
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, October 4, 1994                   TAG: 9410050028
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A8   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: 
DATELINE: RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL                                 LENGTH: Short

MODERATE WINS BRAZIL ELECTION

The man who tamed Brazil's inflation won a lopsided presidential race Monday, according to exit polls, in the country's biggest national election ever.

Former finance minister Fernando Henrique Cardoso received 45 percent of the vote, according to a poll by the Gallup Institute. His closest rival, socialist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, received 25 percent.

The other six candidates polled 17 percent, while 12 percent of voters cast blank or null ballots, according to the Estado de Sao Paulo newspaper, which commissioned the Gallup survey.

Three other exit polls reported similar results, giving Cardoso 46 percent or 47 percent.

- Associated Press

by CNB