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Brazil's Lula beats Flavio Bolsonaro to win re-election

26 Oct 2026, 00:23 UTC · Brasília, Brazil · confirmed by 4 outlets

Lula clinched a fourth term in a tight runoff on Sunday with 51.7% of the vote to Bolsonaro's 48.2%, official results showed.

Location: Brasília, Brazil · Brazil live map
Coordinates: 15.79°S 47.88°W
Reported: 26 Oct 2026, 00:23 UTC
Category: Unrest & politics · Politics
Impact: 2 of 5 · Notable
Situation: Brazil politics

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Lula wins fourth term, beating Flavio Bolsonaro in a tight runoff

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva won re-election in Sunday's presidential runoff, official results showed. With nearly 99% of votes counted, he had 51.75% to Flavio Bolsonaro's 48.25%. Lula had narrowly lost the first round, in which Bolsonaro led by more than 2.2 million votes. Polls closed on Sunday evening after a campaign in which surveys showed the two about even.

Official results gave Lula 51.7% and Bolsonaro 48.2%, a fourth term for Lula.
Bolsonaro won the first round 47% to 45%, but neither candidate took an absolute majority.
On Saturday tens of thousands of Lula supporters rallied on Rio's beach, and about 159 million Brazilians were eligible to vote.
About 21% of adults abstained in the first round.

Updated 26 Oct 2026, 00:39 UTC · Written by Claude from the reports on this page and on the map. Check the linked sources for full details.

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