2021 Peruvian general election

2021 Peruvian general election

Presidential election
11 April 2021 (first round) 6 June 2021 (second round)
Turnout	70.05% (first round) 11.7% 74.57% (second round) 5.5%
Nominee Pedro Castillo Keiko Fujimori Party Free Peru Popular Force Running mate Dina Boluarte Vladimir Cerrón Luis Galarreta Patricia Juárez Popular vote 8,835,970 8,791,730 Percentage 50.13% 49.87%
Results of the second round by region (left) and province (right). Darker shades indicate a higher vote share.
President before election Francisco Sagasti Purple Party Elected President Pedro Castillo Free Peru
Congressional election
11 April 2021
All 130 seats in the Congress of Peru 66 seats needed for a majority
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/– Free Peru Vladimir Cerrón 13.41 37 +37 Popular Force Keiko Fujimori 11.34 24 +9 Popular Renewal Rafael López Aliaga 9.33 13 +13 Popular Action Mesías Guevara 9.02 16 −9 APP César Acuña 7.54 15 −7 Go on Country – Social Integration Party Pedro Cenas 7.54 7 +7 Together for Peru Roberto Sánchez 6.59 5 +5 We Are Peru Patricia Li 6.13 5 −6 Podemos Perú José Luna 5.83 5 −6 Purple Party Julio Guzmán 5.42 3 −6 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Results of the Congressional election.

General elections were held in Peru on 11 April 2021. The presidential election, which will determine the President and the Vice Presidents, required a run-off between the two top finishers on 6 June 2021. The congressional elections determined the composition of the Congress of Peru. All 130 seats of the unicameral Congress were contested.

Eighteen candidates participated in the presidential election, the highest number of candidates since the 2006 Peruvian general election. Pedro Castillo, a member of the left-wing Free Peru party, received the most votes in the first round. He faced Keiko Fujimori, the leader of the right-wing Popular Force who had previously narrowly lost the run-offs of the 2011 and the 2016 elections. The official count of the second round by the National Office of Electoral Processes indicated that Castillo won 50.13% of valid votes, a lead of 44,240 over Fujimori, but an official outcome is yet to be declared by the National Jury of Elections.

Electoral system

Presidential election

The President is elected using the two-round system. The first round voting was held on 11 April and allows eligible voters to vote for any viable presidential candidate. The top two candidates who receive a plurality of the vote proceed to the run-off election, which took place on 6 June. The winner of the run-off election and the presidential election is the candidate who receives a plurality of the popular vote. 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.

Congressional elections

The 130 members of Congress are elected in 27 multi-member constituencies using open list proportional representation. 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.

Andean parliament

Peru has 5 places in the Andean Parliament and are elected using a common constituency by open-list.

Date

Early election proposal

President Martín Vizcarra initially presented legislation that would set the conditions for a snap election in 2020. If successful, Vizcarra would not be eligible for re-election. The 2020 proposed Peruvian general election would be held on 11 April 2020, to elect a new President of the Republic of Peru, along with 130 congressmen of the Congress of Peru. It was eventually decided to be held on 26 January 2020. Opposition lawmakers condemned Vizcarra's proposal, defending the practice of five-year terms. This constitutional reform was rejected.

Official election date

The 2021 Peruvian general election were held on 11 April 2021, to elect the president of the Republic of Peru, two vice presidents of the same party, 130 congressmen of the Congress of Peru and 5 Andean parliamentarians for a five-year term from 2021 to 2026.

On 11 April 130 congressmen were elected in 27 electoral districts, corresponding to the 24 departments, the Province of Lima, the Constitutional Province of Callao and residents living abroad.

The elected congressmen will be sworn in and assume office no later than 27 July 2021; the constitutional president of the Republic and his elected vice presidents will do so on 28 July 2021.

Presidential nominations

Main presidential nominees

Presidential tickets
Go on Country – Social Integration Party	National Victory	Popular Force	Popular Action	Together for Peru	Podemos Perú
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Hernando de Soto	George Forsyth	Keiko Fujimori	style="width:160px; font-size:120%; background:Template:Popular Action (Peru)/meta/color;"| Yonhy Lescano	Verónika Mendoza	Daniel Urresti
President of the Institute Liberty and Democracy (1979–present)	Mayor of La Victoria (2019–2020)	Member of Congress From Lima (2006–2011)	Member of Congress From Puno / Lima (2001–2019)	Member of Congress From Cuzco (2011–2016)	Member of Congress From Lima (2020–2021)
Running mates
1st: Corinne Flores 2nd: Jaime Salomón	1st: Patricia Arévalo 2nd: Jorge Chávez Álvarez	1st: Luis Galarreta 2nd: Patricia Juárez	1st: Gisela Tipe 2nd: Luis Alberto Velarde	1st: José Antonio de Echave 2nd: Luzmila Ayay	1st: María Teresa Cabrera 2nd: Wilbert Portugal
Alliance for Progress	Free Peru	Purple Party	Peruvian Nationalist Party	Popular Renewal	We Are Peru
César Acuña	Pedro Castillo	Julio Guzmán	Ollanta Humala	Rafael López Aliaga	Daniel Salaverry
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Governor of La Libertad (2015)	Schoolteacher/Union Organizer from Cajamarca (1995–present)	Secretary General of the Office of the Prime Minister (2012–2013)	President of Peru (2011–2016)	Lima City Councilman (2007–2010)	Member of Congress From La Libertad (2016–2019)
Running mates
1st: Carmen Omonte 2nd: Luis Iberico	1st: Dina Boluarte 2nd: Vladimir Cerrón	1st: Flor Pablo 2nd: Francisco Sagasti	1st: Ana María Salinas 2nd: Alberto Otárola	1st: Neldy Mendoza 2nd: Jorge Montoya	1st: Matilde Fernández 2nd: Jorge Pérez Flores

