Overnight News Digest: Brazil elections likely going to a runoff

Brazil votes in tense election: Bolsonaro vs Lula

Al Jazeera

Brazil’s most polarised election in decades looks to be heading into a deciding vote in four weeks time with left-wing challenger Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva having the edge over right-wing incumbent Jair Bolsonaro.

With 90.3 percent percent of voting machines counted, Lula had 47.1 percent of valid votes, compared with 44.3 percent for Bolsonaro, the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) reported on its website.

If no candidate wins more than half the votes, excluding blank and spoiled ballots, the two will face off in a second-round vote in four weeks.

There were long queues at polling stations that closed at 5pm (20:00 GMT).

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