# 2014 Rio Grande do Sul gubernatorial election

The Rio Grande do Sul gubernatorial election was held on 5 October 2014 to elect the next governor of the state of Rio Grande do Sul. Since no candidate received more than 50% of the vote in the first round, a second-round runoff election was held on 26 October.
Incumbent governor Tarso Genro was running for a second term, a distinction not achieved in recent history. His main challengers were Senator Ana Amélia Lemos of the Progressive Party and former Mayor of Caxias do Sul José Ivo Sartori of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party.
Opinion polls leading up to the first round had shown Genro with a comfortable lead over his primary rival Lemos and Sartori steadily gaining support. Eventually, it was Sartori who defied opinion polls and ended comfortably in first place. Genro finished in second to advance to the runoff while Lemos finished in a distant third.
In the second round, Sartori defeated Genro with over 60% of the vote and was elected for a four-year term as governor.

## Candidates
### Coalitions

| Candidate | Running mate | Coalition |
| Ana Amélia Lemos PP | Cassiá Carpes SD | "The Hope that unites Rio Grande" (PP, SD, PSDB, PRB) |
| Vieira da Cunha PDT | Flávio José Gomes PSC | "Rio Grande Deserves More" (PDT, PSC, DEM, PV, PEN) |
| Tarso Genro PT | Abigail Pereira PCdoB | "Popular Unity at Rio Grande" (PT, PCdoB, PTB, PTC, PROS, PR, PPL) |
| José Ivo Sartori PMDB | José Paulo Cairolli PSD | "The New Way to Rio Grande" (PMDB, PSD, PPS, PSB, PSDC, PSL, PHS, PTdoB) |
| Humberto Carvalho PCB | Nuberm Airton Cabral Medeiros PCB | - |
| Edison Estivalete PRTB | Hermes Aloísio PRTB | - |
| Roberto Robaina PSOL | Gabrielle Tolotti PSOL | "Left Front" (PSOL, PSTU) |

## Opinion Polling

| Date | Institute | Candidate | Candidate | Candidate | Candidate | Candidate | Candidate | Candidate | Candidate | Blank/Null/Undecided |
| Date | Institute | Tarso Genro (PT) | Ana Amélia Lemos (PP) | José Ivo Sartori (PMDB) | Vieira da Cunha (PDT) | Roberto Robaina (PSOL) | João Carlos Rodrigues (PMN) | Edison Estivalete (PRTB) | Humberto Carvalho (PCB) | Blank/Null/Undecided |
| September 25–26, 2014 | Datafolha | 31% | 31% | 17% | 2% | 1% | - | - | - | 18% |
| September 21–23, 2014 | Ibope | 30% | 37% | 15% | 1% | - | - | - | - | 16% |
| September 17–18, 2014 | Datafolha | 27% | 37% | 13% | 3% | - | - | - | - | 19% |
| September 8–10, 2014 | Methodus | 27.7% | 39.4% | 11.8% | 3.9% | 1% | - | - | - | 15.6% |
| September 8–9, 2014 | Datafolha | 28% | 37% | 11% | 2% | 1% | - | - | - | 20% |
| September 7–9, 2014 | Ibope | 30% | 38% | 11% | 2% | - | - | - | - | 18% |
| September 5–6, 2014 | Vox Populi | 26% | 36% | 12% | 3% | - | - | - | - | 22% |
| September 2–3, 2014 | Datafolha | 31% | 39% | 10% | 3% | - | - | - | - | 17% |
| August 19–23, 2014 | Methodus | 31.2% | 40.9% | 5.8% | 4.7% | 2% | - | - | - | 15.4% |
| August 12–14, 2014 | Datafolha | 30% | 39% | 7% | 3% | 1% | 1% | - | - | 20% |
| August 8–13, 2014 | Methodus | 31% | 42.4% | 5.9% | 4.1% | 1.4% | - | 0.1% | 0.7% | 14.3% |
| August 2–5, 2014 | Ibope | 35% | 36% | 5% | 4% | 1% | - | - | 1% | 24% |
| July 13–16, 2014 | Ibope | 31% | 37% | 4% | 2% | 1% | 1% | 0% | 0% | 21% |
| March 27–31, 2014 | Ibope | 31% | 38% | 5% | 3% | 1% | - | - | - | | 21% |