Jair Bolsonaro takes lead in initial vote count of Brazil presidential election
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro took an early lead in the initial vote tally of the presidential election
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro took an early lead in the initial vote tally of the presidential election, ahead of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
Jair Bolsonaro had 52.1% of valid votes compared with 48.0% for Lula, the Superior Electoral Court reported on its website after 10.1% of voting machines were counted.
With a fifth of districts counted, Bolsonaro has taken an early lead in the Brazil election: pic.twitter.com/OLUzwZogaC
— Helen Sullivan (@helenrsullivan) October 30, 2022
Polls on the eve of the election had showed Jair Bolsonaro trailing his leftist rival, the former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, by a margin of four to eight percentage points. Lula won the first round of voting by about 6 million votes but fell short of overall majority that would have guaranteed him an outright win.
