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General elections are scheduled to be held in Peru by 2026, with proposals to bring them forward to 2023 or 2024 due to the 2022–2023 Peruvian protests rejected.[1][2][3] The presidential elections will determine the president and the vice presidents, while the congressional elections will determine the composition of the Congress of Peru.

Electoral system

The President is elected using the two-round system.[4] The first round voting allows eligible voters to vote for any viable presidential candidate.[4] The top two candidates who receive a plurality of the vote proceed to the run-off election.[4] The winner of the run-off election and the presidential election is the candidate who receives a plurality of the popular vote.[4][5] However, if in the first round the candidate who is in the first place already gets more than 50% of the popular vote, that candidate will automatically win the election and a run-off election will no longer be needed.[5]

The 130 members of Congress are elected in 27 multi-member constituencies using open list proportional representation.[6] To enter Congress, parties must either cross the 5% electoral threshold at the national level, or win at least seven seats in one constituency. Seats are allocated using the D'Hondt method.[7][8]

Peru has five seats in the Andean Parliament, which are elected using a common constituency by open list proportional representation.[9]

Potential presidential candidates

Declined

Opinion polls

Main article: Opinion polling for the next Peruvian general election

Presidential election

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Notes

  1. ^ Party General Secretary Luis Galarreta has indicated that Fujimori may be preparing a run, in what was seen by the media as a possible accidental admission of her plans. Though Fujimori has denied interest in running, she did the same after her losses in 2011 and 2016 before ultimately running again.[11]

References

  1. ^ "Peru Congress opens door to early elections amid unrest". AP NEWS. 20 December 2022. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
  2. ^ Alva, Diego (30 January 2023). "Congreso aprueba reconsideración y vuelve al debate adelanto de elecciones para 2023". La Republica (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 January 2023.
  3. ^ Alva, Diego (17 June 2023). "Dina Boluarte: "El tema de adelanto de elecciones está cerrado, trabajaremos hasta julio de 2026"". La Republica (in Spanish). Retrieved 17 June 2023.
  4. ^ a b c d "Peru election race tightens as Fujimori gains, poll shows". Reuters. 7 May 2021. Archived from the original on 7 June 2021. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
  5. ^ a b "In Peru's Presidential Election, the Most Popular Choice Is No One". The New York Times. 12 April 2021. Archived from the original on 7 June 2021. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
  6. ^ Alemán, Eduardo; Ponce, Aldo F.; Sagarzazu, Iñaki (2011). "Legislative Parties in Volatile, Nonprogrammatic Party Systems: The Peruvian Case in Comparative Perspective". Latin American Politics and Society. 53 (3): 57–81. doi:10.1111/j.1548-2456.2011.00125.x. ISSN 1548-2456. S2CID 55633109.
  7. ^ Peru Archived 22 April 2021 at the Wayback Machine IFES
  8. ^ Resultados Congresales Archived 31 January 2020 at the Wayback Machine ONPE
  9. ^ "Andean Parliament". International Democracy Watch. Archived from the original on 7 June 2021. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
  10. ^ "Elecciones 2026: Rafael López Aliaga pidió a Keiko Fujimori unirse y apostar por un candidato de consenso". infobae (in European Spanish). 10 October 2022. Retrieved 21 October 2022.
  11. ^ "Keiko Fujimori postularía por cuarta vez en las próximas elecciones presidenciales, desliza Fuerza Popular". infobae (in European Spanish). 27 December 2022. Retrieved 5 January 2023.


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