In Peru , the people directly elect a head of state (the president ) as well as a legislature . The president is elected by the people for a five-year term. The unicameral Congress (Congreso ) has 130 members, also elected for a five-year term by proportional representation .
Peru has a multi-party system , which effectively bars one party from becoming the sole influence in a decision-making process. As such, parties must work with one another to form coalition governments .
The whole election process is held by the National Jury of Elections and the National Office of Electoral Processes . Peru has compulsory voting .[1] [2]
Latest elections
Presidential election
Leading candidate by region in the first round Leading candidate by region in the second round Leading candidate by province in the second round Leading candidate by district in the second round The first round was held on 11 April.[3] [4] Pedro Castillo of Free Peru had placed first in the first round of voting with approximately 16.1% of the vote, with Hernando de Soto and Keiko Fujimori tying with 11.9% each.[4] Yonhy Lescano , Rafael López Aliaga , Verónika Mendoza , and George Forsyth followed, with each receiving 11.0%, 10.5%, 8.8%, and 6.4%, respectively.[4] César Acuña and Daniel Urresti received 5.8% and 5.0%, respectively, while the rest of the nominees attained less than 3% of the popular vote.[5] [6]
In the second round, Castillo defeated Fujimori by just 44,263 votes, winning by 50.13% to 49.87%. Castillo was officially designated as president-elect of Peru on 19 July 2021, a little over a week before he was to be inaugurated.[7]
Candidate Party First round Second round Votes % Votes % Pedro Castillo Free Peru 2,724,752 18.92 8,836,380 50.13 Keiko Fujimori Popular Force 1,930,762 13.41 8,792,117 49.87 Rafael López Aliaga Popular Renewal 1,692,279 11.75 Hernando de Soto Go on Country – Social Integration Party 1,674,201 11.63 Yonhy Lescano Popular Action 1,306,288 9.07 Verónika Mendoza Together for Peru 1,132,577 7.86 César Acuña Alliance for Progress 867,025 6.02 George Forsyth National Victory 814,516 5.66 Daniel Urresti Podemos Perú 812,721 5.64 Julio Guzmán Purple Party 325,608 2.26 Alberto Beingolea Christian People's Party 286,447 1.99 Daniel Salaverry We Are Peru 240,234 1.67 Ollanta Humala Peruvian Nationalist Party 230,831 1.60 José Vega Union for Peru 101,267 0.70 Ciro Gálvez National United Renaissance 89,376 0.62 Marco Arana Broad Front 65,300 0.45 Rafael Santos Peru Secure Homeland 55,644 0.39 Andrés Alcántara Direct Democracy 50,802 0.35 Total 14,400,630 100.00 17,628,497 100.00 Valid votes 14,400,630 81.30 17,628,497 93.49 Invalid votes 1,123,027 6.34 1,106,816 5.87 Blank votes 2,190,059 12.36 121,489 0.64 Total votes 17,713,716 100.00 18,856,802 100.00 Registered voters/turnout 25,287,954 70.05 25,287,954 74.57 Source: ONPE , ONPE
By department
2021 Peruvian presidential election results – First round by Department
Department
Castillo
Fujimori
López Aliaga
De Soto
Lescano
Mendoza
Other
Valid
Turnout
Votes
%
Votes
%
Votes
%
Votes
%
Votes
%
Votes
%
Votes
%
Amazonas 34,411 26.1% 17,805
13.5%
8,269
6.3%
4,433
3.4%
12,698
9.6%
8,887
6.7%
45,557
34.5%
132,060
60.1%
Ancash 110,620 23.4% 67,394
14.3%
42,312
9.0%
34,562
7.3%
38,911
8.2%
39,786
8.4%
138,200
29.3%
471,785
69.3%
Apurimac 88,812 53.4% 10,879
6.5%
7,768
4.7%
6,531
3.9%
15,649
9.4%
15,368
9.2%
21,179
12.7%
166,186
69.4%
Arequipa 256,224 32.2% 40,216
5.1%
71,053
8.9%
148,793
18.7%
88,708
11.1%
55,269
6.9%
135,448
17.0%
795,711
78.8%
Ayacucho 130,224 52.0% 17,751
7.1%
11,490
4.6%
8,995
3.6%
20,315
8.1%
24,506
9.8%
37,269
14.9%
250,550
68.6%
Cajamarca 232,418 44.9% 54,962
10.6%
31,129
6.0%
25,156
4.9%
38,677
7.5%
29,746
5.7%
105,374
20.4%
517,462
62.6%
Callao 33,750
6.4%
79,699 15.2% 78,066
14.9%
78,920
15.0%
34,965
6.7%
38,233
7.3%
181,634
34.6%
525,267
75.2%
Cusco 232,178 38.2% 27,132
4.5%
29,618
4.9%
40,423
6.6%
60,659
10.0%
123,397
20.3%
94,626
15.6%
608,033
73.5%
Huancavelica 79,895 54.2% 8,449
5.7%
5,060
3.4%
4,591
3.1%
16,727
11.3%
10,091
6.8%
22,574
15.3%
147,387
67.6%
Huanuco 110,978 37.6% 32,827
