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 (UNIÃÂO), 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 â Researcher at the Laboratory of Marxist Studies and Research (LEMARX â FACED/UFBA).
Withdrawn candidates
Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB)
- Zé Trindade â President of the Bahia State Urban Development Company (Conder) (2021âÂÂpresent) and councillor of Salvador (2013âÂÂ2020). He left the race as a potential candidate on 1 September 2023 due to personal and health reasons.
- LÃÂdice da Mata â Member of the Chamber of Deputies from Bahia (1987âÂÂ1991; 2007âÂÂ2011; 2019âÂÂpresent); Senator for Bahia (2011âÂÂ2019); Member of the Legislative Assembly of Bahia (1999âÂÂ2007); Mayor of Salvador (1993âÂÂ1997) and councillor of Salvador (1983âÂÂ1987). 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 â 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)
- OlÃÂvia Santana â Member of the Legislative Assembly of Bahia (2019âÂÂpresent); Secretary of Labor, Employment, Income and Sports of Bahia (2017âÂÂ2018); Secretary of Policies for Women of Bahia (2015âÂÂ2017) and Councillor of Salvador (2005âÂÂ2012). 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
Bruno Reis and 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