Labour won over half the vote then, outpolling the Tories by 17 percentage points.

ECONOMIST: Local elections

Only in two of Brazil's 27 states does Mr da Silva stand a chance of outpolling Mr Cardoso: in Rio de Janeiro and Rio Grande do Sul, the historical homes of trabalhismo (labourism), the ideology built by Getulio Vargas, Brazil's modernising mid-century dictator.

ECONOMIST: Brazil