SAO PAULO (AP) -- Eneas Carneiro, a three-time presidential candidate who was later elected to Congress with the largest number of votes ever received by a Brazilian lawmaker, died Sunday of leukemia, according to Congress' Web site. He was 68.

Carneiro first ran for president in 1989, finishing seventh. He ran for president again in 1994, getting 7 percent of the vote and coming in third. In 1998 he finished fourth.

He ran for a seat in Congress in 2002, and received nearly 1.6 million votes, outdistancing his closest competitor by more than a million votes and becoming the most-voted lawmaker in Brazil's history.

He was re-elected to Congress in 2006, this time with about 400,000 votes.