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Bolsonaro leads Lula in Brazil's presidential election early results

Rank
Ran
22h
Updated
23h ago
Final
Outlets
31
Regions
4
Countries
18
Languages
10

+8

Where it travelled

The 18 countries whose press covered it; when each joined is no longer held. Open the live map

The regions

42%45%

  • Africa 1 outlet · 1 country · 3%
  • Americas 13 outlets · 6 countries · 42%
  • Europe 14 outlets · 8 countries · 45%
  • Middle East 3 outlets · 3 countries · 10%

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: Lula extends lead over Flávio Bolsonaro in 2026 Brazil election poll, 1 to 3 Oct 2026, 3 outlets.

The figures

Coverage
31 outlets in 18 countries, across 4 regions. The article links are no longer held: they lasted a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 31 outlets, 2 state-owned, 1 public-service, 28 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Africa 1: Senegal. Americas 6: Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Peru. Europe 8: Denmark, France, Greece, Italy, Norway, Russia, Serbia, Spain. Middle East 3: Saudi Arabia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
Arabic, Danish, Greek, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian.
Timeline
Earliest article La Tercera, 4 Oct 2026, 00:34 UTC. First seen 4 Oct 2026, 00:50 UTC. Last seen 4 Oct 2026, 23:27 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region Americas, Brazil. Topic Politics. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
21.25, at the end of the last day measured. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain
Continues Lula extends lead over Flávio Bolsonaro in 2026 Brazil election poll. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
4 Oct 2026 12 21.25 31 18 31 18 4.1

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How this was measured

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Started 4 Oct, 00:50 UTC · Updated 23:27 UTC

Covered by 31 outlets

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Africa 1 outlet

  • Seneweb Senegal

Americas 13 outlets

  • BioBioChile Chile
  • Diario Extra Costa Rica
  • El Comercio Peru
  • El Espectador Colombia
  • El Sol de México Mexico
  • Exitosa Peru
  • Infobae Argentina
  • La Nación (AR) Argentina
  • La Nación (CR) Costa Rica
  • La Tercera Chile
  • Perfil Argentina
  • Reforma Mexico
  • RPP Peru

Europe 14 outlets

  • ABC Spain
  • ANSA Italy
  • Berlingske Denmark
  • Blic Serbia
  • Dagbladet Norway
  • El Mundo Spain
  • elDiario.es Spain
  • Kommersant Russia
  • La Repubblica Italy
  • Le Figaro France
  • Proto Thema Greece
  • RTS Serbia
  • TASS Russia
  • To Vima Greece

Middle East 3 outlets

  • Anadolu Agency Turkey
  • Arab News Saudi Arabia
  • Sky News Arabia United Arab Emirates

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