# Brazil’s Lula and Flavio Bolsonaro remain essentially tied in new poll

https://mins.news/en/item/73242

- Al Jazeera, 2026-09-25 00:35 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/25/brazils-lula-and-flavio-bolsonaro-still-essentially-tied-in-new-poll?traffic_source=rss

> A Datafolha poll puts Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva ahead of Senator Flavio Bolsonaro 47% to 45% in a simulated presidential runoff, but the two-point gap is within the poll’s margin of error. Lula leads the first-round scenario 40% to 36%.

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