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SÃO PAULO—Brazilians will begin heading to the polls Sunday morning in a vote widely expected to deliver a third four-year mandate to the leftist Workers Party and catapult the first female candidate ever to the presidency of Latin America's biggest country.

Opinion polls predict that Dilma Rousseff, a former energy minister and chief of staff to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, could win a landslide first-round victory in tomorrow's voting, largely on momentum from Brazil's ongoing economic boom and the stratospheric popularity of her former boss. Although Ms. Rousseff has never before run for public office, she steamed into ...

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