Archive · Official results
How the official count progressed in Brazil’s 2022 presidential runoff
Brazil’s electoral court recorded 236,202 of 472,075 polling sections in the first update at or above half the count. At that point Jair Bolsonaro led the accumulated valid vote total by 363,745. The final record put Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva ahead by 2,139,645 votes.
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- 30 October, 17:00:51First archived update recorded 55 polling sections.
- 30 October, 18:26:53The count first passed half of polling sections.
- 30 October, 18:44:50The final provisional lead change put Lula ahead by 48 votes.
- 30 October, 20:00:46The count first passed 99% of polling sections.
- 31 October, 00:18:04The archive recorded all 472,075 sections.
The records show the cumulative count as sections reported. Candidate figures are provisional until the count reaches its final record.
A count update combines the sections that have already reported
The archive identifies the number of sections added at each timestamp and the running total of counted sections. The national file includes Brazil and voting abroad. The share of sections uses 472,075 as its denominator. Different sections can contain different numbers of electors and votes. Source 1
The midpoint was a provisional snapshot
The first update above half of all sections recorded 29,291,555 valid votes for Lula and 29,655,300 for Bolsonaro. Those figures describe which sections had been counted at that time. The changing geographic composition of the reporting total makes it different from a sample or a forecast. Source 1
Several short lead changes occurred before the last one
The archive records multiple changes of lead around 18:43 and 18:44. In the final such change at 18:44:50, Lula led by 48 votes across 322,518 counted sections. The margin at 75% of sections was 300,794 votes in Lula’s favor. Source 1
Final candidate shares exclude blank and invalid ballots
The last archive row gives 60,345,999 for Lula and 58,206,354 for Bolsonaro, for 118,552,353 valid candidate votes. Blank and invalid ballots are recorded separately. The final two-candidate shares are about 50.90% and 49.10%, respectively. Source 1 Source 2