Pedro Taques

The Mato Grosso gubernatorial election was held on 5 October 2014 to elect the next governor of the state of Mato Grosso.

If no candidate had received more than 50% of the vote, a second-round runoff election would have been held on 26 October.

[1] Governor Silval Barbosa did not run for a second term.

Senator Pedro Taques of the PDT won election to the open seat in the first round.