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In 2022, nine state chief executives who declared themselves black were elected in the 1st round.
The result of the 1st round of the 2026 elections confirmed the victory of five governors who declared themselves black in the Superior Electoral Court (TSE). In 2022, nine state chief executives who declared themselves black were elected in the 1st round.
🔎 According to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), the black population in Brazil is made up of the sum of people who declare themselves black and brown in official censuses and surveys.

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.

In Pará, voting in the municipal elections took place this Sunday (4) with the gates of polling places closed at 5pm in Belém, while in other points voters who arrived early waited to vote. In Altamira, 200 indigenous people from the Laranjal village voted for the first time after moving ballot boxes by car and boat. The president of Podemos Ananindeua, Alex Hage, was arrested by the Federal Police. More than 17 thousand indigenous voters are eligible to vote in the state.

The coalition parties that re-elected Tarcísio de Freitas (Republicans) as governor of São Paulo obtained 65 of the 94 seats in the Legislative Assembly of São Paulo (Alesp) in the 2026 elections, guaranteeing a large majority for their second term. The PL was the largest force with 27 deputies, followed by PT with 16, and PSOL and PSD with 9 each.

Flávio Bolsonaro (PL) received 78.71% of the valid votes in Saltinho (SP), a city with just over 8 thousand inhabitants in the Metropolitan Region of Piracicaba, obtaining the best percentage performance of any candidate in São Paulo in the 1st round of the 2026 Elections. Lula (PT) had 15.25% in the same city. Abstention in the region was 20.41%, below the national average of 21.08%. Flávio Bolsonaro received the most votes in all 18 cities in the region and will face Lula in the second round on October 25th.