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1965 Maranhão gubernatorial election

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 23, 2025
Entity authorityQ18472236 ↗
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The Maranhão gubernatorial election of 1965 as held in Brazilian state of Maranhão on October 3, alongside Brazil's general elections. UDN candidate, José Sarney, was elected on October 3, 1965.

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This entry incorporates text from “1965 Maranhão gubernatorial election” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.