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PIAUÍ Lula posted his biggest margin in Piauí and Flávio Bolsonaro in Roraima
TSE results with 100% of polling stations counted showed Lula winning 13 states, while Flávio Bolsonaro carried 13 others plus the Federal District. Minas Gerais had the narrowest margin.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was re-elected president of Brazil with 51.79% of valid votes, against 48.21% for Flávio Bolsonaro, according to Tribunal Superior Eleitoral (TSE) figures with all polling stations counted reported by O Globo. In raw votes, Lula received 64,256,232 and his opponent 59,826,041.
Lula’s widest state-level margin came in Piauí, where he won 75.88% to Flávio Bolsonaro’s 24.12%, a gap of 51.76 percentage points. Flávio Bolsonaro’s strongest result was in Roraima, where he took 72.46% against 27.54% for Lula, opening a 44.92-point lead.
O Globo reported that the five states with Lula’s largest margins were all in the Northeast: Piauí, Bahia, Maranhão, Sergipe and Pernambuco. In Bahia, the gap was 42.62 points. The re-elected president carried all nine Northeastern states and finished first in 13 states overall.
Among Flávio Bolsonaro’s five largest margins, three were in the North: Roraima, Rondônia and Acre. The list was completed by Santa Catarina and Mato Grosso. In Rondônia, according to O Globo, he won 69.61% of valid votes and led Lula by 39.22 points; in Santa Catarina, the margin was 38.84 points.
The state map was evenly split: Lula won 13 states, while Flávio Bolsonaro carried 13 states plus the Federal District. Lula swept the Northeast, won three states in the North and also Minas Gerais. Flávio Bolsonaro won all three Southern states, all three Center-West states, the Federal District, four Northern states and three states in the Southeast, according to O Globo.
The closest race was in Minas Gerais, where Lula took 50.43% and Flávio Bolsonaro 49.57%, a difference of 0.86 percentage point. The second-tightest result came in Tocantins, where Flávio Bolsonaro won 51.37% to Lula’s 48.63%, a margin of 2.74 points.
In a separate comparison published by O Globo, Flávio Bolsonaro lost votes between the first and second rounds in six states: Acre, Amapá, Roraima, Maranhão, Amazonas and Tocantins. In the other 20 states and the Federal District, his vote total increased. The largest absolute gain was in São Paulo, with 1,217,155 more votes, while the biggest absolute loss was in Acre, down 15,092 votes. In proportional terms, the sharpest drop was in Amapá, where his vote fell 6.41%.
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About this piece. Written by El Notero with AI assistance, from reporting published by the outlet cited above. El Notero did no original reporting on this story.