• George Forsyth is a former football player who played as goalkeeper throughout his sports career. The son of diplomat Harold Forsyth, he entered politics as councilman of La Victoria District in 2010, and as the district's mayor from 2019 until his resignation in October 2020 to run for the presidency. Previously not-affiliated to party politics, he reached an agreement with National Restoration for his presidential run. Upon his registration, the party filed a name-change to be reorganized into National Victory for the general election.
• Pedro Castillo is Free Peru's nominee and schoolteacher from Cajamarca. He is a former Ronda Campesina that defended rural areas from the Shining Path in the 1980s, and a politician with the centre-left party Possible Peru from 2002 to 2017. He gained attention in 2017, as he led multiple teacher strikes in five regions against Pedro Pablo Kuczynski's administration. Castillo has called for the renegotiation of government contracts with large businesses and to rewrite the constitution to protect Peruvians from foreign control.
• Keiko Fujimori is the leader of the conservative and far-right Popular Force. The daughter of former president Alberto Fujimori, she still remains a polarizing figure in Peruvian politics since her last presidential run in 2016, but with lower support due to her parliamentary caucus's obstructionist role during the presidencies of Pedro Pablo Kuczynski and Martín Vizcarra. She continues to be viewed unfavorably by a number of people who oppose Fujimori for human rights abuses and corrupt practices, mostly from the left-wing spectrum, and who fear that her victory would mark a return of Fujimorismo. In addition, she has been involved in the Odebrecht scandal, for which she has served in pretrial detention since 2018 with conditional release in 2020. Among her first campaign appearances, she has vowed to pardon her father if winning the presidency in her third run.
• Yonhy Lescano is Popular Action's (AP) nominee. Serving in the Peruvian Congress from 2001 to 2019 representing the constituency of Puno then, Lima, he attained the nomination under a left-wing platform in a competitive primary against the more conservative Alfredo Barnechea. His support is based in the highlands, more punctually in Puno and surrounding rural areas.
• Verónika Mendoza is Together for Peru's (JPP) nominee and leader of the democratic socialist New Peru movement. Since she could not register her own party on time for the election, she sealed a political accord with JPP for her presidential run. Her left-wing platform has remained controversial since her first presidential stint in 2016, in which she placed third and was key in Pedro Pablo Kuczynski's run-off victory by endorsing him to prevent Keiko Fujimori to win. She previously served in the Peruvian Congress from 2011 to 2016, representing the constituency of Cuzco.
• Rafael López Aliaga is the leader of Popular Renewal. A businessman with no relevant political experience, he gained political traction due to his ultraconservative rhetoric, adding to his self-proclamation as "the Peruvian Bolsonaro" due to his religious views and far-right policies similar to the Brazilian president. His campaign runs under a fully right wing platform opposed to abortion and same-sex marriage. His collaboration with Fujimorists and the Popular Force party of Keiko Fujimori has also been documented.
• Hernando de Soto is Go on Country's nominee. A free-market economist specialized in informal economy and on the importance of business and property rights, he was a main advisor for President Alberto Fujimori, assisting him with establishing macroeconomic stability for Peru in the aftermath of the Lost Decade. In addition, he has served as an economic advisor to world-leaders since the foundation of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy (ILD), an economic development think-tank based in Lima. In the public sector, he briefly served as a member of the board of directors of the Central Reserve Bank of Peru, in 1979. In previous elections, he supported Keiko Fujimori's candidacies, serving as one of her advisors. His party has been described as a mere electoral vehicle by analysts due to his technical profile.
• Julio Guzmán is the founder and leader of the Purple Party. A former public administrator, he first ran for the presidency in 2016 for All for Peru, but was disqualified due to irregularities in the nomination process. His party is currently in government with Francisco Sagasti as President of Peru following the removal of Martín Vizcarra and resignation of Manuel Merino, which has affected negatively his campaign due to the government's management of the COVID-19 pandemic in Peru. In addition, a scandal involving him escaping from a fire in an apartment during a lunch with a supposed lover revealed in early 2020 further damaged his public persona.
• Daniel Urresti is a former army general who first attained popularity as Interior Minister in the presidency of Ollanta Humala. Elected to the Peruvian Congress with the highest-vote count in 2020 with Podemos Perú, he attained the party's presidential nomination as the only candidate. He previously ran for the presidency for Peruvian Nationalist Party in 2016, although the party withdrew his ticket from the race, and placed second for mayor of Lima at the 2018 municipal election with Podemos Perú. He is currently under investigation for the murder of a journalist during his years in the Peruvian Army, which has proved negative to his campaign, in addition to his wry media exposure from years prior to Congress.
• Ollanta Humala is the leader of the Peruvian Nationalist Party and the only former President of Peru running for a second non-consecutive term. A former army lieutenant colonel, he remained unpopular throughout his presidency due to the few advances his government made, in addition to serving a short pre-trial detention from 2017 to 2018 for allegedly receiving bribes from Odebrecht, for which he continues to be under investigation alongside his wife, Nadine Heredia.
• Daniel Salaverry is We Are Peru's nominee. An architect from La Libertad, he started a career in politics for mayor of Trujillo with the Peruvian Aprista Party in 2010, and Popular Force in 2014. With the latter, he was elected to the Peruvian Congress in 2016. As a member of the majority caucus, he was elected President of Congress in 2018, but quit the caucus as he supposedly received pressure from the Fujimorist leadership to undermine Martín Vizcarra's presidency. As part of his campaign, Vizcarra remains his main political asset for his presidential run due to the former president's congressional candidacy for the constituency of Lima.
• César Acuña is the founder and leader of Alliance for Progress. An entrepreneur in the field of education, he entered politics in 2000 when elected to the Peruvian Congress, in which he served until 2006. Subsequently, he served as mayor of Trujillo from 2007 to 2014, and as governor of La Libertad in 2015. He initially ran for the presidency in the 2016, but was disqualified for alleged vote buying in a campaign trail. In addition, his popularity has diminished due to his party's recent voting records in Congress, thus contradicting his campaign rhetoric, although at first leading the congressional polling after impressively attaining the second largest number of seats at the 2020 parliamentary election.

