{"id":813732,"date":"2026-10-25T19:42:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T19:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/813732\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T19:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T19:42:12","slug":"brazil-elections-polls-set-to-close-in-brazils-presidential-election-run-off-between-lula-and-bolsonaros-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/813732\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil elections: Polls set to close in Brazil&#8217;s presidential election run-off between Lula and Bolsonaro&#8217;s son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The winners and losers from the first round of Brazil&#8217;s electionspublished at 16:17 GMT<\/p>\n<p>16:17 GMT<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Brazil's President President Lula da Silva (left) and presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro (right)\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/863b63c5-2461-4e62-89f7-36c87998a1e0.jpg.webp\"  width=\"1022\" height=\"575\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Brazil&#8217;s President President Lula da Silva (left) and presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro (right)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Right-wing Fl\u00e1vio Bolsonaro won the first round of Brazil&#8217;s presidential election, beating left-wing President Lula da Silva, but falling short of an outright majority.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BBC News Brasil spoke with experts to understand who the other winners and losers are from that first round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Winners:<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former president Jair Bolsonaro: He is currently under house arrest and ineligible to run for office, but if his son goes on to win in the run-off, it opens up the opportunity for amnesty, argues political scientist Murillo Arag\u00e3o.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Liberal Party (PL): The party of the Bolsonaros &#8211; the size of the victory means they can expect to retain the largest bloc in the Chamber of Deputies, which could lead to the presidency of that chamber, says Marco Antonio Teixeira, political scientist and professor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Losers:<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lula&#8217;s campaign and his Workers Party (PT): Since first becoming president in 2002, this is the first time Lula has come in second place in the first round, with Arag\u00e3o saying the campaign was made for existing voters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Social Democratic Party (PSD): Two years ago in the first round of municipal elections, they emerged as the big winners &#8211; but now are among the biggest losers. For political scientist Rafael Cortez, the first-round defeat embodies the defeat of the centrist bloc, which lost ground to the radical right.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Supreme Federal Court: The PL party increased its representation, which can already be interpreted as a defeat for the Supreme Court, according to Cortez, as they ran on &#8220;an anti-Supreme Court platform&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The winners and losers from the first round of Brazil&#8217;s electionspublished at 16:17 GMT 16:17 GMT Image source,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":813733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-813732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}