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Candidate Eduardo Braide (PSD) was elected governor of Maranhão this Sunday (4) with 2,104,122 votes, equivalent to 54.02%, according to the Superior Electoral Court (TSE). The elected vice-governor is Elaine Carneiro (PSD).

Second place, Orleans Brandão (MDB), achieved 34.76% with 1,354,044 votes. In total, there were 3,846,156 valid votes. Of these, 93,669 were blank votes, 169,646 were invalid and 1,022,456 were abstentions.

The dispute for the government of Maranhão reached the 1st round marked by the division of the political group that commanded the state in recent years. Eduardo Braide (PSD), then mayor of São Luís and member of the opposition to the state government, left office in March to run for governor of Maranhão for the first time.

A woman was found stabbed to death, on Saturday (3), inside a condominium located on Estrada de Ribamar, in São José de Ribamar, in the São Luís Metropolitan Region. According to the police, the victim was found in the bathroom of the property. The Civil Police of Maranhão (PC-MA) opened an investigation to investigate the case.

A collapse at a construction site left one worker dead and another injured, on Monday (5), at Residencial Turiúba, in São José de Ribamar. The worker who died was identified as Marcos Vinícios da Conceição Silva.

The captain of the Maranhão Military Police (PMMA) Jurambergson Gomes Soeiro Sobrinho Silva was arrested on Thursday (8), in São Luís, in compliance with a preventive arrest warrant. The soldier is being investigated for attacking a military police officer and shooting another woman at a gas station.

The ceiling of a classroom at Escola Municipal José Santana Rodrigues, in Morros, collapsed on Thursday (8). A student and a teacher were injured. Classes are suspended.

The Maranhão Court annulled the R$1.2 million contract signed by the City of São Luís for the singer Gusttavo Lima's concert, held in 2025, and ordered the company responsible to return R$300,000 to the public coffers for overpricing.