2012 São Paulo mayoral election explained

Election Name:

2012 São Paulo municipal election

Country:

Brazil

Flag Image:

Bandeira da cidade de São Paulo.svg

Type:

presidential

Vote Type:

Popular

Ongoing:

Previous Year:

2008

Previous Election:

2008 São Paulo mayoral election

Next Election:

2016 São Paulo mayoral election

Next Year:

2016

Election Date:

(first round)
(second round)

Opinion Polls:

Opinion polls

Turnout:

81.52% (first round)^[1]
80.01% (second round)^[2]

Module:

Embed:

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Election Name:

Mayoral election

Type:

presidential

Ongoing:

Candidate1:

Fernando Haddad

Party1:

Workers' Party (Brazil)

Running Mate1:

Nádia Campeão

Popular Vote1:

3,387,720

Percentage1:

55.57%

Candidate2:

José Serra

Party2:

Brazilian Social Democratic Party

Running Mate2:

Alexandre Schneider

Popular Vote2:

2,708,768

Percentage2:

44.43%

Module:

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Election Name:	Parliamentary election
Ongoing:	no
Heading1:	Municipal Chamber
Leader1:	Floriano Pesaro
Party1:	Brazilian Social Democracy Party
Percentage1:	18.10%
Last Election1:	11
Seats1:	9
Leader2:	Abou Anni
Party2:	Green Party (Brazil)
Percentage2:	6.85%
Last Election2:	3
Seats2:	4
Leader3:	None
Party3:	Brazilian Democratic Movement Party
Percentage3:	5.29%
Last Election3:	2
Seats3:	4
Leader4:	Atílio Francisco
Party4:	Brazilian Republican Party
Percentage4:	5.19%
Last Election4:	1
Seats4:	2
Leader5:	Adilson Amadeu
Party5:	Brazilian Labour Party (current)
Percentage5:	5.04%
Last Election5:	3
Seats5:	4
Leader6:	Aurélio Miguel
Party6:	Party of the Republic
Percentage6:	4.63%
Last Election6:	5
Seats6:	3
Leader7:	Milton Leite
Party7:	Democrats (Brazil)
Percentage7:	3.91%
Last Election7:	8
Seats7:	2
Leader8:	Eliseu Gabriel
Party8:	Brazilian Socialist Party
Percentage8:	3.77%
Last Election8:	2
Seats8:	3
Leader9:	Jamil Murad
Party9:	Communist Party of Brazil
Percentage9:	2.89%
Last Election9:	2
Seats9:	1
Leader10:	None
Party10:	Socialism and Liberty Party
Percentage10:	2.06%
Last Election10:	0
Seats10:	1
Leader11:	Wadih Mutran
Party11:	Progressistas
Percentage11:	1.95%
Last Election11:	2
Seats11:	1
Leader12:	Claudio Prado
Party12:	Democratic Labour Party (Brazil)
Percentage12:	1.71%
Last Election12:	1
Seats12:	0

Mayor

Before Election:

Gilberto Kassab

Before Party:

Social Democratic Party (Brazil, 2011)

After Election:

Fernando Haddad

After Party:

Workers' Party (Brazil)

The 2012 São Paulo municipal election took place in the city of São Paulo, with the first round taking place on 7 October 2012 and the second round taking place on 28 October 2012. Voters voted to elect the Mayor, the Vice Mayor and 55 city councillors for the administration of the city. The result was a 2nd round victory for Fernando Haddad of the Workers' Party (PT), winning 3,387,720 votes and a share of 55.57% of the popular vote, defeating José Serra of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB), who took 2,708,768 votes and a share of 44.43% of the popular vote.

Candidates

Candidates in runoff

		Party/coalition	Mayoral candidate		Political office(s)	Vice-Mayoral candidate
	13	"To Change and Renovate São Paulo" PT, PCdoB, PP, PSB		Fernando Haddad (PT)	Minister of Education 2005–12	Nádia Campeão (PCdoB)
	45	"Forward São Paulo" PSDB, PSD, DEM, PV, PR		José Serra (PSDB)	Governor of São Paulo 2007–10; Mayor of São Paulo 2005–06; Minister of Health 1995–2002; Ministry of Planning and Budget 1995–96	Alexandre Schneider (PSD)

