Lula Wins Brazil Runoff After Trailing Flávio Bolsonaro in First Round
Update — October 26, 2026: Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court declared Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva reelected after the October 25 runoff. The official result gave Lula 64,256,232 votes, or 51.79% of valid votes, and Flávio Bolsonaro 59,826,041, or 48.21%. The remainder of this article preserves CurrentFront’s October 5 report on the first-round result and the questions that were open before the runoff. Sources: Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court — October 26, 2026 ; Reuters — October 25–26, 2026 . Original report: first-round result ARCHIVE PHOTOS — Lula speaking at the United Nations in New York, September 22, 2026 (left); Flávio Bolsonaro speaking in Brazil's Senate, September 1, 2026 (right). These are separate events, not a meeting or scenes from election night. Photos: Ricardo Stuckert / Lula Oficial ( source ) and Carlos Moura / Agência Senado ( source ); both CC BY-SA 4.0 . Displayed with equivalent crops. BRASÍLI...