2024 Belo Horizonte mayoral election

2024 Belo Horizonte mayoral election
	Winner by electoral zone; Noman(18)
Mayor before election; Fuad Noman; PSD	Elected mayor ; Fuad Noman; PSD
	Municipal Chamber election
Municipal Chamber

The 2024 Belo Horizonte municipal election took place in the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil on 6 October 2024. Voters elected 41 councillors. A second round was held on October 27 as no candidate achieved 50% in the first round for mayor.

The incumbent mayor is Fuad Noman of the Social Democratic Party. Noman became mayor after the resignation of Alexandre Kalil to unsuccessfully run for governor of Minas Gerais in the 2022 Minas Gerais gubernatorial election.^[1]^[2]

State Deputy Bruno Engler of the Liberal Party, who achieved second place in 2020, and Noman advanced to a second round, defeating Mauro Tramonte of the Republicanos, the candidate of governor Romeu Zema.^[3]^[4]

Though Zema supported Engler in the second round, Noman was reelected in the second round, defeating Engler by a little less than 100,000 votes.^[5]^[6]

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7 March – 5 April	Period of the 'party window' for councillors. During this period, the councillors are able to move to other political parties in order to run for election while not losing their respective political terms.
6 April	Deadline for all parties and party federations to obtain the registration of their statutes at the Superior Electoral Court and for all candidates to have their electoral domicile in the constituency in which they wish to contest the elections with the affiliation granted by the party.
15 May	Start of the preliminary fundraising campaign in the form of collective financing for potential candidates. During this period, candidates are not allowed to ask for votes and are still subjected to obey the rules regarding electoral propaganda on the Internet.
20 July – 5 August	On this date, party conventions begin to deliberate on coalitions and choose candidates for mayors and councillors tickets. Parties have until 15 August to register their names with the Brazilian Election Justice.
16 August	Beginning of electoral campaigns on an equal basis, with any advertising or demonstration explicitly requesting for votes before the date being considered irregular and subject to fines.
30 August –3 October	Broadcasting of free electoral propaganda on radio and television.
6 October	Date of mayoral elections.
27 October	Date of a possible second round in cities with more than 200,000 voters in which the most voted candidate for mayor has not reached 50% of the valid votes.

Candidate		Running mate	Party	First round		Second round
Candidate		Running mate	Party	Votes	%	Votes	%
	Fuad Noman (incumbent)	Álvaro Damião (UNIÃO)	PSD	336,442	26.54	670,574	53.73
	Bruno Engler	Coronel Claudia	PL	435,853	34.38	577,537	46.27
	Mauro Tramonte	Luísa Barreto (NOVO)	Republicanos	192,991	15.22
	Gabriel Azevedo	Paulo Brant (PSB)	MDB	133,728	10.55
	Duda Salabert	Professor Francisco Forreaux	PDT	97,315	7.68
	Rogério Correia	Bella Gonçalves (PSOL)	PT	55,393	4.37
	Carlos Viana	Renata Rosa	PODE	12,712	1.00
	Indira Xavier	Geraldo Neres	UP	2,462	0.19
	Wanderson Rocha	Andréa Ferreira	PSTU	667	0.05
	Lourdes Francisco	Marília Garcia	PCO	231	0.02
Total				1,267,794	100.00	1,248,111	100.00

Valid votes				1,267,794	90.28	1,248,111	92.03
Invalid votes				70,263	5.00	61,885	4.56
Blank votes				66,228	4.72	46,236	3.41
Total votes				1,404,285	100.00	1,356,232	100.00
Registered voters/turnout				1,993,024	70.46	1,993,024	68.05
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2024 Belo Horizonte mayoral election

Results

First round

Full results

References

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