Brazil presidential election heads to runoff

Right-wing Senator Flávio Bolsonaro and leftist incumbent
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will face off after neither candidate
secured more than 50% of the vote

BRAZIL PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION FIRST ROUND (99% of votes counted)

47.03%

45.16%

Flávio Bolsonaro
Son of former
president Jair
Bolsonaro, who is
serving 27-year jail
sentence for plotting
coup after losing
2022 election

Luiz Inácio
Lula da Silva
Seeking fourth term
in office, after being
elected in 2002,
2006 and later
non-consecutive
term in 2022

Bolsonaro
Liberal Party
(PL)

Lula
Workers’ Party
(PT)

Source: BBC
Pictures: Getty Images
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