Minor presidential nominees

• Alberto Beingolea is the leader of the centre-right Christian People's Party. He previously served in the Peruvian Congress from 2011 to 2016. Prior to entering politics, he had a successful career as a sports journalist. Most recently, he ran for mayor of Lima in the 2018 municipal election, in which he placed fourth.
• Marco Arana is the leader of the Broad Front, a left-wing informal coalition of parties and unions. A former bishop from Cajamarca, he ran unsuccessfully for the vice presidency in 2016 with Verónika Mendoza as the party's presidential nominee. He served in the Peruvian Congress from 2016 to 2019.
• Rafael Santos is Peru Secure Homeland's nominee. A businessman in the agrarian exportation area, he entered politics when he successfully ran for mayor of Pueblo Libre in 2006. He was reelected in 2010, but failed to attain a third term in 2014. He was previously a member of the Christian People's Party.
• José Vega is the leader of Union for Peru. A congressman for the constituency of Lima, he further radicalized his party following his accord with the imprisoned military revolt leader, Antauro Humala, the brother of former president Ollanta Humala. He previously served a full term in the Peruvian Congress from 2006 to 2011.
• Ciro Gálvez is the leader of the National United Renaissance. A lawyer and notary based in Junín, his platform remains conservative, declaring to be in opposition to LGBT rights. For the election, his ticket includes former pastor and businessman Claudio Zolla as his first running-mate, due to a political accord with the New Peru Liberal Party, a libertarian movement led by Zolla.
• Andrés Alcántara is the leader of Direct Democracy. A left-wing populist, he presides the FONAVI housing pensioners association, for which he campaigned strongly since early 2000s until 2010 for the government's full pension devolution, which was achieved following via referendum. His campaign platform is poised in reforming and eventually replacing the Constitution of Peru. He ran for the vice presidency in the last three general elections.

Withdrawn nominees

Party	Ticket			Withdrawal
Name	for President	for First Vice President	for Second Vice President	Date	Motive
Peruvian Aprista Party Partido Aprista Peruano	Nidia Vílchez Yucra	Iván Hidalgo Romero	Olga Cribilleros Shigihara	16 January 2021	Prompted upon the National Jury of Elections' rejection of inscription of parliamentary lists past the deadline.

Rejected nominees

Party	Ticket			Rejection
Name	for President	for First Vice President	for Second Vice President	Date	Motive
Contigo Political Party Partido Político Contigo	Pedro Angulo Arana	Casimira Mujica	Alexander von Ehren	22 December 2020	Did not meet the deadline to register for the election on time.
Peru Nation Perú Nación	Francisco Diez Canseco	Nancy Cáceres	Manuel Salazar	22 December 2020	Did not meet the deadline to register for the election on time.
Front of Hope 2021 Frente de la Esperanza 2021	Fernando Olivera	Elizabeth León	Carlos Cuaresma	24 December 2020	Party did not fulfill requirements for registration to participate.
All for Peru Todos por el Perú	Fernando Cillóniz	Blanca Wong	Jaime Freundt	26 December 2020	Party lacked the legitimacy to participate in the election due to unsolved internal legal disputes.

