(5 Oct 2014) Brazil's presidential election has been forced into a runoff vote because no single candidate won a majority of the vote.
With 92 percent of the vote counted, President Dilma Rousseff has won 41 percent of the first-round vote on Sunday, according to results from Brazil's top electoral court, which oversees elections.
She will face Aecio Neves of the main opposition party, the Social Democrats, who had 34 percent of the vote.
There aren't enough uncounted votes for any other challenger to surpass either Rousseff or Neves.
Neves staged a strong comeback to make it to the second round.
He overtook former Environment Minister Marina Silva, who just four weeks ago held a double-digit lead over him and looked like she might win the presidency.
With soldiers and military police visible on the streets of Rio de Janeiro, one polling station official, Juliana Demessio, said that voting had been calm with no reported problems.
Rousseff and Neves will go through to a second round to be held on October 26.
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