Brazil Elections 2026

Context

In October 2026, about 158.7 million registered voters in Brazil were called to the polls to choose the president, state governors, senators and members of Congress and state assemblies. The first round took place on October 4 and the runoff on October 25. The presidential race ended with Lula (PT) re-elected with 51.8% of the valid votes, against 48.2% for Flávio Bolsonaro (PL).

Brazil's Superior Electoral Court (TSE) publishes results ballot box by ballot box, in huge files designed for programmers. This dashboard brings those datasets together and shows, for the whole country, each state and each of its more than 5,500 municipalities, how people voted in both rounds, how many turned out, where the vote flipped between rounds and who the top vote-getters were for governor, Senate and Congress.

Click a state on the map to open its municipalities, or use the search box to jump straight to a city. The buttons above the map change what it shows: winner in each round, flips, turnout and the change in blank and spoiled ballots.

What the data shows

A comeback in the runoff. In the first round, Flávio Bolsonaro came out ahead with 47.0% of the valid votes, against 45.2% for Lula. The other candidates took 7.8% combined, led by Augusto Cury (2.9%), Renan Santos (2.2%) and Ronaldo Caiado (2.2%). In the runoff, Lula gained 10.4 million votes compared with the first round, while Flávio gained 3.7 million. The final gap was 4.4 million votes.

More people voted in the runoff. Turnout rose from 78.9% to 80.8% of registered voters, almost 3 million more people. Blank and spoiled ballots fell from 4.8% to 3.2% of those who voted. Not every state followed the trend: in Amapá, Roraima and Acre, turnout dropped by more than 5 points.

A country split by region. Lula won 13 states and Flávio won 14. In the Northeast, Lula won in almost every municipality, with margins above 39 points in Piauí, Bahia, Maranhão and Sergipe. Flávio's biggest leads came in Roraima, Rondônia, Santa Catarina and Acre, and he carried the vast majority of cities in the South and Center-West.

Minas Gerais flipped and decided it. It was the only state where the winner changed between rounds: Flávio led in the first round and Lula won the runoff, 50.4% to 49.6%. Nationwide, 224 municipalities switched sides, and 220 of those flips favored Lula. São Paulo, the largest electorate, gave Flávio 53.9%.

Methodology

• Source. Official results from Brazil's Superior Electoral Court (TSE), Open Data Portal, for the first and second rounds of the 2026 elections, aggregated by municipality, state and country.
• How rates are calculated. Turnout and abstention over registered voters. Blank and spoiled ballots over those who voted. Each candidate's share is over valid votes, as in the official result.
• Margin and flips. The margin is Lula minus Flávio Bolsonaro, in percentage points of valid votes. A municipality flips when the runoff winner differs from the first round leader.
• Voters abroad. Votes cast by Brazilians living abroad count toward the national total and appear in the search, but not on the map.
• Municipal profile. Population, literacy, age, race and sanitation come from IBGE's 2022 Census. GDP per capita comes from IBGE's 2023 Municipal GDP.
• Maps. IBGE municipal boundaries (2010 grid, simplified). Six municipalities created since then appear inside their original municipality on the map, but are in the search.
• Limits. The dashboard shows only the official count, with no polls or projections. For governor, Senate and Congress, only the top vote-getters for each office are shown.