Brazil's Leftist Voters Split in Fresh Poll on Presidential Race
- Workers’ Party candidate Haddad gets 16%, Gomes gets 13%
- First-round vote set for Oct. 7, likely runoff on Oct. 28
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Two leftist candidates, Fernando Haddad and Ciro Gomes, are vying for second place in a highly splintered field of contenders for Brazil’s presidency, according to the latest opinion poll.
Haddad, the Workers’ Party candidate, was backed by 16 percent of respondents in the Datafolha survey published early on Thursday, compared with 13 percent in the Sept. 14 poll and only 4 percent in August. Gomes, a former governor of the state of Ceara, garnered 13 percent, a statistical tie between the two of them. Former Army captain Jair Bolsonaro leads the race with 28 percent, edging up from 26 percent.