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Flávio Bolsonaro Surpasses Father's 2018 and 2022 Vote Totals
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News18•06-10-2026, 18:00
Flávio Bolsonaro Surpasses Father's 2018 and 2022 Vote Totals
- •Liberal Party candidate Flávio Bolsonaro secured millions more votes nationwide than his father, former President Jair Bolsonaro, did in the 2018 and 2022 elections.
- •Significant gains were reported in Brazil's Northeast, where Flávio reduced the gap in traditional Workers' Party strongholds while President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva saw declines in several states.
- •Flávio also outperformed his father in key Southeastern states like São Paulo, backed by Governor Tarcísio de Freitas, and flipped Minas Gerais.
- •Southern states that historically supported Jair Bolsonaro maintained strong backing for his son, with notable vote increases in Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina.
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Liberal Party presidential candidate and Senator Flávio Bolsonaro secured a larger vote tally nationwide than his father, former President Jair Bolsonaro, recorded in both the 2018 and 2022 presidential elections.
Flávio Bolsonaro significantly reduced the gap in several northeastern states traditionally considered PT strongholds. In Ceará, he secured 31.32 percent of the valid votes and added nearly 370,000 votes, while in Piauí he crossed the 500,000 mark.
In São Paulo, backed by Governor Tarcísio de Freitas, Flávio surpassed his father's previous vote totals while Lula lost nearly one million votes. In Minas Gerais, where Lula had defeated Jair Bolsonaro by about 600,000 votes in 2022, Flávio won the state by a similar margin.
