Flávio Bolsonaro finished first in a field of 12 candidates in the first round of the presidential election, held on October 4. He outperformed pre-election polling that put him behind incumbent president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, but he fell short of the 50 percent needed to claim outright victory. He faced Lula again in a runoff on October 25 and lost by over 4 million votes.
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