Agência Brasil
Brasília – 27,320,458 registered voters in 44 municipalities in Brazil will return to the ballot boxes on October 31 to choose the mayors of their cities. São Paulo is the state with the largest number of municipalities and voters in the second round: 11,653,436 voters in 12 cities.
Rio de Janeiro state is in second place, with 1,943,960 voters in five municipalities, followed by Parana, with 1,929,800 voters in four cities, and Minas Gerais, with 1,293,019 voters, also in four cities.
The criterion for a municipality to hold a second round, if none of the candidates gets an absolute majority in the first round, is to have more than 200 thousand registered voters. Of the 44 cities in which the mayoralty race is still to be decided, 15 are state capitals.
