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.
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.