RIO DE JANEIRO—Brazil’s top two presidential candidates were neck-and-neck late Sunday in an election that could determine if the country returns a leftist to the helm of the world’s fourth-largest democracy or keeps the conservative incumbent in office for another four years.
The race pits incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro against his political rival, leftist former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. There are nine other candidates, but their support pales to that for Bolsonaro and da Silva.
With 91.6 percent of votes counted, da Silva had 47.3 percent, ahead of Bolsonaro with 44.2 percent, according to the electoral authority.
It appears increasingly likely neither of the top two candidates will receive more than 50 percent of the valid votes, which exclude spoiled and blank ballots, which would mean a second round vote will be scheduled for Oct. 30….