Disqualified nominees

Party	Ticket			Rejection
Name	for President	for First Vice President	for Second Vice President	Date	Motive
Union for Peru Unión por el Perú	José Vega	Haydee Andrade	Daniel Barragán	29 December 2020	Incomplete information regarding income on the nominees registration form. The decision was ultimately revoked by the National Jury of Elections, thus admitting and registering the ticket on 6 February 2021.
Alliance for Progress Alianza para el Progreso	César Acuña	Carmen Omonte	Luis Iberico Núñez	8 January 2021	Incomplete information regarding the presidential nominee's income in registration form. Disqualification revoked by the National Jury of Elections on 22 January 2021, following an appeal.
We Can Peru Podemos Peru	Daniel Urresti	Maria Teresa Cabrera	Wilbert Portugal	4 February 2021	Unanswered questions about the internal democracy of the party. Disqualifiation revoked by the National Jury of Elections on 18 February 2021, following an appeal.
National Victory Victoria Nacional	George Forsyth	Patricia Arévalo	Jorge Chávez Álvarez	10 February 2021	Incomplete information regarding income on the nominees registration form. Disqualification revoked by the National Jury of Elections on 5 March 2021, following an appeal.
Popular Renewal Renovación Popular	Rafael López Aliaga	Neldy Mendoza	Jorge Montoya	25 February 2021	Nominee's public statement on donating his salary to charity if elected president is presumed as alleged vote buying. Disqualification revoked by the National Jury of Elections on 5 March 2021, following an appeal.
National United Renaissance Renacimiento Unido Nacional	Ciro Gálvez	Sonia García	Claudio Zolla	25 February 2021	Incomplete information regarding the presidential nominee's income in registration form. Disqualification revoked by the National Jury of Elections on 5 March 2021, following an appeal.

Campaign

Campaign issues

Constitution of 1993

Multiple candidates called for constitutional reform or an entirely new constitution to reduce corruption and to bring more prosperity to Peru. Constitutional changes in Peru are overseen by the Congress of Peru. To hold a constitutional referendum, a majority vote from congress is required to approve the election. All proposed constitutional reforms would also have to be approved by congress. Following the first round elections and the divided legislators from numerous different parties voted into congress, chances of candidates changing the constitution were limited.

Corruption in Peru has been pervasive and was recently brought to attention during the Odebrecht scandal, which involved Odebrecht paying politicians to receive contracts for public works projects. BBC News wrote in 2019 that "Peru is perhaps where [Odebrecht] has caused the most severe crisis" and that "[t]he scandal has discredited virtually the entire political elite of the country, as all major parties and players have been implicated." The Odebrecht scandal led to several incidents in Peruvian politics; the suicide of former president Alan García, the order for the arrest of former president Alejandro Toledo as well as the first impeachment process against Pedro Pablo Kuczynski and later his resignation from the presidency. Two candidates in the 2021 elections, Keiko Fujimori and Julio Guzmán, were also under investigation regarding alleged bribes from Odebrecht during their earlier electoral campaigns. Kuczynski's successor Martín Vizcarra reacted to the Odebrecht scandal with multiple anti-corruption initiatives, although Vizcarra was controversially removed from office for his own alleged involvement in corruption and was replaced with President of Congress Manuel Merino. Vizcarra's removal was very unfavorable with Peruvians and resulted with the 2020 Peruvian protests. Merino would be president for only five days and would later be replaced by Francisco Sagasti following a vote from congress.

Pedro Castillo proposed to elect a constituent assembly to replace the constitution inherited from Alberto Fujimori's regime, with Castillo saying "it serves to defend corruption at macro scale" and that he would respect the rule of law by calling for a constitutional referendum to determine whether a constituent assembly should be formed or not. Veronika Mendoza also embraced calls for a new constitution instead of amendments, stating "Our current national institutional framework, enshrined in the Constitution, establishes that education, health care, and housing are for-profit enterprises, and that life itself is a commodity to be bought and sold. What this means is that political power is concentrated in the hands of those with money, and not with the Peruvian people."

George Forsyth, the initial frontrunner in the campaign, benefitted from his celebrity fame and not being involved with the traditional political parties being investigated for corruption. Forsyth called for constitutional amendments instead of a new constitution, supporting an amendment that would declare corruption a crime against humanity.

One of the few candidates to support the existing constitution was Keiko Fujimori. Fujimori has stated that she would keep the 1993 constitution of her father Alberto Fujimori in place, instead advocating for the use of a "heavy hand" if elected president, stating: "Democracy cannot be weak. It must be supported by a solid principle of authority."

COVID-19 pandemic

Further information: COVID-19 pandemic in Peru

Peru is one of the worst-affected nations in the world from the COVID-19 pandemic, with at least 0.5% of the population dying during the pandemic. The crisis became so intense by January 2021 due to a second wave of infections that ICU bed occupancy in Peru rose to 90%, with medical workers beginning to participate in strikes due to their harsh work conditions.

Forsyth criticized the COVID-19 lockdowns of the Peruvian government, saying that they caused economic distress and that the National Emergency Operations Center (COEN) should be activated for a civil-military partnership to combat further infection. Mendoza was also critical of how lockdowns were initiated, saying that the government should provide support for families affected by lockdowns, promoted a partnership with Argentina to acquire the Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine and denounced the potential commercialization of the COVID-19 vaccine in Peru.

On 24 February 2021, following an approach to advise Francisco Sagasti on the COVID-19 pandemic management in Peru, Hernando de Soto announced the first shadow cabinet in Peruvian history. Mainly composed of his campaign technical team, the main purpose of the opposition cabinet is to offer an alternative for the government to concur and apply De Soto's proposals during the crisis.

