# 2016 Tangará municipal election

[Brazil](https://electionsarchive.com/br.md) / [Rio Grande do Norte](https://electionsarchive.com/br/rn.md) / [Tangará](https://electionsarchive.com/br/rn/tangara.md), October 2, 2016

Turnout: 10,328 of 12,346 registered voters (83.7%). −1.7 points since 2012.

## [Mayor of Tangará](https://electionsarchive.com/br/rn/tangara/2016-10-02-local/mayor.md)

| Candidate or party | Party | Votes | Share | Result |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jorge Eduardo de Carvalho Bezerra | PR | 4,980 | 50.8% | Elected |
| Jose Airton Bezerra | PDT | 4,829 | 49.2% |  |

## [Municipal Chamber of Tangará](https://electionsarchive.com/br/rn/tangara/2016-10-02-local/municipal-chamber.md)

PMDB won 4 of the 11 seats, with 27.6% of the vote.

| Candidate or party | Votes | Share | Seats |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Partido do Movimento Democrático Brasileiro | 2,716 | 27.6% | 4 |
| Partido Socialista Brasileiro | 2,219 | 22.5% | 2 |
| Partido Democrático Trabalhista | 1,413 | 14.4% | 1 |
| Partido da República | 1,406 | 14.3% | 1 |
| Partido Social Democrático | 695 | 7.1% | 1 |
| Partido da Social Democracia Brasileira | 624 | 6.3% | 1 |
| Partido Popular Socialista | 573 | 5.8% | 1 |
| Partido Socialismo e Liberdade | 109 | 1.1% |  |
| Patriota | 88 | 0.9% |  |

## Contests

- [2016 Tangará mayoral election](https://electionsarchive.com/br/rn/tangara/2016-10-02-local/mayor.md)
- [2016 Tangará Municipal Chamber election](https://electionsarchive.com/br/rn/tangara/2016-10-02-local/municipal-chamber.md)

Also available as HTML at https://electionsarchive.com/br/rn/tangara/2016-10-02-local and JSON at https://electionsarchive.com/br/rn/tangara/2016-10-02-local.json.