Brazil election polls show Bolsonaro with 27%, Haddad with 21%

This Wednesday (Sep. 26) Pollster Ibope released a new survey on Brazil’s presidential race, with far-right contender Jair Bolsonaro, of the Liberal Social Party (PSL) had 27 percent of intended votes, and leftist Fernando Haddad, of the Workers’ Party (PT), 21 percent.

Third comes socialist candidate Ciro Gomes, of the Democratic Labor Party (PDT), with 12 percent, followed by former São Paulo Governor Geraldo Alckmin, of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB), named by eight percent of respondents. Hopeful Marina Silva, of the environmentalist Rede party, garnered six percent of intended votes, and other candidates amassed three percent or less.

Candidate Bolsonaro – Jair Bolsonaro / Social Media / All rights reserved.

Eleven percent of respondents said they were going to cast a blank or null ballot, and seven percent did not answer or did not know who they were going to vote. The survey was commissioned by the National Confederation of Industry, and heard 2 thousand electors across 126 municipalities from September 22 through 24.

Rejection

The polls also asked Brazilian voters who they would not vote for “under any circumstances.” Jair Bolsonaro was reported with 44 percent, and Fernando Haddad and Marina Silva with 27 percent. Nineteen percent of interviewees would not vote for Geraldo Alckmin.

Two percent said they could vote in just about any candidate, and seven percent did not answer or did not know whom they would reject.