Minas Gerais mobilizes more than 40 thousand agents and defines electorate for the 2026 elections

The state is the second largest electoral college in the country, with 10,074 voting locations, and is second only to São Paulo. According to the Regional Electoral Court of Minas Gerais (TRE-MG), there are 55,820 ballot boxes in the state.

To guarantee the security of the election, an integrated operation is planned to take place with more than 40 thousand military police officers and firefighters positioned in more than 100 strategic points in the state to monitor and respond to emergencies. It is worth remembering that in these 2026 elections there will be no Dry Law in Minas Gerais.

According to the TSE, of the total of 158,745,463 Brazilians eligible to vote, 10.32% are in the state. 53 seats for the Minas Gerais bench will be defined in the Chamber of Deputies (find out about the candidates here) and two senators will be chosen. The state is considered key because, since the end of the military dictatorship, it reflects the result of the national presidential dispute.

In the ranking of cities with the highest number of eligible voters in Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte is in first place (1,961,282). Next come the cities of Uberlândia (538,195) and Contagem (463,243).

In these elections, the number of people with the right to optional voting is 2,536,928 in Minas Gerais. Of this total, 133,077 are young people aged 16 and 17 and 2,083,019 are voters over 70 years old.

According to the TSE panel, the group over 70 years old has been growing in relation to the 2022 and 2024 elections, and will show an increase of 1.66% in 2026. The group of young people aged 16 and 17 fell 0.2%.

In four years, the Minas Gerais electorate who declared to have some type of disability almost doubled, with the most significant growth concentrated between 2024 and 2026.

The number of people who make up this group in 2026 is 210,890. In 2024, there were 123,433 voters with disabilities. And in 2022, 108,424. According to the TSE, this growth is the result of campaigns carried out by the Electoral Court.

Another aspect that more than doubled between 2024 and 2026 is the number of voters in Minas Gerais with a declared race or color.

According to data from the TSE panel, the state went from 1,497,121 voters with this information, equivalent to 9.09% of the eligible electorate, in 2024, to 3,616,662, or 22.08%, in 2026. This therefore represents an increase of 12.99%.

Among voters who declared race or color in 2026, browns are the majority (1,795,303) and correspond to 10.96% of the entire electorate in the state. Next, white voters (1,306,528) and black voters (487,954) appear.

There were also 18,613 registered voters who declared themselves yellow, equivalent to 0.11% of the electorate, and 8,264 indigenous people, or 0.05%.