11.1%
33,787
11.4%
15,822
5.4%
22,565
7.6%
15,556
5.3%
63,688
21.6%
295,223
68.3%
Ica 56,597
14.0%
62,055 15.3% 46,098
11.4%
39,929
9.8%
39,461
9.7%
30,602
7.5%
130,887
32.3%
405,629
76.0%
Junin 131,438 22.9% 80,057
13.9%
52,599
9.2%
54,124
9.4%
66,214
11.5%
52,270
9.1%
137,396
23.9%
574,098
71.9%
La Libertad 90,078
11.5%
131,441 16.8% 95,765
12.2%
84,444
10.8%
47,218
6.0%
37,372
4.8%
296,598
37.9%
782,916
68.9%
Lambayeque 73,279
12.9%
121,263 21.4% 86,126
15.2%
50,087
8.8%
51,467
9.1%
28,866
5.1%
155,480
27.4%
566,568
71.4%
Lima 416,537
7.8%
753,785
14.2%
869,950
16.4%
870,582 16.4% 362,668
6.8%
431,425
8.1%
1,602,623
30.2%
5,307,570
74.6%
Loreto 15,432
4.9%
51,900
16.6% 16,378
5.3%
18,816
6.0%
34,773
11.2%
19,502
6.3%
155,025
49.7%
311,826
61.0%
Madre de Dios 23,945 37.1% 7,278
11.3%
4,041
6.3%
3,996
6.2%
6,601
10.2%
4,372
6.8%
14,341
22.2%
64,574
71.1%
Moquegua 33,665 34.4% 4,617
4.7%
6,832
7.0%
10,183
10.4%
15,412
15.7%
7,190
7.3%
20,027
20.5%
97,926
77.2%
Pasco 34,187 34.2% 12,607
12.6%
8,009
8.0%
5,102
5.1%
11,871
11.9%
6,896
6.9%
21,324
21.3%
99,996
63.6%
Piura 70,968
10.1%
173,891 24.8% 68,316
9.8%
63,842
9.1%
51,223
7.3%
44,576
6.4%
227,714
32.5%
700,530
66.8%
Puno 292,218 47.5% 17,514
2.8%
15,918
2.6%
21,665
3.5%
175,712
28.5%
35,484
5.8%
57,010
9.3%
615,521
81.9%
San Martin 67,000 21.4% 46,699
14.9%
26,561
8.5%
21,825
7.0%
31,498
10.0%
17,122
5.5%
102,765
32.8%
313,470
69.2%
Tacna 64,521 33.2% 9,363
4.8%
17,842
9.2%
21,000
10.8%
28,696
14.8%
14,068
7.2%
38,779
20.0%
194,269
77.8%
Tumbes 7,613
7.7%
36,403 37.1% 8,799
9.0%
7,123
7.3%
7,046
7.2%
5,242
5.3%
26,015
26.5%
98,241
74.6%
Ucayali 26,339
14.0%
40,510 21.5% 14,981
8.0%
11,124
5.9%
14,359
7.6%
15,092
8.0%
65,965
35.0%
188,370
66.3%
Peruvians Abroad
10,602
6.6%
22,887
14.1%
34,767 21.5% 21,552
13.3%
11,617
7.2%
21,185
13.1%
39,146
24.2%
161,756
22.8%
Total 2,723,929 18.9% 1,929,384 13.4% 1,691,534 11.8% 1,673,620 11.6% 1,305,710 9.1% 1,132,103 7.9% 3,936,644 27.4% 14,392,924 70.0%
Source: ONPE (100% counted)
Parliamentary election
Results of the Congressional election. Map of percentage of votes received by the largest party per region. The Popular Action , the largest party in the previous legislature, lost some of its seats, and previous parliamentary parties like Union for Peru (UPP) and the Broad Front (FA) had their worst results ever, attaining no representation.[8] Peruvian Nationalist Party of former President Ollanta Humala and National Victory of George Forsyth (who led polling for the presidential election earlier in the year) failed to win seats as well.[8] Free Peru , Go on Country and Together for Peru and Popular Renewal , the successor of National Solidarity , had good results, with Free Peru becoming the largest party in Congress.[8] Contigo , the successor to former president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski 's Peruvians for Change party, failed to win a seat once again and received less than 1% of the vote.[8] María del Carmen Alva successfully negotiated an agreement to gain control of Peru's Congress.[9]
Party Votes % Seats +/– Free Peru 1,724,354 13.41 37 +37 Popular Force 1,457,694 11.34 24 +9 Popular Renewal 1,199,705 9.33 13 +13 Popular Action 1,159,734 9.02 16 −9 Alliance for Progress 969,726 7.54 15 −7 Go on Country – Social Integration Party 969,092 7.54 7 +7 Together for Peru 847,596 6.59 5 +5 We Are Peru 788,522 6.13 5 −6 Podemos Perú 750,262 5.83 5 −6 Purple Party 697,307 5.42 3 −6 National Victory 638,289 4.96 0 New Agricultural People's Front of Peru 589,018 4.58 0 −15 Union for Peru 266,349 2.07 0 −13 Christian People's Party 212,820 1.65 0 0 Peruvian Nationalist Party 195,538 1.52 0 New Broad Front 135,104 1.05 0 −9 Direct Democracy 100,033 0.78 0 0 National United Renaissance 97,540 0.76 0 0 Peru Secure Homeland 54,859 0.43 0 0 Contigo 5,787 0.05 0 0 Total 12,859,329 100.00 130 0 Valid votes 12,859,329 72.56 Invalid votes 2,737,099 15.44 Blank votes 2,126,712 12.00 Total votes 17,723,140 100.00 Registered voters/turnout 25,287,954 70.09 Source: ONPE , Ojo Público
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