Americas / Brazil · Politics

Brazil presidential runoff: first polls show tight race between Lula and Bolsonaro

Rank
Ran: 44h
Updated: 3h ago
Closed
Outlets: 21
Regions: 3
Countries: 11
Languages: 4

Anadolu Agency Turkey · English 8 Oct, 22:26 UTC

The earliest of 2 English reports

Read it also in Español (13) · +2 languages

Read at Anadolu Agency

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: G1, 8 Oct, 03:00 UTC.
Second country: Mexico, with El Sol de México.
Second region: Middle East, with Anadolu Agency.
Fastest hour: +4 outlets from 8 Oct, 22:03 UTC.
Last article: 21 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 11 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

81%14%

Americas 17 outlets · 8 countries · 81%
Europe 3 outlets · 2 countries · 14%
Middle East 1 outlet · 1 country · 5%

First movers

G1 8 Oct, 03:00 UTC
Poder360 +7h 30m
CNN Brasil +7h 32m
Metrópoles +11h 39m
Estadão +12h 34m

Last to join

BioBioChile 10 Oct, 00:00 UTC
La República (PE) 9 Oct, 20:52 UTC
Perfil 9 Oct, 14:08 UTC
Semana 9 Oct, 11:12 UTC
Bloomberg 9 Oct, 10:00 UTC

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: Flávio Bolsonaro defeats Lula in Brazil first round election, 5 to 6 Oct 2026, 10 outlets.

The figures

Coverage: 21 outlets in 11 countries, across 3 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 21 outlets, 1 state-owned, 20 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Americas 8: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, United States, Uruguay. Europe 2: Cyprus, Spain. Middle East 1: Turkey. 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: Greek, English, Spanish, Portuguese.
Timeline: Earliest article G1, 8 Oct 2026, 03:00 UTC. First seen 8 Oct 2026, 03:10 UTC. Last seen 10 Oct 2026, 00:00 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: 0.65, as of now. 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 Flávio Bolsonaro defeats Lula in Brazil first round election. Merged from 3 stories First poll shows Flavio Bolsonaro leading Lula in Brazil runoff; Datafolha releases first runoff presidential poll Thursday; Brazilian poll shows Lula's election chances declining sharply. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box. A story merged from several was grouped from stories about the same event; each keeps its own headline and page, and the whole story counts every outlet and country once.
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

8 Oct 2026 159 4.89 10 5 10 5 4.6

9 Oct 2026 111 6.08 20 11 13 7 4.6

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How this was measured

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Started 8 Oct, 03:10 UTC · Updated 10 Oct, 00:00 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Merged from 3 stories

Covered by 21 outlets

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Day	Rank	Score	Outlets	Countries	24h outlets	24h countries	Method
8 Oct 2026	159	4.89	10	5	10	5	4.6
9 Oct 2026	111	6.08	20	11	13	7	4.6