Lula wins a fourth term after historic second-round turnaround
Lula defeated Flávio Bolsonaro with 51.8% of the vote, widening his first-round deficit into a lead of nearly 11 million votes.
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Updated on October 26, 2026 at 14:14 UTCLuiz Inácio Lula da Silva defeated Flávio Bolsonaro to win a fourth presidential term, receiving 64.2 million votes (51.8%) to Bolsonaro’s 59.8 million (48.2%). After trailing by about 2 million votes in the first round, Lula widened his lead to nearly 11 million in the runoff.
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— Lula wins a fourth term after historic second-round turnaround
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