Americas / Brazil · Politics

Brazil election heads to runoff between Lula and Bolsonaro

Rank
Running: 30h
Updated: 45m ago
Momentum: -11%
Outlets: 46
Regions: 5
Countries: 29
Languages: 12

+18

France 24 France · English 5 Oct, 18:44 UTC

The earliest of 12 English reports

Read it also in Español (18) · +10 languages

Read at France 24

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Metrópoles, 5 Oct, 00:29 UTC.
Second country: Peru, with El Comercio.
Second region: Europe, with El País.
Fastest hour: +6 outlets from 5 Oct, 19:41 UTC.
Now: 46 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 29 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. One international outlet publishes from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

48%26%

Africa 2 outlets · 1 country · 4%
Americas 22 outlets · 12 countries · 48%
Asia-Pacific 5 outlets · 5 countries · 11%
Europe 12 outlets · 6 countries · 26%
Middle East 4 outlets · 4 countries · 9%
International 1 outlet · 2%

First movers

Metrópoles 5 Oct, 00:29 UTC
El Comercio +3h 49m
Estadão +3h 53m
El Observador (CR) +5h 37m
La Jornada +8h 1m

Latest arrivals

Infobae 6 Oct, 06:27 UTC
La Nación (AR) 6 Oct, 06:11 UTC
El País (UY) 6 Oct, 05:50 UTC
ORF 6 Oct, 05:27 UTC
Khabar Online 6 Oct, 04:35 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 46 outlets in 29 countries, across 5 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 46 outlets, 3 state-owned, 3 public-service, 40 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 1: Nigeria. Americas 12: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Jamaica, Mexico, Peru, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela. Asia-Pacific 5: China, India, Japan, Malaysia, Vietnam. Europe 6: Austria, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Spain. Middle East 4: Iran, Lebanon, Qatar, Turkey. International 1: the outlets that publish from no single country, counted as one. 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, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, Turkish, Vietnamese.
Timeline: Earliest article Metrópoles, 5 Oct 2026, 00:29 UTC. First seen 5 Oct 2026, 00:40 UTC. Last seen 6 Oct 2026, 06:27 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: 12.78, 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: Merged from 4 stories Brazil presidential runoff between Lula and Bolsonaro; Right-wing surge dominates Brazil elections; Flávio Bolsonaro's stronger election performance than his father in Brazil; Right-wing surge dominates Brazil elections, threatening Lula. 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

5 Oct 2026 35 14.54 22 17 22 17 4.1

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How this was measured

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Started 5 Oct, 00:40 UTC · Updated 6 Oct, 06:27 UTC

Merged from 4 stories

Brazil presidential runoff between Lula and Bolsonaro29 outlets · 22 countries · started 5 Oct, 08:30 UTC
Right-wing surge dominates Brazil elections3 outlets · 1 country · started 5 Oct, 04:22 UTC
Flávio Bolsonaro's stronger election performance than his father in Brazil13 outlets · 11 countries · started 5 Oct, 04:18 UTC
Right-wing surge dominates Brazil elections, threatening Lula8 outlets · 7 countries · started 5 Oct, 00:29 UTC

Covered by 46 outlets

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Merged from 4 stories

Covered by 46 outlets

Africa 2 outlets

Americas 22 outlets

Asia-Pacific 5 outlets

Europe 12 outlets

Middle East 4 outlets

International 1 outlet