Brazil Presidential election 2018 — Results
First round: October 7, 2018
Runoff: October 28, 2018
- Jair Bolsonaro: 55.13%
- Fernando Haddad: 44.87%
Turnout: 78.70%
About this election
The voting system
Brazil's president and vice-president are elected as a joint ticket by the two-round system. A candidate winning more than half of the valid votes (excluding blanks and spoilt ballots) in the first round is elected outright; otherwise the top two advance to a run-off three weeks later. Voting is compulsory for literate citizens aged 18 to 70 and is conducted entirely on electronic voting machines, which deliver a near-complete national count within hours. The president serves a four-year term and may be re-elected once consecutively. The same day, voters also choose the Chamber of Deputies, a third (or two-thirds) of the Senate, and state governors and assemblies.
Compiled and reviewed from official results by ElectioMap. See our data methodology.
In numbers
- 10.26 points separated Jair Bolsonaro from Fernando Haddad — 10,756,941 votes.
- Turnout of 78.70% is the lowest of the 2 presidential elections covered here since 2018.
Calculated from the official figures on this page and from the other elections of this type in our archive.
Understanding this election
- How We Check an Election Figure — the checks every number passes before publication
- How Live Election Data Is Collected and Verified — from ballot box to published figure
- Why Turnout Figures Disagree — why two sources publish different turnout for one election