{"id":83553,"date":"2026-10-03T14:50:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T14:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/83553"},"modified":"2026-10-03T14:50:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T14:50:22","slug":"lulas-lead-over-bolsonaro-narrows-ahead-of-brazil-vote-cnt-mda-poll-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/83553","title":{"rendered":"Lula&#8217;s lead over Bolsonaro narrows ahead of Brazil vote, CNT\/MDA poll shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:16px;line-height:1.6\">\n<p><strong>SAO PAULO: Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva\u2019s lead over Senator Flavio Bolsonaro narrowed \u200bahead of Sunday\u2019s first-round vote, a CNT\/MDA \u200cpoll showed on Saturday, while also pointing to a tighter race in a likely runoff.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>In a first-round scenario, \u200bLula would receive 43.1% of voter support, \u200bfollowed by Bolsonaro (38%), Augusto Cury (3.2%), Ronaldo Caiado (3%) \u2060and Renan Santos (1.5%), according to the poll.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>A September 15 \u200bpoll had Lula at 40.5%, Bolsonaro at 30.4%, \u200bCury at 6%, Caiado at 3% and Santos at 2.7%<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Considering only projected valid votes, which exclude people telling the \u200bpollster they would leave their ballots blank or \u200bvoid somehow, Lula reached 47.8% voter support against Bolsonaro\u2019s 42.1%<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>If \u200cno \u2060candidate wins more than 50% of valid votes in the Sunday first round, the two frontrunners advance to a runoff on October 25<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>In a \u200blikely runoff, \u200bLula would \u2060receive 47.3% of voter support, compared with 43.1% for the eldest son of \u200bformer President Jair Bolsonaro, the poll \u200bsaid<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>In \u2060the previous survey, Lula led Senator Bolsonaro by 47.3% to 40% in the runoff<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>MDA surveyed 2,007 people \u2060from \u200bSeptember 30 to October 2, \u200bwith a margin of error of 2.2 percentage points<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/arynews.tv\/lulas-lead-over-bolsonaro-narrows-ahead-of-brazil-vote-cnt-mda-poll-shows\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAO PAULO: Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva\u2019s lead over Senator Flavio Bolsonaro narrowed \u200bahead of Sunday\u2019s first-round vote, a CNT\/MDA \u200cpoll showed on Saturday, while also pointing to a tighter race in a likely runoff. 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