Candidates failing to make runoff

	Party/coalition		Political office(s)	Vice-Mayoral candidate
10	"For a New São Paulo" PRB, PTB, PTN, PHS, PRP, PTdoB	Celso Russomanno (PRB)	Federal Deputy from São Paulo 1995–2011	Luiz Flavio D'Urso (PTB)
12		Paulo Pereira da Silva (PDT)	Federal Deputy from São Paulo since 2007	Joaquim Gava (PDT)
15	"São Paulo in First Place" PMDB, PSC, PP, PSL	Gabriel Chalita (PMDB)	Federal Deputy from São Paulo since 2011; City Councillor of São Paulo 2009–11; State Secretary of Education of São Paulo 2002–06; City Councillor of Cachoeira Paulista 1989–93	Marianne Pinotti (PMDB)
16		Ana Luiza (PSTU)	Federal public employee	Wilson Ribeiro (PSTU)
23	"A Green Light for São Paulo" PPS, PMN	Soninha Francine (PPS)	Sub-Mayor of Lapa 2009–10; City Councillor of São Paulo 2005–09	Lucas Albano (PMN)
27		José Maria Eymael (PSDC)	PSDC National President since 1997; Federal Deputy from São Paulo 1986–95	Lindberg de Morais (PSDC)
28		Levy Fidelix (PRTB)	PRTB National President since 1994	Luiz Duarte (PRTB)
29		Anaí Caproni (PCO)	Co-founder of the Workers' Cause Party	Rafael Dantas (PCO)
50	"Left-Wing Front" PSOL, PCB	Carlos Giannazi (PSOL)	State Deputy of São Paulo since 2007; City Councillor of São Paulo 2001–07	Edmilson Costa (PCB)
54		Miguel Manso (PPL)	Engineer and politician	Marielza Milani (PPL)

Debates

First round

Date	Host	Moderator	width=30	José Serra (PSDB)	width=30	Fernando Haddad (PT)	width=30	Celso Russomanno (PRB)	width=30	Gabriel Chalita (PMDB)	width=30	Soninha Francine (PPS)	width=30	Carlos Giannazi (PSOL)	width=30	Paulo Pereira (PDT)	width=30	Levy Fidelix (PRTB)	width=30	Ana Luiza (PSTU)	width=30	Miguel Manso (PPL)	width=30	Eymael (PSDC)	width=30	Anaí Caproni (PCO)
2 August 2012	TV Bandeirantes	Fábio Pannunzio
3 September 2012	RedeTV!, Folha de S. Paulo	Kennedy Alencar
17 September 2012	TV Cultura, Estadão, YouTube	Mario Sergio Conti
24 September 2012	TV Gazeta, Portal Terra	Maria Lydia Flandoli
1 October 2012	Rede Record	colspan="13"
4 October 2012	Rede Globo

Second round

Date	Host	Moderator	width=30	Fernando Haddad (PT)	width=30	José Serra (PSDB)
N/A	TV Cultura	colspan="3"
15 October 2012	TV Gazeta	colspan="3"
18 October 2012	TV Bandeirantes	Fábio Pannunzio
21 October 2012	RedeTV!	colspan="3"
22 October 2012	Rede Record	colspan="3"
24 October 2012	SBT, UOL	Carlos Nascimento
26 October 2012	Rede Globo, G1	César Tralli

Opinion polls

First round

Polling aggregates
Active candidates
José Serra (PSDB)
Fernando Haddad (PT)
Celso Russomanno (PRB)
Gabriel Chalita (PMDB)
Soninha Francine (PPS)
Carlos Giannazi (PSOL)
Paulo Pereira (PDT)
Others
Abstentions/Undecided

