Bolsonaro Led by 9.6 Points at 30% Counted and Won by 1.9. The Polls Missed Only One Candidate.

Final Polls Had Flávio Bolsonaro Ahead 51–49. Lula Won 51.8–48.2, and the Two-Hour Extension Is Now the Dispute

Updated 2026-10-26 ~15:00 UTC. This follows my 10-05 piece on the first round, where the final polls got Lula's share right and missed Flávio Bolsonaro's by...

REACTION: Flávio Bolsonaro and Lula Advance to Brazil's Presidential Runoff

The eldest son of former President Jair Bolsonaro now looks like the favorite against the incumbent in the October 25 runoff.

Incumbent Lula is declared winner of Brazil's election as Bolsonaro rejects results

Bolsonaro quickly refused to concede defeat and asked for the election results to be annulled after an evening of chaos at some polling places that followed a last-minute decision to extend voting by two hours.

Bolsonaro’s party accepts Brazil election after Trump calls vote ‘rigged’

Trump pushes unsubstantiated claims about Brazil's presidential vote but says he 'didn't take sides' in the race.

Brazil’s Lula wins electoral court challenge against Meta for alleged pro-Bolsonaro algorithm bias

A judge of Brazil’s top electoral court ruled on Thursday in favor of the campaign of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who earlier filed a complaint against Meta.

This Is How We Radicalized The World

On Sunday, far-right evangelical Jair Bolsonaro was elected president of Brazil. The era of being surprised at this kind of politics is over. Now we have to live with what we've done.

Here’s what happened when Brazil banned corporate donations in elections

In the wake of corruption scandals, Brazil banned corporate donations to electoral campaigns. This is what happened.

Lula réélu président du Brésil à la surprise générale, au terme d’une mobilisation massive et d’un scrutin chaotique

Le candidat de gauche était arrivé au premier tour derrière son rival, Flavio Bolsonaro, qui réclame l’annulation de l’élection après des prolongations désordonnées d’ouverture des bureaux de vote.

Mapa de conexões de Flávio Bolsonaro

Ligamos os pontos. Reunimos em um só lugar os escândalos e investigações relacionadas a Flávio Bolsonaro para consulta pública, baseada em fontes jornalísticas.

As pesquisas para presidente na véspera do 2º turno — o que diziam em 2018, 2022 e o que mostram agora - BBC News Brasil

O cenário eleitoral mudou ao longo dos anos: Flávio Bolsonaro ocupa a primeira posição nas pesquisas de 2026, enquanto Lula era o favorito em 2022 e Jair Bolsonaro, em 2018. Confira a trajetória nos gráficos da reportagem.

The Brazilianization of the World - American Affairs Journal

The West’s involution finds its mirror image in the original coun­try of the future, the nation doomed forever to remain the country of the future, the one that never reaches its destination: Brazil. The Brazilianization of the world is our encounter with a future denied, and in which this frustration has become constitutive of our social reality. While the closing of historical horizons has often been a leftist, indeed Marxist, concern, the sense that things don’t work as they should is now widely shared across the political spectrum. Welcome to Brazil. Here the only people satisfied with their situation are financial elites and venal politicians. Everyone complains, but everyone shrugs their shoulders. This slow degradation of society is not so much a runaway train, but more of a jittery rollercoaster, occasionally holding out promise of ascent, yet never break­ing free from the tracks. We always come back to where we started, shaken and disoriented, haunted by what might have been...

'Nunca fomos perdoados pelas cotas': em discurso, Lula prega mobilização por vitória no 2º turno

Apuração do primeiro turno terminou com Flávio Bolsonaro à frente de Lula na corrida eleitoral

Experts see little chance of election result being overturned | Politics | valorinternational

Lula’s 4.4 million-vote margin makes legal challenges difficult after last-minute ruling extended voting hours nationwide, analysts say