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Brazil’s presidential contest moves to an October 25 runoff
Brazil’s electoral court, TSE, confirms that Flávio Bolsonaro and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva face a presidential runoff on October 25. This combines earlier captured reports as a results follow-up: leading round one is not election to the presidency.
At the court’s stated checkpoint—00:11 local time on October 5, with 99.99% of ballot boxes counted—Bolsonaro had 47.03% of valid votes and Lula 45.16%. Neither exceeded the majority needed to win outright. These are timestamped announcement figures, not a fresh poll or a final-result readback.
The separately labelled valid-vote total conflicts with the percentages and blank/null-vote figures, so we omit it. The morning check returned the same announcement checkpoint; the results portal exposed only its application shell, not readable final counts. These figures remain provisional. Unsupported fraud or foreign-influence claims are not included.
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