Lula wins Brazil presidential runoff with 51.76% of vote

Briefing by News4U · First published 2026-10-26 01:41:07 UTC

Lula defeats Flavio Bolsonaro 51.76% to 48.24% after 99.78% of ballots counted, securing a historic fourth term.

Brazil’s electoral court reported that after 99.78% of ballots were counted in Sunday’s runoff, incumbent President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of the Workers’ Party received 51.76% of the vote, defeating Flavio Bolsonaro of the Liberal Party who received 48.24%. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

The result marks Lula’s fourth presidential term and reverses a first-round deficit of 2.2 million votes into a 4.3 million-vote margin of victory. [4] [5]

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