With 4.5% of the ballots counted, the right-wing Keiko Fujimori leads with 53.4% of the votes, while the communist Roberto Sánchez reaches 46.6%, in the context of the runoff that will determine the next president of Peru.
Despite this initial advantage, the vast majority of the ballots still need to be processed, so the final result remains open.
The counting, which is taking place in real time under the supervision of the National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE), will allow for tracking the evolution of the vote across the country and determining which candidate prevails in this second presidential round.
On this election day, more than 27 million Peruvians were eligible to go to the polls and choose the next president of the country, in a context of strong political polarization and high expectations for the final result.
The election follows a first round held on April 12, in which Keiko Fujimori received 2,877,678 valid votes (17.19%), while Roberto Sánchez obtained 2,015,114 valid votes (12.03%). These results allowed both candidates to advance to the runoff.
According to the Organic Law of Elections, the candidate who receives the majority of valid votes will be proclaimed president for the term 2026–2031, becoming the tenth head of state of Peru in the last ten years, amid marked institutional instability.
As the counting progresses, the electoral map will show in which regions support for each candidate consolidates, in an election that will define the political and economic direction of the country in the coming years.
