# Brazilian senator leads incumbent by 1.87 percentage points, election authority says

https://mins.news/en/item/87282

- TASS, 2026-10-06 02:24 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://tass.com/world/2197895

> Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court said conservative opposition senator Flavio Bolsonaro led incumbent President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva by 1.87 percentage points after all first-round votes were counted. Bolsonaro won 47.03%, or 56,104,503 votes, while Lula received 45.16%, or 53,879,538, leaving Bolsonaro nearly 2.225 million votes ahead.

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