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2026 Brazilian general election: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva wins

Voters went to the polls on 4 October 2026. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva became President. Lula da Silva came first with 51.8%, Flávio Bolsonaro second with 48.2%.

Turnout:
78.92%

The result

Seats, change and vote share as the results table of 2026 Brazilian general election gives them; the change is against the seats it lists for the previous election.

Readers: each leader's busiest day around the vote, against their own usual readership. A leader the record names whose busiest day falls in the vote's days was read for the vote.

The small line: each leader's readers over these days. The figure: their busiest day against usual.

  1. Luiz Inácio Lula da SilvaWorkers' Party51.79%123× usual seats
    Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva: readers a day, peak 1M on 26 Oct · 123× usual

    See Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

  2. Flávio BolsonaroLiberal Party48.21%12× usual seats
    Flávio Bolsonaro: readers a day, peak 295K on 26 Oct · 12× usual

    See Flávio Bolsonaro

Results: 2026 Brazilian general election, Wikipedia

How it unfolded

2 reports
Readers a day, Rui Costa Pimenta4.8K at the peak

Languages, not countries.

70 days have to pass before we can say whether a rise lasted. This one has not had them yet.

The rise showed up in the Wikipedia editions in English and Portuguese.

11 October 2026 - 2 November 2026

  1. Latest

    Rui Costa Pimenta: 846 readers, 1.0× usual

  3. Associated Press
    Lula is declared winner of Brazil's election as Bolsonaro rejects resultsNames Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and 5 more
    What it said
    Flavio Bolsonaro is refusing to concede defeat to incumbent President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who bested him by nearly 4.4 million votes, following a...Associated Press

    Named in it, and how far each was read that week

    Also that day: Reuters

    Read it at Associated Press
  5. Election day

    2026 Brazilian general election

  6. From Wikipedia

    General elections were held in Brazil on 4 October 2026 to elect the president, vice president, members of the National Congress, the governors, vice governors and legislative assemblies of all federative units, and the district council of Fernando de Noronha.

    2026 Brazilian general election on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Also moved

Languages, not countries.

70 days have to pass before we can say whether a rise lasted. This one has not had them yet.

The rise showed up in the Wikipedia editions in English and Portuguese.

  1. Rui Costa PimentaJournalists

Also read more that week

The event's article names them. Read more the same days; we do not say why.

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Flávio Bolsonaro are in the result above.

  1. Andre Janones510× usual
  2. Geraldo Alckmin83× usual
  3. Jair Bolsonaro72× usual
  4. Eduardo Bolsonaro39× usual
  5. Jones Manoel37× usual
  6. Omar Aziz33× usual
  7. Camilo Santana21× usual
  8. Dilma Rousseff19× usual
  9. Michel Temer18× usual
  10. Alexandre de Moraes11× usual
  11. Aldo Rebelo10× usual
  12. Rodrigo Pacheco9.9× usual
  13. Michelle Bolsonaro9.1× usual
  14. João Figueiredo6.9× usual
  15. Pablo Marçal6.4× usual
  16. Edson Fachin6.2× usual
  17. Fernando Haddad6.2× usual
  18. Duda Salabert6.1× usual
  19. Alfredo Gaspar4.8× usual
  20. Aécio Neves4.6× usual
  21. Nikolas Ferreira4.6× usual
  22. Marina Silva4.4× usual
  23. Gilmar Mendes4.0× usual
  24. Carmen Lúcia3.9× usual

Also there

The record names them too. We measured no unusual readership for any of them.

Flávio BolsonaroLuiz Inácio Lula da Silva

The record names one more person we do not have a profile for.