2008 Brazilian municipal elections
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Municipal elections were held in Brazil on October 5 and October 26, 2008.[1] Over 130 million voters chose mayors and city councillors for the 5,565 municipalities of Brazil.[2]
Brazilian law allowed candidates to run under ballot names different from their legal names. At least six candidates chose the ballot name "Barack Obama" [3] and some entrepreneurs used ballot names that make reference to their business.[4]
Mayoral elections results
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References
[edit]- ^ "Elections calendar" (in Portuguese). Tribunal Regional Eleitoral de São Paulo. Archived from the original on 2008-09-23.
- ^ "Elections statistics" (in Portuguese). Tribunal Superior Eleitoral. Archived from the original on 2011-07-24.
- ^ Tom Phillips (2008-09-15). "Now for Brazil's Barack Obamas - all six of them". The Guardian.
- ^ Rodrigo Bertolotto (2008-09-26). ""Candidato-empresa" aproveita eleição e promove sua firma" (in Portuguese). UOL Notícias.