
Candidates for the government and Senate in Tocantins voted this Sunday (4) in Palmas and other cities, while the Electoral Court registered 222 incidents during the vote, 208 of which were resolved and 14 were being attended to, with six ballot boxes replaced by 4pm.
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The 2026 elections in Tocantins took place this Sunday (4) with voting in several municipalities in the state, involving governor and senator positions, with monitoring by the Electoral Court and security forces.
The candidate for the government of Tocantins by the PSDB, Vicentinho Júnior, voted at around 4pm this Sunday (4), at Faculdade Anhanguera Unopar, in Palmas. After voting, he posed for photos with his family and spoke to supporters there.
"Very purposeful on our part, as I've already said to some of our colleagues here, respectful. Those who have followed these months of our journey, didn't see me as a candidate who wanted to present me, I was disrespecting my opponent, I didn't attack anyone [...] Tomorrow Monday for me is another normal day of good politics", he said.
Six ballot boxes were replaced in polling stations in Tocantins by 4pm on this voting Sunday. According to the Electoral Court bulletin, 222 incidents were recorded. Of the total, 208 were resolved and 14 are being addressed.
According to the bulletin, the term “occurrences” is used for any type of service, activity or problem at the location where voting takes place. Examples include failures in the power and water supply, poll workers who did not show up and other situations.
TRE-TO recorded 222 incidents during voting this Sunday (4), of which 208 have already been resolved. By 4pm, six electronic voting machines needed to be replaced and 14 incidents were still being attended to.
According to the bulletin, the term “occurrences” is used for any type of service, activity or problem at the location where voting takes place. Examples include failures in the power and water supply, poll workers who did not show up and other situations.
The candidate for the Senate for Tocantins, Eduardo Gomes (PL), voted this Sunday (4) at Escola Vinícius de Moraes, in Palmas. He arrived at the polling place around 2 pm, accompanied by his son Cadú, government candidate Professora Dorinha and her two deputies, as well as the mayor of Palmas, Eduardo Siqueira Campos.
The Senate candidate for Tocantins, Ronaldo Dimas (Podemos), voted at 11:18 am at Colégio Santa Cruz, in Araguaína. Upon leaving the polling place, he declared that "the campaign was wonderful and I leave here very hopeful that we will represent Tocantins in the Federal Senate. I was very happy with all the expressions of support we received along this journey. I want to thank each person from Tocantins for their trust, affection and for believing in our project."
The Senate candidate for Tocantins, Paulo Mourão (PT), voted this Sunday (4) in Palmas and stated that his platform focuses on combating poverty and encouraging regional development with the distribution of wealth. In a recorded statement shortly after registering his vote, the candidate highlighted the exercise of citizenship and the search for representation in the National Congress.
On election day, it is possible to take a paper election sticker with the voting order to the ballot box to help voters when making their choices. It is not permitted to use a cell phone in the voting booth and it must remain in the location indicated by the poll workers while the voter votes. Download the g1 newsletter to print
The candidate for the government of Tocantins by the PSD, Laurez Moreira, voted at around 9 am this Sunday (4), at the Bom Jesus Secondary Education Center, on Avenida Paraíba, in the center of Gurupi. After voting, he posed for photos and made a gesture with his candidacy number.
The Senate candidate for União Brasil, Carlos Gaguim, voted early this Sunday morning (4), accompanied by his wife, Rose Amorim, at Maple Bear school, in Palmas.
"We arrived at election day with a clear conscience and the certainty that we ran a clean, purposeful campaign alongside the people. I want to thank every Tocantina resident who opened the door to their home, who walked with us and who believed in our proposals."
The Integrated Command and Control Center of the State of Tocantins (CICCE/TO) informs that it has active operational status for Operation Elections 2026. To date, the following have been recorded:
three instances of disobedience of the Electoral Court;
one occurrence of irregular electoral propaganda;
two instances of vote buying.
Participating in this operation are the Public Security Secretariat of Tocantins (SSP/TO), the Civil, Military, Federal, Federal Highway and Penal Police, the Brazilian Army, the Metropolitan Guard of Palmas, the State Department of Traffic (Detran), the Military Fire Department and the Brazilian Intelligence Agency (Abin).
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The results of the elections for governor and senate in Tocantins will be released in the next few hours after the polls close.
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Senate candidate André do Prado (PL) voted at Escola Ivan Brasil, in Guararema, accompanied by his family and local authorities. Until 3 pm, Operation Elections 2026 in São Paulo recorded 86 incidents and 34 arrests, mostly due to exit polls. In Franca, a 69-year-old woman was arrested for distributing election leaflets. At least 33 electoral zones lost power due to rain, but voting was not interrupted.

Voter Rafaella Cortinoves was unable to vote in the first round of the 2026 elections after a tree fell on her car during a storm in Piracicaba (SP), preventing her from reaching the polling place in the Vila Fátima neighborhood. She was with two friends, who managed to vote at the Professor Antônio de Mello Cotrim school. No one was injured, but another car was hit and a wheelchair user had difficulty accessing the polling station due to the closure of Rua Dona Stella.

The candidate for the government of Ceará Ieri Braga (PCO) voted on Sunday (4) at Colégio Maria Ester II, in Parque Dois Irmãos, in Fortaleza, accompanied by his wife and daughter.

On election Sunday (4), voters in Baixada Santista faced heavy rain, while elderly people like Hermenegildo, 96, and Maurício, 62, who used a skateboard to vote, highlighted their civic engagement. There were isolated cases of irregular distribution of campaign material and a woman fell ill at a polling station in Santos.

Three TSE ministers and assistants to Kassio Nunes Marques and André Mendonça consider the opening of preliminary proceedings by the PF on alleged foreign interference in the 2026 elections to be exaggerated, claiming that the action could judicialize the election and unduly question the results of the polls.