Since Brazil adopted a two-round system in 1989, no one has won the presidency after finishing second in the first round. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva broke that rule on Sunday: he defeated Flávio Bolsonaro with 51.8% of valid votes to 48.2%. His lead — more than four million votes — is roughly double the margin in 2022, when he beat Jair Bolsonaro by just 1.8 percentage points.

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