes. With the result, there will be no second round for the government of Mato Grosso of the South.

The current governor of Mato Grosso of the South, Eduardo Riedel began his public life in 2015, when he assumed the Secretary of State for Government and Strategic Management (Segov) in the government of Mato Grosso of the South. He was president of the Deliberative Council of Sebrae and director of the Confederation of Agriculture and Livestock of Brazil (CNA), as well as having been state secretary of Government and Infrastructure.

The vote for governor took place simultaneously with the election for president, senator and federal, state or district deputies (in the case of the Federal District).