Brazil girds for tight runoff vote after Bolsonaro's strong showing

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Brazil girds for tight runoff vote after Bolsonaro's strong showing

Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro and his leftist rival Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Monday buckled up for four more weeks of intense election campaigning after the president's unexpectedly strong showing in the first round set up a tight Oct. 30 runoff vote.

www.reuters.com

Most polling firms had given Lula a 10-15 point lead ahead of Sunday's vote, raising the possibility of a first-round victory for the leftist. But with 99.99% of electronic votes counted, Lula had taken 48.4% of votes versus 43.2% for Bolsonaro, meaning that neither secured the over 50% needed to avoid a runoff.

 

[Tigers!]

The only poll that counts is the one on the day.
We have learnt in Australia that nothing is as worthless as the average political opinion poll.