RIO DE JANEIRO—Brazil’s top two presidential candidates will face each other in a runoff vote after neither got enough support to win outright Sunday in an election to decide if the country returns a leftist to the helm of the world’s fourth-largest democracy or keeps the conservative incumbent in office. With 99.5 percent of the…

Brazil’s presidential election is headed for a runoff vote later this month after neither of the nation’s top two candidates managed to secure enough support on Sunday to claim an outright victory. Brazil’s election authority announced on Sunday that a second round of voting was a mathematical certainty. While former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva,…

RIO DE JANEIRO—With 52 percent of the votes counted, conservative incumbent Jair Bolsonaro is slightly leading former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Brazil’s presidential election. Bolsonaro has 46.3 percent support compared to 44.9 percent for da Silva of the leftist Workers’ Party. Six other candidates share the remaining votes in Sunday’s election. It…

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…