The Brazilian Electoral Court has begun releasing results of a Presidential elections Runoff.
Court president Kassio Nunes Marques said the Brazil election 2026 runoff is between Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazil’s president, and Flávio Bolsonaro, senator for Rio de Janeiro and son of former president Jair Bolsonaro.
“Historically we set a fictional benchmark of 8:30 p.m. Brasília time, but it falls around 8:30 and 9,” said Kassio Nunes Marques referring to actual time of announcing the winner.
“Everything” is running “within what was expected,” He said.
Brazil with 213.9 million people, is Latin America’s largest country. Vote counting is conducted electronically, so the winner is usually known within hours of the polls closing.
Almost 160 million in Brazil are eligible to vote.
US influence in Brazil Vote
The influence of US is vivid in these elections.
US President Donald Trump is close to the Bolsonaro family.
Lula has presented himself as a defense against US interference.
The right “wants to govern with the American flag,” Lula said after casting his ballot on Sunday.
Senior Bolsonaro imitated Trump’s rhetoric and policies, he also refused to concede defeat after losing to Lula in 2022, leading to his imprisonment for an attempted coup, provoking comparisons with Trump’s own defeat to Joe Biden in 2020.
A Bolsonaro win would mark a further move in Latin America toward pro-US far-right leaders, following in the footsteps of countries such as Colombia, Chile and Peru.