Economy

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, Peru's gross domestic product fell 30.2 percent in the second quarter of 2020, the largest decline of all major economies, with many small service businesses that represent the majority of businesses of Peru's economy going bankrupt during the crisis. Medical experts commented that the severity of the COVID-19 outbreak in Peru can be explained at least in part due to existing socioeconomic circumstances; nearly one-third of Peruvians lived in overcrowded homes, 72% had informal jobs requiring daily work and many needed to travel daily to markets to purchase food since only 49% of households own refrigerators or freezers; even in urban areas it is only 61%.

Political scientist Paula Muñoz of the Universidad del Pacífico described Forsyth as "a pro-business guy", while Americas Quarterly wrote "his views on big economic issues are less clear." Forsyth and Fujimori both shared his support for the privatization of public utilities and the deregulation of the economy, with the two saying that government intervention hinders growth. Fujimori also stated that she wanted to make "the State the main partner of entrepreneurs." In contrast, Mendoza criticized the neoliberal policies instituted in Peru since the 1990s, demanded "the decommodification of goods like health, education, and housing", and promoted the government funding of sustainable agricultural and energy projects, all while protecting the environment.

Immigration

As a result of the Venezuelan refugee crisis, Peru was home to over one million Venezuelans in February 2021. At that time, the Peruvian Armed Forces were deployed in a joint operation with Ecuadorian counterparts to the Ecuador-Peru border to prevent the entry of illegal migrants, with the armed forces stating that it was to prevent further introduction of COVID-19 in Peru. Human rights organizations criticized the militarization of the border, saying that they are not properly trained for border enforcement and that it violates the human rights of migrants. Xenophobia towards Venezuelans in Peru has also increased, as some politicians have blamed increased crime on the migrants, although the Brookings Institution and Migration Policy Institute found that Venezuelan participate in less crime in Peru than native Peruvians.

On the immigration topic, Forsyth's responses varied; he stated that "Peru is a generous country that opens its doors to foreigners" while he also supported deploying more authorities to control the border, stating that migrants "have humiliated our National Police" and "We need the principle of authority in the country. [...] We need an empowered police to defend all of us Peruvians." Regarding her position on immigration, Mendoza stated: "Migration must be considered on humanitarian criteria. Peruvians have also migrated." Although some controls should be instituted to prevent criminals from entering, she promoted migrants as "people who can contribute to the country." Fujimori supported increased border security, promoting the use of police and the Peruvian Armed Forces for guarding the border.

Leftist candidate Pedro Castillo called on Maduro to take Venezuelan refugees back to their native country, saying that Venezuelans arrived in Peru "to commit crimes." Castillo described the Venezuelan refugee crisis as an issue of "human trafficking", and said that he would give Venezuelans who commit crimes seventy-two hours to leave Peru.

Analysis

Ballot paper for the second round.

Party politics

Political parties in Peru have been controlled by individuals seeking their own benefits, usually financial compensation. According to The Economist, political graft was the largest challenge facing Peru instead of the ideological battles in the press. Due to the large divisions of parties in congress, with over eleven parties elected into the Congress of Peru, whoever was elected into the presidency was expected to be weak due to the fractured congress. Political analyst Giovanna Peñaflor agreed with the theory of a weak presidency, saying that the fragmented congress would leave the executive vulnerable to legislators.

When discussing the state of party politics during the election, especially among congress, political scientist Adriana Urrutia said: "Political parties are no longer a vehicle for representation of the citizenry." Urrutia explained that traditional parties are known among Peruvians to represent groups related to corruption in the country, including lucrative private universities, illegal logging and mining, among others.

Regarding the first round of presidential elections, Javier Puente, assistant professor of Latin American Studies at Smith College in the North American Congress on Latin America wrote: "With a baffling number of candidates – 18 in total – the 2021 presidential ballot included convicted felons, presumed money launderers, xenophobes, a fascist billionaire, an overrated and outdated economist, a retired mediocre footballer, a person accused of murdering a journalist, and other colorful figures. The vast majority of candidates represented the continuation of the neoliberal economic model that has been responsible for decades of meager financial performance and unequal growth." Puente stated that only three leftist candidates proposed alternatives to the neoliberal politicians; Veronika Mendoza, Marco Arana and Pedro Castillo, describing Castillo as "far from being a 'comrade' who will champion leftist demands, Castillo is the new face of an anti-system impulse. [...] Only in a neoliberal system that outcasts any form of market dissent as radical would a figure like Castillo acquire a role as a leftist."

Ideologies

Due to the internal conflict in Peru involving far-left guerrilla groups attacking Peru's institutions which mainly occurred in the 1980s and 1990s, sentiments towards left-wing political parties have a negative stigma skewed against them. While campaigning occurred during the elections, right-wing politicians would often baselessly characterize left-wing politicians as terrorists, or terrucos in Peruvian Spanish, with the attacks being so common that they were given the term terruqueo. The Americas Quarterly argues that such behavior may result in less support for the leftist candidate Verónika Mendoza and promote political polarization within Peru. With the ongoing political crisis that saw in the span of two years the dissolution of the Congress of Peru and the removal of three presidents (Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, Martín Vizcarra, and Manuel Merino), concerns were raised among analysts about the increased political polarization's relationship with Peru's democratic stability. Lead researcher of pollster Institute of Peruvian Studies, Patricia Zárate, stated: "I think the scenario that's coming is really frightening."

