4 October 2026 (2026-10-04) (first round) 25 October 2026 (2026-10-25) (second round, if necessary)
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Presidential election
Opinion polls
Incumbent President
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
PT
Chamber of Deputies
All 513 seats in the Chamber of Deputies 257 seats needed for a majority
Party
Leader
Current seats
PL
Altineu Côrtes
95
FE Brasil
Odair Cunha
80
UNIÃO
Elmar Nascimento
58
PP
Luiz Teixeira Jr.
50
MDB
Isnaldo Bulhões Jr.
44
PSD
Antonio Brito
44
Republicanos
Hugo Motta
43
PDT
Afonso Motta
18
PSDB–Cidadania
Adolfo Viana
17
PSB
Gervásio Maia
14
PSOL-REDE
Erika Hilton
14
PODE
Romero Rodrigues Veiga
15
Avante
Luis Tibé
7
PRD
Frederico Escaleira
5
Solidarity
Aureo Ribeiro
5
NOVO
Adriana Ventura
3
Federal Senate
54 of the 81 seats in the Federal Senate 41 seats needed for a majority
Party
Leader
Current seats
PSD
Otto Alencar
15
PL
Carlos Portinho
13
MDB
Eduardo Braga
11
PT
Beto Faro
8
UNIÃO
Efraim Filho
7
PODE
Rodrigo Cunha
7
PP
Tereza Cristina
6
PSB
Jorge Kajuru
4
Republicanos
Mecias de Jesus
4
PDT
Ana Paula Lobato
3
PSDB
Plínio Valério
1
NOVO
Eduardo Girão
1
Independent
Randolfe Rodrigues
1
General elections will be held in Brazil on 4 October 2026 to elect the president, vice president, members of the National Congress, the governors, vice governors, and legislative assemblies of all federative units, and the district council of Fernando de Noronha. If no candidate for president—or for governor in some states—received more than half of the valid votes in the first round, a runoff election for these offices will be held on 31 October.
Incumbent left-wing president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of the Workers' Party is eligible for a fourth term. However, he has stated that he will not seek re-election.[1]
Having unsuccessfully run for president in 1989, 1994, and 1998, Lula was elected in 2002 and re-elected in 2006. He was then succeeded by his chief of staff, Dilma Rousseff, who was elected in 2010 and re-elected in 2014. Lula attempted to run for the presidency for a third non-consecutive term in 2018, but his candidacy was denied by the Superior Electoral Court due to his previous conviction on corruption charges in 2017. A series of court rulings led to his release from prison in 2019, followed by the annulment of his conviction and restoration of his political rights by 2021. For his vice presidential candidate in the 2022 election, Lula selected Geraldo Alckmin, who had been a presidential candidate of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party in 2006 (facing Lula in the second round) and 2018 but changed his affiliation to the Brazilian Socialist Party in 2022.
Lula won the 2022 election by the closest margin in Brazilian history, defeating incumbent right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro by 1.9% (or 2,139,645 votes). Lula, re-elected in 2022, became the first person to secure a third presidential term, receiving the highest number of votes in a Brazilian election. At the same time, Bolsonaro, elected in 2018, became the first incumbent president to lose a bid for a second term since a 1997 constitutional amendment allowing consecutive re-election. In response to his loss, some Bolsonaro supporters demanded a military coup to prevent Lula's inauguration, but failed to gather sufficient support. Before Lula's inauguration, Bolsonaro left the country for the United States and was later, controversially, barred from running for a second term before 2030.[2]
^Malleret, Constance (25 October 2022). "Lula repeats that he will not seek re-election in event of victory". The Brazilian Report. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
^"Eight-year election ban for Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro". BBC News. 30 June 2023.
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