Explaining Brazil
Explaining Brazil
The Brazilian Report
How to read Brazil's election polls
1 hour 5 minutes Posted Sep 23, 2026 at 9:22 pm.
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Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro are statistically tied less than two weeks before Brazil's first round, and a flood of contradictory polls is feeding claims that pollsters are rigging the race. Rafael Nishimura, director of sampling operations at the Univers...