BRASILIA — Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court called Sunday’s presidential runoff for President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva shortly after 9 p.m. Brasília time, Al Jazeera reported². Africanews and Euronews later cited court figures of 51.8 percent of valid votes to 48.2 percent for Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, a margin of about 4.4 million votes^3,4.

Al Jazeera put Lula at more than 51 percent and more than 64 million ballots, and Bolsonaro at 48 percent, or more than 59 million, with a gap of more than 4 million votes and counting still unfinished².

Lula, of the Workers’ Party, won after placing second in the first round^2,3. Al Jazeera said no other politician in modern Brazilian history had lost a presidential first round and then won the runoff².

Al Jazeera said the vote was marked by allegations of voter suppression after reports that public transport in some areas had been suspended, and that the Supreme Court extended voting by two hours².

Bolsonaro refused to concede and said he would seek to annul the result^2,3. “It is impossible to acknowledge the result,” Bolsonaro said, accusing the court of having “changed the rules of the game mid-game”².

Lula, speaking after the call, said he would work with a Congress he did not choose and thanked voters who cast ballots “to secure democracy in the country”².

Thousands celebrated on São Paulo’s Paulista Avenue, with similar scenes in Rio de Janeiro and other cities into Monday, Africanews and Euronews reported^3,4.

What courts will do with any annulment request, how many stations stayed open past the original close, and a full official tally were not settled in the accounts reviewed^2,3.