Some scholars have recognized the similarities of Fujimori and Castillo; both are cultural conservatives opposing same-sex marriage and abortion, as campaigning for the second round of elections began. Olga González, associate dean of the Kofi Annan Institute for Global Citizenship at Macalester College, stated that the situation is more complex than "binaries" between social classes, although she acknowledged that such dichotomies "speak to how polarized the country is."

Vargas Llosa analysis

Regarding the second round of presidential elections, Peruvian Nobel Prize laureate and writer Mario Vargas Llosa said that the candidate Castillo would undermine democracy, ruin Peru's economy and leave the country "with all the characteristics of a communist society" and that "Peruvians should vote for Keiko Fujimori because she represents the lesser of two evils and, if she's in power, there are more possibilities of saving our democracy." Vargas Llosa urged Fujimori to respect freedom of expression, presidential term limits, and rule out a pardon for Vladimiro Montesinos, who served as Alberto Fujimori's head of intelligence service.

Political scientist professor Farid Kahhat of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru stated that "Vargas Llosa has a habit of issuing categorical judgments that later make him look ridiculous. ... Frankly, any Peruvian who has followed Vargas Llosa’s career realizes that he is not worth taking seriously." Vargas Llosa ran and lost against Alberto Fujimori in Peru's 1990 elections, and had previously criticized Fujimori, making statements such as "the worst option is that of Keiko Fujimori because it means the legitimation of one of the worst dictatorships that Peru has had in its history" and that "Keiko is the daughter of a murderer and a thief who is imprisoned, tried by civil courts with international observers, sentenced to 25 years in prison for murder and theft. I do not want her to win the elections." Argentine newspaper Página/12 criticized Vargas Llosa, noting his reversal on previous statements, stating that "the neoliberal right is allied with authoritarian Fujimori", and arguing that Vargas Llosa was "betting on fear and resuscitating an anti-communist coalition."

Rural vs. urban debate

In democratic elections since 1919, eleven of eighteen presidents of Peru were from Lima, even as many Peruvians in rural areas were not able to vote until 1979 when the constitution allowed illiterate individuals to vote. Alhough economic statistics show improved economic data in Peru in recent decades, the wealth earned between 1990 and 2020 was not distributed throughout the country; living standards showed disparities between the more-developed capital city of Lima and similar coastal regions while rural provinces remained impoverished. The COVID-19 pandemic exasperated these disparities even further. Kahhat stated that "market reforms in Peru have yielded positive results in terms of reducing poverty ... But what the pandemic has laid bare, particularly in Peru, is that poverty was reduced while leaving the miserable state of public services unaltered – most clearly in the case of health services."

Leading to the election, opinion polls showed wealthy Peruvians favored Keiko while the poor supported Castillo, with the latter demographic representing a larger portion of voters. Castillo's candidacy brought attention to this divide with much of his support being earned in the exterior portions of the country. In May 2021, Americas Quarterly wrote: "Life expectancy in Huancavelica, for example, the region where Castillo received his highest share of the vote in the first round, is seven years shorter than in Lima. In Puno, where Castillo received over 47% of the vote, the infant mortality rate is almost three times that of Lima's."

According to historian José Ragas of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, although Castillo was accused of being linked to communist terrorism, "in places where terrorism caused the most bloodshed, Castillo won by a lot." The separation of Lima and rural Peru also led to the underestimation of Castillo's performance in first-round elections. Castillo received a majority vote in all but one of Peru's mining provinces, with researcher Hugo Ñopo of the Lima-based GRADE stating: "The regions that provide those minerals that make Peru rich do not improve the living standards of the local communities, ... Many people perceive that the winners of these three decades are not them, but are the people in Lima and the big cities." Sociologist Maritza Paredes of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru shared similar thoughts, saying: "People see that all the natural resources are in the countryside but all the benefits are concentrated in Lima." In contrast, Fujimori received support from Lima's elite, according to Kahhat. Kahhat said that evangelical Christians, businesses, media organizations, and the armed forces supported Fujimori, with the nation's largest media organization El Comercio group openly advocating for her election.

Opinion polls

Main article: Opinion polling for the 2021 Peruvian general election

Controversy

Media

During the intense periods of internal conflict in Peru in the 1980s and 1990s, the government, military, and media in Peru described any individual who was left on the political spectrum as being a threat to the nation, with many students, professors, union members, and peasants being jailed or killed for their political beliefs. Such sentiments continued for decades into the election, with Peru's right-wing elite and media organizations collaborating with Fujimori's campaign by appealing to fear when discussing political opponents. In the second round of elections, Peru's major media networks aligned with Fujimori to discredit Castillo. Some news media disseminated fake news against Castillo according to the Guardian. While news organizations polished Fujimori's image and praised her, they assisted her media campaign tactic which included attacks accusing Castillo of being linked to armed communist groups. She described Castillo as a "car bomb" destined to "explode the last 30 years of development." Billboards were posted in Lima to call on Peruvians "to vote against communism." The Guardian described accusations linking Castillo to Shining Path as "incorrect", while the Associated Press said that allegations by Peruvian media of links to Shining Path were "unsupported."

