2022 Brazilian Presidential Election
The closest runoff ever2 October and 30 October 2022 · The New Republic · two-round vote
General elections were held in Brazil on 2 October 2022 to elect the president, vice president, the National Congress, the governors, vice governors and legislative assemblies of all federative units, and the district council of Fernando de Noronha.
President before
Jair Bolsonaro
PL
Elected President
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
PT
Winning share
50.9%
second round
Turnout
79.0%
second round 79.4%
The result
| Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva | Workers' Party | 57.259.504 | 48.43% | 60.345.999 | 50.90% |
| Jair Bolsonaro | Liberal Party | 51.072.345 | 43.20% | 58.206.354 | 49.10% |
| Simone Tebet | Brazilian Democratic Movement | 4.915.423 | 4.16% | — | — |
| Ciro Gomes | Democratic Labour Party | 3.599.287 | 3.04% | — | — |
| Soraya Thronicke | Brazil Union | 600.955 | 0.51% | — | — |
| Luiz Felipe d'Avila | New Party | 559.708 | 0.47% | — | — |
| Kelmon Souza | Brazilian Labour Party | 81.129 | 0.07% | — | — |
| Leonardo Péricles | Popular Unity | 53.519 | 0.05% | — | — |
| Sofia Manzano | Brazilian Communist Party | 45.620 | 0.04% | — | — |
| Vera Lúcia Salgado | United Socialist Workers' Party | 25.625 | 0.02% | — | — |
| José Maria Eymael | Christian Democracy | 16.604 | 0.01% | — | — |