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The Student List won about 2.2 million votes to about 1.7 million for the SNS, taking a projected about 138 of 250 seats, after nearly two years of protests that began with the Novi Sad canopy collapse.
The Interior Ministry put turnout at 410,000 nationwide, while unions said about 800,000 took part. The Interior Ministry reported 1,314 arrests as unions called fresh protests for 31 October and a nationwide strike for 5 November.
Israelis voted in record numbers on Tuesday in the first general election since the Hamas attacks of 7 October 2023, with turnout passing two-thirds of the electorate by early evening and neither political camp assured of the majority needed to govern.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won a historic fourth term with 51.79% of the vote in Sunday's runoff, beating Flávio Bolsonaro by more than four million votes — but the defeated candidate is seeking an annulment, and Donald Trump said the result "looked like another rigged election" without offering evidence.