# Brazil election: Lula and Flavio Bolsonaro tied in latest polls

https://mins.news/en/item/68255

- Al Jazeera, 2026-09-22 03:03 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/22/brazil-election-lula-and-flavio-bolsonaro-tied-in-latest-polls?traffic_source=rss

> With Brazil’s first-round election less than two weeks away, two new polls show President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Senator Flavio Bolsonaro statistically tied in simulated runoffs. Quaest gave Bolsonaro 42 percent and Lula 41 percent, while BTG Pactual/Nexus put Lula at 46 percent and Bolsonaro at 45 percent.

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