Iran Press/ America: Jair Bolsonaro was declared the winner by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal after 94% of the votes were counted, easily defeating his leftist ex-Sao Paulo mayor Fernando Haddad.
The electoral tribunal released early results showing Bolsonaro leading with 55.54% of votes to Haddad's 44.46%, a difference larger than the amount of votes left to be counted, CNN reported.
Speaking earlier in the day, Haddad said Brazil's democracy was "at stake" in Sunday's vote. "I believe today is a great day for the country which has arrived at a crossroads," he said.
"The laws are for everyone, this is how it will be during our constitutional and democratic government," he added.
Jubilant supporters of Brazil's president-elect Jair Bolsonaro took the streets of Rio de Janeiro on Sunday after the far-right congressman was declared the winner of the country's presidential election by a wide margin.
But while Bolsonaro's supporters were rejoicing on Sunday, opponents voiced concerns that his victory could threaten human rights and ecological preservation in the world's fourth largest democracy.
Troubled over Bolsonaro's promises to open up tracks of the Amazon rainforest to development, environmental groups warned his election would be a "profound setback."
Bolsonaro's victory caps ones of the most polarizing and violent political campaigns in Brazil's history, amid a prolonged recession, rising crime rates and widespread corruption scandals.
Jair Bolsonaro, a 63-year-old former army captain, is from the small, conservative Social Liberal Party. His provocative statements on abortion,race,migration,homosexuality have earned him the nickname" Trump of the Tropics."
Mr Bolsonaro and his wife Michelle voted in Rio
Fernando Haddad,55 year-old former Sao Paulo mayor and education minister, is the son of a family of Lebanese immigrations.
Fernando Haddad voted in São Paulo
He replaced former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, currently serving a 12-year prison sentence on corruption charges, as the presidential candidate for the Workers' Party less than a month before the first round of the election.
Former Army captain Jair Bolsonaro had won nearly half the votes in Brazil’s first-round presidential election on 7 October , marked a major shift to the right in Latin America’s largest nation fueled by voters’ anger at corruption.
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