Tarcísio is reelected governor of São Paulo
With over 90% of the voting stations counted, the candidate obtained 62.8% of the votes
Tarcísio de Freitas was re-elected governor of São Paulo on Sunday (4), in the first round of the 2026 elections. The Republican candidate obtained 62.8% of the valid votes, the equivalent of 13,057,319 votes, according to data from the Superior Electoral Court (TSE).
By 7:42 p.m., 90.02% of the ballot boxes had been totaled in the state.
Tarcísio was ahead of Fernando Haddad (PT), who received 36.22% of the vote.
Election to governor is defined in the first round when a nomination gets more than half of the valid votes.
Tarcísio is a career public servant, graduated from the Military Academy of Black Needles (AMAN) and graduated in engineering at the Military Institute of Engineering. He was part of the United Nations (UN) peacekeeping mission in Haiti. He worked in the areas of infrastructure and investment, was president of the National Department of Transportation Infrastructure (DNIT) and minister of 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).
