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The 2026 elections in Brazil had their first round held on October 4, with Flávio Bolsonaro (PL) and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) as the main candidates for president. In São Paulo, Tarcísio de Freitas (Republicans) ran for re-election against Fernando Haddad (PT).
With just over 8 thousand inhabitants and located in the Metropolitan Region of Piracicaba, Saltinho (SP) was the city where Flávio Bolsonaro (PL) obtained the most expressive percentage performance in the state of São Paulo.
The candidate received 78.71% of the valid votes, which represented the choice of 4,465 of the 5,860 voters who went to the polls this Sunday (4).
Current president Lula (PT) received 15.25% of the preference, which totaled 865 votes.
Flávio Bolsonaro's percentage result in the 1st round was higher than that obtained by his father in 2022.
Discover the city HERE.
Abstention in the 1st round of the 2026 elections, this Sunday (4), in Piracicaba (SP) and in six other cities in the region exceeded the country's rate, which was 21.08%.
Of the 958,295 voters eligible to vote in the 18 cities in the g1 Piracicaba coverage area, 195,663 stopped going to the polls. The abstention rate in the region was 20.41%.
The highest rate among cities was São Pedro (SP), with 25.36%. The lowest was in Rafard (SP), with 16.63%.
See the indexes by city HERE.
Senator Flávio Bolsonaro (PL) received the most votes in all 18 cities in the Piracicaba region (SP) in the first round of the 2026 Elections. In national terms, he will face President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) in the second round, scheduled for the 25th.
In the dispute for the Government of São Paulo, the re-elected candidate, Tarcísio de Freitas (Republicans), beat Fernando Haddad (PT) in all cities.
See HERE how the disputes went in each city.
Limeira (SP) – The electoral judge of Zone 66, Gabriel Baldi de Carvalho, stated that “it was a super peaceful election” in the first round, without any complications.
According to him, there was no problem with data transmission and, even with the rain in the late afternoon, the Electoral Court did not record any errors. “We were worried that there might be an interruption in the power supply,” he said, adding that the ballot boxes have their own battery. The judge also stated that no electoral crimes came to his attention today.
Regarding the second round, he said that the team is awaiting the results of the investigation and that, “if there is a second round”, preparation begins on the 25th.
Limeira - With the end of voting, the media from the Portal school ballot boxes were delivered to the electoral registry late this Sunday afternoon (4).
At the end of voting, the ballot box prints the Ballot Ballot and records the result data on a medium.
From there, the information goes to the totalization systems through a network used exclusively by the Electoral Court.
The ballot box is isolated, there is no internet, no Wi-Fi, no Bluetooth.
AI outlook — possibilities, not facts
Flávio Bolsonaro will face Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the second round of the 2026 presidential elections
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Tarcísio de Freitas will be re-elected governor of São Paulo
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She was the third most voted candidate in the state for the position of federal deputy, with the municipality of Maranhão as the place where she obtained the most votes, with 179,351. The report explains that seats in the Chamber of Deputies are distributed using a proportional system, based on the total votes of each party or federation, and not just on the individual votes of candidates.

With 99.99% of the ballots counted, Flávio Bolsonaro obtained 56.1 million votes (47.03%), while Lula had 53.8 million (45.16%). The highest levels of support for Bolsonaro occurred in Roraima, Rondônia, Santa Catarina, Mato Grosso and Acre, while Lula led in Piauí, Bahia, Maranhão, Pernambuco and Sergipe.

Filipe Barros (PL), elected senator for Paraná at the age of 35, will be the youngest in the country since 1903 when he takes office in February 2027. Júlio César de Carvalho Lima (PSD), at 78 years old, is the oldest senator elected. Among the governors, Lucas Ribeiro (PP), aged 37, is the youngest in Paraíba, and Jorginho Mello (PL), aged 70, re-elected in Santa Catarina, is the oldest.

After losing the election for the government of Bahia, ACM Neto (União Brasil) criticized the campaign of current governor Jerônimo Rodrigues (PT) as 'low level', citing personal attacks and lies. Meanwhile, candidate Elielson de Jesus Santos (Percata) was arrested on suspicion of 'exiting the poll' in Laje, and a 52-year-old man was arrested in Aramari for disrespecting poll workers.

White and null votes in the 2026 elections represented 4.51% of the total, with 1.69% white and 2.82% null, maintaining a similar level to that of 2022 and well below the 18.7% recorded in 1998, confirming the downward trend in the last two presidential elections.

US President Donald Trump confused Brazil with India when commenting on the speed of the electoral count on social media, taking advantage of the moment to criticize the American voting system and raise suspicions without evidence.