Brazil's 2022 Election Marks Third-Narrowest Presidential Victory Since 1989

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Brazil's presidential election on Sunday was the third closest since the country's return to democracy, with Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva defeating Flávio Bolsonaro by 3.58 percentage points, or 4 million votes. Lula won with 51.79% of the vote. The 2022 election remains the tightest, with Lula beating Jair Bolsonaro by 1.8 points. In 2014, Dilma Rousseff defeated Aécio Neves by 3.3 points, while Fernando Collor beat Lula by 6 points in 1989. The largest margins include Fernando Henrique Cardoso's 27-point win in 1994 and Lula's 22-point victory in 2002. Bolsonaro won by 10 points in 2018, and Rousseff won by 12 points in 2010.


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