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Votes were being counted Sunday evening in Brazil’s high-stakes presidential election, where leftist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva aimed to beat far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro and retake the presidency.
Polls closed at 4 p.m. ET Sunday in the race being watched around the world. With 2% of the totals in at 5 p.m. ET, Bolsonaro was in the lead with 48.7% of the vote against Lula’s 41.6%.
Pollsters have predicted Lula, who was Brazil’s president from 2003 to 2010, will beat Bolsonaro by around 10%.