Censorship allegations

Colombian journalist Clara Elvira Ospina of Grupo who was the journalistic director of La República's América Televisión and El Comercio's Canal N was removed from her position on 24 April 2021 after having served in the position for a total of nine years. Grupo La República shareholder Gustavo Mohme Seminario said that the firing occurred shortly after Ospina had a conversation with Keiko Fujimori and other news editors. One anonymous individual said that Ospina allegedly told Fujimori that the journalistic direction of the media organizations would not favor her or Castillo, instead using impartiality during their coverage.

Mohme criticized the dismissal of Ospina, saying: "I do not want to be a silent troupe of these legal shenanigans that seeks to arbitrarily impose who will assume the reins of the main television channel in the country." Mohme resigned from the editorial council. The Knight Center for Specialized Journalism wrote that Mohme described the incident as self-censorship. Diego Salazar, former editor of Peru21, said that the dismissal was "an obvious sign that you are seeking to intervene in the electoral campaign in a way that is not journalistic." Members of Cuarto Poder, an investigative journalism program on América TV, had their letter to the board of directors leaked in May 2021 where they said that Ospina's dismissal "represented serious damage to the work we do and to the image of the program", and accused her replacement, Gilberto Hume, of having an agenda against Castillo and in favor of Fujimori, writing: "Within that conversation it was implicit that (Hume) asked us to support the candidate of Fuerza Popular to the detriment of the candidate of Free Peru." Luis Galarreta, Fujimori's pick for first vice president, said that the meeting with Ospina was discussing debates and "nothing more", adding that "nobody thinks of influencing a medium."

Shortly after polls closed on 6 June, the journalists of Cuarto Poder who sent a letter criticizing alleged censorship were fired by La República's América Televisión and El Comercio's Canal N.

San Miguel del Ene attack

Main article: San Miguel del Ene attack

Comrade Vilma, with close ties to Comrade José, head of the Militarized Communist Party of Peru (MPCP), a communist organization that split from Shining Path at least ten years before the San Miguel del Ene attack, called for a boycott of elections on 14 May. During the second round of elections, Vilma called on voters not to vote for Fujimori, stating that anyone who voted for her would be the "accomplice of genociders and the corrupt."

On 23 May, a mass killing of eighteen people occurred in San Miguel del Ene, a rural area in the Vizcatán del Ene District of Satipo Province. Along with the corpses, some of which were burned, leaflets signed by the MPCP were found, featuring the hammer and sickle and defining the attack as a social cleansing operation. The leaflets also called for a boycott of the 6 June elections and accused those who voted for Keiko Fujimori and her Popular Force party of treason. The military quickly accused Shining Path of the attack, although they were allegedly referring to the MCPC. However, no formal investigation had been performed before the links to Shining Path were claimed. OjoPúblico described the media release by the military as "an inaccurate reference to the Shining Path."

The attack and subsequent media coverage would provide increased support for Fujimori, whose rhetoric aligned Castillo with armed communists. The Fujimori campaign used the attack as a springboard for support, pointing to alleged ties between MOVADEF, a Shining Path political group, and Castillo, attempting to align him to the attack. Fujimori expressed condemnation against the attack during a press conference in Tarapoto as well as regret that "bloody acts" still happened in the country and her condolences to the relatives of the victims. Pedro Castillo also condemned the killings during a rally in Huánuco, expressing solidarity towards the relatives of the victims and also urging the National Police to investigate the attack to clarify the events. Vladimir Cerrón, Secretary General of Free Peru, stated that "the right-wing needed [Shining] Path to win"; Cerrón deleted the tweet moments later while condemning any act of terrorism. Prime Minister Nuria Esparch, who held the position of the Ministry of Defense, condemned the attack and guaranteed that the electoral process would take place normally.

Claims of fraud

To avoid the questions of election legitimacy, election authorities in Peru approved the use of election monitoring. In total, one hundred and fifty observers (ninety-nine in Peru and fifty-one abroad) were approved to observe elections throughout Peru. The origin of the observers were from twenty-two different countries, with thirty-five observers from the Organization of American States, while others were from Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Spain, Switzerland, the United States, and Uruguay. Observer approval required providing election authorities observation plans; these plans included protocols to inform authorities of crimes, violations of electoral law or any complaints they collected. Observers were then responsible with providing an official, final report to authorities. According to OjoPúblico, "the observers carry out the review of the activities of election day, ranging from the installation of the voting tables, the conditioning of the secret chambers, the conformity of the ballots, the minutes, the amphorae and any other electoral material, to the counting, the counting of the vote and the transfer of the electoral records at the end of the day."

