How to read Brazil’s official runoff election returns
The electoral court’s results portal separates national, state, municipal and electoral-zone totals.
Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court publishes second-round election returns in an official results portal. For the October 2026 presidential runoff, readers can select the national result or narrow the view to a state, municipality or electoral zone. The court also provides a separate view for governor races where a second round took place.
The dashboard reports turnout and the number of polling sections whose returns have been counted. Those fields show how much of the vote a total represents. A result displayed for a single municipality answers a different question from the nationwide figure.
The court also makes files available for download so readers can inspect the tally independently. For a comparison across regions, the portal lets readers keep the contest fixed while changing geography. The electoral court’s guide links to the dashboard and explains how to select the second round.