Abstention and Invalid Votes Have Record Drop in the 2nd Round - 25/10/2026

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With 99.90% of the votes cast there were 30,459,886 abstentions, against 33,469,244 in the first ballot.

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Second round attracted about 3 million people who did not vote in the first stage; total absent was 30.4 million

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The reduction of abstention and of the white and null votes marked the second round of the presidential election of 2026 and became one of the important factors for the victory of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) over Flávio Bolsonaro (PL). With the clearance in 96.77% of the ballots, the number of valid votes reached 123.9 million, while the whites represented 1.12% and the null ones, 2.12% of the total. The abstention was 19.19%. The abstention …

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Brasília, Oct 25 (Prensa Latina) Brazil recorded today in the second round of the presidential elections the biggest reduction in abstention between rounds since the re-democratization, according to data from the Superior Electoral Tribunal. The post Brasil records historical decline of abstention first appeared on Noticias Prensa Latina.

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The abstention rate in the second round of the elections fell to 19.22%. The percentage corresponds to 30.5 million people who were not voting this Sunday, 25. This is the lowest level of abstention since the 2006 lawsuit, when the rate was 18.99%. In the first round, about 33.4 million Brazilians left...