Mário Covas

Template:Short description Template:Portuguese name Mário Covas Almeida Júnior (; 21 April 1930 – 6 March 2001) was a Brazilian politician.

Biography

Covas studied engineering at the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo. He entered politics in his native city of Santos, in the state of São Paulo.

He was elected federal representative, mayor of São Paulo City (1983–1985), senator and twice Governor of the state of São Paulo. He was governor from 1994 to 1998, defeating Francisco Rossi in the run-off, and from 1998, defeating Paulo Maluf in the run-off, to his death in 2001. He was a founder and member of PMDB (Party of the Brazilian Democratic Movement) and later PSDB (Brazilian Social Democracy Party). In 1989, he was the PSDB presidential candidate, receiving 11% of the votes. In the run-off of that election, he supported, like his party, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

He took a medical leave of absence on 22 January 2001, due to bladder cancer found during an operation to remove a prostate tumor. He died later the same year. His successor was his deputy, Geraldo Alckmin.

Electoral history

1994 São Paulo gubernatorial election

Party		Candidate	Round 1		Round 2
			Votes	%	Votes	%
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	PSDB	Mário Covas	6,574,517	46.84	8,661,960	56.12
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	PDT	Francisco Rossi	3,119,592	22.23	6,771,454	43.88
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	PT	José Dirceu	2,085,193	14.86	Eliminated
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	PMDB	Barros Munhoz	1,584,397	11.29	Eliminated
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	PP	Luiz Antônio Medeiros	317,593	2.26	Eliminated
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	PRONA	Álvaro Soares Dutra	144,196	1.03	Eliminated
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	PSC	Eduardo Resstom	134,064	0.95	Eliminated
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	PRN	Ciro Moura	75,727	0.54	Eliminated
Total votes			14,035,279	100.00%	15,433,414	100.00%
Invalid and blank votes			4,377,969	23.78%	2,315,122	13.04%
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	PSDB gain from PMDB

1998 São Paulo gubernatorial election

Party		Candidate	Round 1		Round 2
			Votes	%	Votes	%
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	PSDB	Mário Covas	3,813,186	22.95	9,800,253	55.37
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	PPB	Paulo Maluf	5,351,026	32.21	7,900,598	44.63
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	PT	Marta Suplicy	3,738,750	22.51	Eliminated
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	PDT	Francisco Rossi	2,843,515	17.18	Eliminated
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	PMDB	Orestes Quércia	714,097	4.30	Eliminated
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	PRONA	Constantino Cury	68,906	0.41	Eliminated
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	PSTU	Antônio Donizete	29,033	0.18	Eliminated
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	PSDC	João Manuel Batista	24,229	0.15	Eliminated
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	PSC	Edson Falanga	14,853	0.09	Eliminated
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	PRTB	Levy Fidelix	14,406	0.08	Eliminated
Total votes			16,612,001	100.00%	17,700,851	100.00%
Invalid and blank votes			2,858,536	14.68%	1,473,216	7.68%
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	PSDB hold

External links

• Fundação Mario Covas biography

References

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