After Castillo took the lead during the ballot-counting process, Fujimori disseminated unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud. In a media event following election day, Fujimori alleged that a "series of irregularities which worry us", while presenting photographs and videos in support of her allegations, accusing Free Peru of attempting to "distort and delay" the election process. According to The Guardian, various international observers countered Fujimori's claims, stating that the election process was conducted in accordance with international standards. Observers from the Inter-American Union of Electoral Organizations, the Organization of American States, and the Progressive International denied any instances of widespread fraud and praised the accuracy of the elections. The Guardian also reported that analysts and political observers criticized Fujimori's remarks, noting that it made her appear desperate after losing her third presidential run in a ten-year period. Fernando Tuesta, political scientist from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, stated, "It's extremely regrettable that when the result is not favourable, that the candidate talks about fraud. It's terrible, ... They have been talking about fraud because they don’t want to respect the result." On 9 June, Fujimori sought to have around 200,000 votes annulled and for 300,000 votes to be reviewed. On 17 June, Fujimori repeated claims of voter fraud.

Overturn attempts

The election will be flipped, dear friends

—Keiko Fujimori

Fujimori's statements about possibly overturning the election were described as being inspired by the attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election by former U.S. president Donald Trump. Rumors spread of a possible coup d'état against Castillo if he were declared the official winner of the presidential election. A letter signed by almost one-hundred retired officers of the Peruvian armed forces was written calling on current military leaders in Peru to refuse recognizing the election of Castillo into the presidency. President Francisco Sagasti condemned the letter, stating "They want to incite top commanders of the Army, Navy, and Air force to break the rule of law".

According to Cornell University professor of Latin American politics Kenneth Roberts, “When the credibility is called into question the way it has been by Trump and the Republicans in the U.S., it creates a bad example that other leaders and countries can follow, providing a template to change results they don’t like". Former Bolivian President Evo Morales condemned Fujimori for attacking democracy and compared the situation to the 2019 Bolivian political crisis.

Results

President

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. The first exit polls published indicated that underdog nominee 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. Yonhy Lescano, Rafael López Aliaga, Verónika Mendoza, George Forsyth followed, with each receiving 11.0%, 10.5%, 8.8%, and 6.4%, respectively. 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.

In the second round Castillo defeated Fujimori by just 44,240 votes, winning by 50.13% to 49.87%, although an official outcome is yet to be declared by the National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE).

Candidate		Party	First round		Second round
			Votes	%	Votes	%
	Pedro Castillo	Free Peru	2,724,752	18.92	8,835,970	50.13
	Keiko Fujimori	Popular Force	1,930,762	13.41	8,791,730	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	17,627,700	100.00
Valid votes			14,400,630	81.30	17,627,700	93.48
Invalid/blank votes			3,313,086	18.70	1,229,118	6.52
Total votes			17,713,716	100.00	18,856,818	100.00
Registered voters/turnout			25,287,954	70.05	25,287,954	74.57
Source: ONPE, ONPE

First Round Pedro Castillo   18.92% Keiko Fujimori   13.41% Rafael López Aliaga   11.75% Hernando de Soto   11.63% Yonhy Lescano   9.07% Verónika Mendoza   7.86% César Acuña   6.02% George Forsyth   5.66% Daniel Urresti   5.64% Others   10.04%

Second Round Pedro Castillo   50.13% Keiko Fujimori   49.87%

By department

2021 Peruvian presidential election results – First round by Department

Department	Castillo Free Peru		Fujimori Popular Force		López Aliaga Popular Renewal		De Soto Go on Country		Lescano Popular Action		Mendoza Together for Peru		Other candidates		Valid votes	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)

Congress

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 while attaining no representation. The 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. New or previously minor parties such as 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. 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.

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/blank votes		4,863,287	27.44
Total votes		17,722,616	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		25,287,954	70.08
Source: ONPE, Ojo Público

Popular vote Free Peru   13.41% Popular Force   11.34% Popular Renewal   9.33% Popular Action   9.02% APP   7.54% Go on Country   7.54% Together for Peru   6.59% We Are Peru   6.13% Podemos   5.83% Purple Party   5.42% National Victory   4.96% FREPAP   4.58% Union for Peru   2.07% Other   6.24%

Seats in Congress Free Peru   28.46% Popular Force   18.46% Popular Action   12.31% APP   11.54% Popular Renewal   10.00% Go on Country   5.38% Together for Peru   3.85% We Are Peru   3.85% Podemos Perú   3.85% Purple Party   2.31%

Andean Parliament

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Free Peru	1,713,196	16.24	1	+1
	Popular Force	1,249,938	11.85	1	–2
	Popular Renewal	1,094,709	10.37	1	+1
	Popular Action	964,563	9.14	1	+1
	Go on Country – Social Integration Party	919,212	8.71	1	+1
	Podemos Perú	747,303	7.08	0	0
	Together for Peru	736,001	6.97	0	0
	Alliance for Progress	713,542	6.76	0	0
	Agricultural People's Front of Peru	670,393	6.35	0	0
	Purple Party	582,904	5.52	0	0
	We Are Peru	447,437	4.24	0	0
	Christian People's Party	209,697	1.99	0	0
	Peruvian Nationalist Party	177,984	1.69	0	0
	Broad Front	127,844	1.21	0	–1
	National United Renaissance	101,822	0.96	0	0
	Direct Democracy	95,594	0.91	0	0
Total		10,552,139	100.00	5	0
Valid votes		10,552,139	59.73
Invalid/blank votes		7,112,968	40.27
Total votes		17,665,107	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		25,212,354	70.07
Source: ONPE