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Six candidates will contest the Sergipe governorship with 1.74 million voters eligible
Agência Brasil reported that Sergipe will have six contenders in this year’s race for governor. Women make up a slight majority of the electorate.
Six candidates are running for governor of Sergipe in this year’s elections, according to Agência Brasil. The state has 1,740,124 eligible voters.
As reported by the outlet, 53% of Sergipe’s electorate are women and 47% are men. Among voters who declared race or color, 66.75% identified as mixed-race, 19.66% as white and 12.76% as Black. Yellow and Indigenous voters together account for less than 1%.
The first round is scheduled for October 4. On that date, voters will also choose federal and state lawmakers, two senators, a governor and a president, with the latter two tickets including their running mates. The Senate slate is made up of one main candidate and two alternates.
The runoff is set for the 25th and may take place in the races for governor and president. Agência Brasil said voters will return to the polls if no candidate wins more than 50% of valid votes in the first round, excluding blank and null ballots.
Among the names cited by Agência Brasil is Dr. Helton, the ballot name used by José Helton Silva Monteiro of PSOL.
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About this piece. Written by El Notero with AI assistance, from reporting published by the outlet cited above. El Notero did no original reporting on this story.
