Flávio Bolsonaro wins the second round of the 2026 Brazilian presidential election by a margin of 8% to 12%.
Brazil's presidential runoff is set for late October 2026. This market tracks whether Flávio Bolsonaro wins by an 8–12% valid vote margin.
Across 6 frontier models answering independently, the panel has all but ruled it out: the median is 4%.
They broadly agree, 5 points between GPT at 7% and Gemini at 2%.
Traders risking real money on Polymarket land in the same place, at 6%.
Nothing is settled until 26 Oct 2026, when the outcome is checked against sources and every number above gets a permanent score.
- AI edge
- -2 pts
- Moved this week
- -4 pts
- Since we asked
- -6 pts
- Volume
- $1.2M
The panel and the market agree almost exactly — 4% against 6%.
What each one said
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GPTOpenAI
It requires both a Bolsonaro runoff victory and a relatively narrow 54–46 to 56–44 valid-vote result.
- Flávio must first qualify for the October 25 runoff, then beat his opponent; both remain major contingencies 11 days out.
- Brazil’s recent presidential runoffs were 51–49 in 2022, 55–45 in 2018, 52–48 in 2014, and 56–44 in 2010.
- A late polling shift showing Flávio leading a likely runoff opponent by roughly 8–12 points would raise this sharply.
7% -
GrokxAI
Flávio must already be in the Oct 25 runoff and TSE must certify an 8–12 pt valid-vote gap.
- Oct 4 first round is over; only the two remaining names can produce this result.
- Brazilian runoff polls 11 days out miss by 2–4 pts; an 8–12 window is narrow.
- 8–12 pt gaps occurred in 2 of last 6 runoffs (2010, 2018); Flávio’s weaker brand vs Jair makes a blowout less likely.
7% -
ClaudeAnthropic
Requires Flávio to even reach and win the runoff, then by a specific 8-12% margin—a narrow compound condition.
- Flávio Bolsonaro isn't a confirmed frontrunner; Jair-aligned candidates face eligibility and polling uncertainty, so reaching round two is itself uncertain.
- Even conditional on a runoff win, margins are scattered across many possible bands, so any single 4-point window is a minority outcome.
- Brazilian runoffs have historically varied widely (Lula-Bolsonaro 2022 was ~1.8%), showing narrow margins are more common than 8-12% ones.
4% -
QwenAlibaba
Requires Flávio to be the Bolsonaro candidate, win, and land in a narrow 4-point margin band—three independent hurdles.
- Flávio Bolsonaro was never the consensus right-wing candidate; Tarcísio de Freitas and others competed for that lane, making his presence in the runoff uncertain.
- Even if he is in the runoff and winning, a 4-point-wide margin band (8–12%) captures roughly 15–20% of plausible victory margins based on historical Brazilian runoff…
- With 11 days to go, polls would be tight enough to narrow the margin estimate, but the compound probability of candidacy × victory × specific band remains very low.
4% -
DeepSeekDeepSeek
Flávio needs an 8–12% runoff blowout, but every poll shows a tight Lula–Flávio race.
- Runoff polls through October 2026 show margins of 2–6 points, far short of the 8–12% band this market needs.
- Brazilian runoffs historically tighten, not widen; no post-1994 runoff produced a double-digit margin for a challenger.
- Lula retains the PT machine and Northeast base, capping any Flávio landslide; only a Lula health collapse or scandal could shift it.
3% -
GeminiGoogle
Flávio is neither the right's favored standard-bearer nor likely to blow out an opponent in hyper-polarized Brazil.
- Tarcísio de Freitas and Michelle Bolsonaro consistently poll far ahead of Flávio as Jair Bolsonaro's potential political heirs.
- Brazilian runoffs are notoriously tight; 2022 was decided by 1.8%, making an 8-12% blowout structurally improbable.
- A formal endorsement by Jair Bolsonaro elevating Flávio over all rivals would raise his odds, but a huge margin remains remote.
2%
6 of 6 models answered · 5 points between the highest and lowest. None was shown the market price.
Resolution criteria
The second round of the presidential election is scheduled to take place in Brazil on October 25, 2026. This market will resolve according to the margin of victory between the top two candidates in the second round of the next Brazil Presidential Election. For the purpose of this market, the “margin of victory” is defined as the absolute difference between the percentages of valid votes received by the first- and second-place candidates. Percentages of the valid votes received by each candidate will be determined by dividing the total number of valid votes each of the top two candidates receives by the sum of all valid votes cast in the election. If the reported value falls exactly between two brackets, then this market will resolve to the higher range bracket. If a candidate other than Flávio Bolsonaro or Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva receives the most valid votes in the second round, or if the top two candidates receive exactly the same number of valid votes, this market will resolve to "Other". This market will resolve based on the official vote count once the vote count has been made official. If a recount is initiated before the vote total has been made official, the market
Question sourced from Polymarket on 14 Oct 2026. Forecast by google/gemini-3.8-flash, anthropic/claude-sonnet-5, openai/gpt-5.6-terra, x-ai/grok-4.6, deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash, qwen/qwen3.8-max-0902 via OpenRouter.