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Sep 28, 2026

Moro nears a first-round win in Paraná, but rivals retain a path

The Paraná Pesquisas survey portrays Sergio Moro as the clear front-runner and potentially a first-round winner, while the figures also show Sandro Alex gaining ground and Requião Filho remaining the principal rival by current vote share.

Sergio Moro leads Paraná’s race for governor with 46.2% of total voting intentions, a result that becomes 50.1% when blank, null and undecided responses are removed. That calculation would put the senator just over the threshold needed to win without a runoff.

The survey’s central contrast is between Moro’s commanding present position and the momentum of his closest challengers. Requião Filho is second in the prompted poll on 23.6%, followed by Sandro Alex on 21.5%. On valid votes, their support is 25.6% and 23.3%, respectively, leaving neither close to Moro but keeping the margin relevant in a contest where his first-round edge is narrow.

Paraná Pesquisas interviewed 1,280 voters in 60 municipalities from September 25 to 27, using in-person household interviews. The poll has a margin of error of 2.8 percentage points and is registered with the Superior Electoral Court as PR-02701/2026.

Moro’s standing has been broadly stable in the institute’s recent series: after registering 46.1% in August, he fell to 45% and then 44.7% before returning to 46.2%. Sandro Alex, by contrast, rose from 16.5% in August to 21.5%, a cumulative five-point increase. Requião Filho varied more modestly, from 23.4% to 23.6% over the same period.

Other measures also favor Moro. In the unprompted question, he had 33.4%, against 14.2% for Requião Filho and 13% for Sandro Alex, although 34.3% did not name a candidate. And 52.7% of respondents identified Moro as the likely winner, compared with 17.7% for Sandro Alex and 15.1% for Requião Filho.

Requião Filho nevertheless faces the highest rejection rate, at 39%, while Moro’s is 27.3% and Sandro Alex’s 12.9%. The figures reinforce Moro’s advantage while underlining that a result at the valid-vote cutoff remains sensitive to movement among undecided voters and the poll’s margin of error.