Lula da Silva narrowly beats Jair Bolsonaro to win Brazil electionThe count was close - veteran leftist Mr da Silva polled 50.8% of votes, compared with 49.2% for Mr Bolsonaro, the far-right incumbent.His victory marks the first time since Brazil's 1985 return to democracy that the sitting president has failed to win reelection.Read more:Mayhem and elation in Sao Paulo but uniting Brazil will be hard - Stuart RamsayMayhem and elation in Sao Paulo but uniting Brazil will be hard - Stuart Ramsay'Time of hope and future'Brazil's Supreme Electoral Court's count showed it was an extremely close contest - Mr da Silva polled 50.9% of votes compared with 49.1% for Mr Bolsonaro, with all of the voting machines counted.The election, in the world's fourth-largest democracy, served as a referendum on two starkly different - and vehemently opposed - visions for Brazil's future.Mr Bolsonaro vowed to consolidate a sharp rightward turn in Brazilian politics after a presidency that witnessed one of the world's deadliest outbreaks of COVID-19 and widespread deforestation in the Amazon basin."