Brazil heads for unpredicatable election

Brazil’s presidential campaign is growing increasingly polarized ahead of the first round on October 7, with voters rejecting centrist candidates and gravitating to opposite ends of the political spectrum

BRAZIL PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION VOTING INTENTION*

Selected candidates, %

Sep 6 Bolsonaro survives stabbing attack

Sep 11: Haddad named as PT candidate after disqualification of former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

 
22  28  Bolsonaro
16   7  Silva
10  13  Gomes
 9   9  Alckmin
 4  16  Haddad 

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*Poll of 8,601 people, Sep 18-19. Margin of error plus or minus 2 percent

Jair Bolsonaro PSL
Fernando Haddad PT
Ciro Gomes  PDT
Geraldo Alckmin PSDB
Marina Silva  REDE


KEY TO PARTIES
PT   Workers’ Party (left wing)
PDT  Democratic Labour Party (centre left)
REDE Sustainability Network (centre left)
PSDB Brazilian Social Democracy (centre right)
PSL  Social Liberal Party (right wing)
           
 
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