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TSE final result · RS

Rio Grande do Sul presidential election results.

Jair Bolsonaro led the deciding round with 3.733.185 votes, or 56.35% of valid presidential votes in this result geography.

6.930.852second-round ballots
6.625.036valid presidential votes
305.816blank and null ballots
80.69%of registered voters participated
What this geography means

Rio Grande do Sul is one of Brazil's 27 federative units.

Candidate shares use valid presidential votes. Blank and null ballots stay visible and are included only in the all-ballot count.

Second round · 30 October 2022

The deciding result in Rio Grande do Sul.

2 sourced results
First round · 2 October 2022

All eleven candidacies in Rio Grande do Sul.

11 sourced results
Registered electorate8.589.684
Electorate accounted8.589.684
Sections counted27.201
Ballots cast6.930.852

Source: Tribunal Superior Eleitoral 2022 open-data catalog · TSE geography code RS · final historical result.

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2022 Rio Grande do Sul Brazil Presidential Results

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