Voting is drawing to a close in Brazil after one of the most bitterly-contested and tightest presidential elections.
Left-leaning
President Dilma Rousseff faced centrist Aecio Neves of the Brazilian Social Democracy
Party (PSDB) in the second round run-off.
Both
candidates have tried to convince voters they can lift more Brazilians out of
poverty and kick-start Latin America's largest economy.
Results
are expected after 22:00 GMT.
More
than 140 million Brazilians have been voting across three time zones.
Voting
ended at 17:00 local time (19:00 GMT) in eight states, including Rio de Janeiro
and Sao Paulo, and in the federal district of Brasilia. Polls closed in the
northeast and central states an hour later.
The
last ballots will be cast in the western state of Acre at 20:00 (22:00 GMT).
Battle for middle
class
On
Saturday, opinion polls gave President Rousseff a slight lead over Mr Neves.
Correspondents
say the middle class vote in Brazil's industrial southeast will be crucial.
Ms
Rousseff voted early in the southern city of Porto Alegre, where she lived and
developed her political career in the 1990s. Mr Neves cast his ballot in the
city of Belo Horizonte, where he served a
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