# Bolsonaro favourite to win: What Brazil’s first round tells us

https://mins.news/en/item/86422

- Al Jazeera, 2026-10-05 12:34 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/5/bolsonaro-favourite-to-win-what-brazils-first-round-of-election-tells-us?traffic_source=rss

> Right-wing Senator Flavio Bolsonaro narrowly led incumbent President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in Brazil’s first-round election, winning 47 percent to Lula’s 45.1 percent. The pair will face a runoff on October 25, with analysts saying Bolsonaro is likely to win unless something highly unusual happens in the next three weeks.

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