Pollster/client(s)	Date(s) conducted	Sample size	Serra	Alckmin	Haddad	Suplicy	Russomanno	Chalita	Francine	Giannazi	Valente	Pereira	Kassab	Others	Abst. Undec.	Lead
Pollster/client(s)	Date(s) conducted	Sample size	data-sort-type="number" class="sortable" style="background:;"		data-sort-type="number" class="sortable" style="background:;"		data-sort-type="number" class="sortable" style="background:;"		data-sort-type="number" class="sortable" style="background:;"		data-sort-type="number" class="sortable" style="background:;"		data-sort-type="number" class="sortable" style="background:;"	Others	Abst. Undec.	Lead	data-sort-type="number" class="sortable" style="background:;"	data-sort-type="number" class="sortable" style="background:;"	data-sort-type="number" class="sortable" style="background:;"	data-sort-type="number" class="sortable" style="background:;"	data-sort-type="number" class="sortable" style="background:;"
2012 election	7 Oct	–	30.75%	–	28.98%	–	21.60%	13.60%	2.65%	1.02%	–	0.63%	–	0.76%	12.78%	1.77%
Datafolha	5–6 Oct	3,959	24%	–	20%	–	23%	11%	4%	1%	–	1%	–	2%	14%	1%
Ibope	4–6 Oct	1,204	22%	–	22%	–	22%	11%	4%	1%	–	1%	–	1%	16%	Tie
Datafolha	2–3 Oct	2,099	23%	–	19%	–	25%	10%	4%	1%	–	1%	–	1%	14%	2%
Ibope	29 Sep–2 Oct	1,204	19%	–	18%	–	27%	11%	4%	1%	–	0%	–	0%	20%	8%
Datafolha	26–27 Sep	1,799	22%	–	18%	–	30%	9%	4%	1%	–	1%	–	1%	14%	8%
Ibope	22–24 Sep	1,204	17%	–	18%	–	34%	7%	4%	1%	–	1%	–	0%	18%	16%
Vox Populi	19–21 Sep	2,000	17%	–	17%	–	34%	5%	2%	0%	–	1%	–	1%	23%	17%
Datafolha	18–19 Sep	1,802	21%	–	15%	–	35%	8%	4%	1%	–	1%	–	1%	13%	14%
Ibope	10–12 Sep	1,001	19%	–	15%	–	35%	6%	4%	1%	–	1%	–	0%	19%	16%
Datafolha	10–11 Sep	1,221	20%	–	17%	–	32%	8%	5%	1%	–	1%	–	0%	16%	15%
Datafolha	3–4 Sep	1,078	21%	–	16%	–	35%	7%	5%	1%	–	1%	–	2%	12%	14%
Ibope	28–30 Aug	1,001	20%	–	16%	–	31%	5%	4%	0%	–	1%	–	2%	23%	11%
Vox Populi	28–29 Aug	1,069	22%	–	14%	–	31%	7%	4%	1%	–	2%	–	1%	17%	9%
Vox Populi	28–29 Aug	1,070	22%	–	14%	–	31%	7%	4%	1%	–	2%	–	0%	17%	9%
Datafolha	20 Aug	1,000	27%	–	8%	–	31%	6%	5%	0%	–	4%	–	1%	16%	4%
Ibope	13–15 Aug	805	26%	–	9%	–	26%	5%	5%	1%	–	5%	–	1%	22%	Tie
Ibope	31 Jul–2 Aug	805	26%	–	6%	–	25%	5%	7%	1%	–	5%	–	2%	23%	1%
Datafolha	19–20 Jul	1,075	30%	–	7%	–	26%	6%	7%	1%	–	5%	–	2%	17%	4%
Datafolha	25–26 Jun	1,081	31%	–	6%	–	24%	6%	6%	1%	–	3%	–	6%	16%	7%
Datafolha	13–14 Jun	1,077	30%	–	8%	–	21%	6%	8%	1%	–	5%	–	8%	12%	9%
Ibope	13–14 Jun	1,077	31%	–	3%	–	16%	6%	7%	1%	–	5%	–	9%	21%	15%
2008 election	5 Oct	–	–	22.48%	–	32.79%	–	–	4.19%	–	0.67%	–	33.61%	6.27%	6.67%	0.82%

Second round

Polling aggregates
Active candidates
Fernando Haddad (PT)
José Serra (PSDB)
Abstentions/Undecided

Pollster/client(s)	Date(s) conducted	Sample size	Haddad	Suplicy	Serra	Kassab	Abst. Undec.	Lead
Pollster/client(s)	Date(s) conducted	Sample size	data-sort-type="number" class="sortable" style="background:;"		data-sort-type="number" class="sortable" style="background:;"		Abst. Undec.	Lead	data-sort-type="number" class="sortable" style="background:;"	data-sort-type="number" class="sortable" style="background:;"
2012 election	28 Oct	–	55.27%	–	44.43%	–	11.58%	10.84%
Ibope	26–27 Oct	1,204	50%	–	35%	–	15%	15%
Datafolha	26–27 Oct	3,992	48%	–	34%	–	18%	14%
Ibope	22–24 Oct	1,204	49%	–	36%	–	15%	13%
Datafolha	23–24 Oct	2,084	49%	–	34%	–	17%	15%
Datafolha	17–18 Oct	2,098	49%	–	32%	–	19%	17%
Ibope	15–17 Oct	1,204	49%	–	33%	–	18%	16%
Ibope	9–11 Oct	1,204	48%	–	37%	–	15%	11%
Datafolha	9–10 Oct	2,090	47%	–	37%	–	16%	10%
2008 election	26 Oct	–	–	39.28%	–	60.72%	6.31%	21.44%

Results

Municipal Chamber

Notes and References

Web site: Resultado 1º Turno - São Paulo - SP - Eleições 2012. Terra. 7 October 2012. 4 December 2017.
Web site: Resultado 2° Turno - São Paulo - SP - Eleições 2012. Terra. 28 October 2012. 4 December 2017.