MOSCOW, October 6 (RIA Novosti) - Incumbent president Dilma Rousseff and Social Democracy Party candidate Aecio Neves have taken the lead in the Brazil's presidential election with 40,37 and 35 percent of the votes respectively, Brazil's Superior Electoral Court informed on its website.
Some 83 percent of votes have been counted so far. Rousseff and Neves are followed by Socialist Party candidate Marina Silva, who has received 21 percent of the votes, while the other candidates have received less than 2 percent of votes each.
The second round of elections is scheduled for October 26.
