2026 Peruvian general election
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General elections are scheduled to be held in Peru on 12 April 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, which will return to being a bicameral legislature with a 60-seat Senate and 130-seat Chamber of Deputies.
Electoral system
[edit]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 the Chamber of Deputies 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]
Presidential candidates
[edit]Declared
[edit]- Hernando De Soto, former presidential nominee in the 2021 (Let’s Progress).[10]
- Alfonso López-Chau, current Rector of the National University of Engineering (Now Nation).[11]
Potential
[edit]- Guido Bellido, former Prime Minister of Peru in 2021 (Conscience People).[12]
- Roque Benavides, Chairman of Compañía de Minas Buenaventura (Peruvian Aprista Party).[13]
- Alberto Fujimori, former President of Peru from 1990 to 2000 (Popular Force).[14]
- Antauro Humala, former army major and Ethnocacerist leader (ANTAURO).[15]
- Rafael López Aliaga, current Mayor of Lima and former presidential nominee in 2021 (Popular Renewal).[16]
- Verónika Mendoza, former Member of Congress from 2011 and 2016 and former presidential nominee in 2016 and 2021 (New Peru).[17]
Declined
[edit]- Keiko Fujimori,[a] former First Lady of Peru, presidential nominee in 2011, 2016, and 2021 (Popular Force).
Opinion polls
[edit]Presidential election
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Notes
[edit]- ^ 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.[18]
References
[edit]- ^ "Peru Congress opens door to early elections amid unrest". AP NEWS. 20 December 2022. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Peru Archived 22 April 2021 at the Wayback Machine IFES
- ^ Resultados Congresales Archived 31 January 2020 at the Wayback Machine ONPE
- ^ "Andean Parliament". International Democracy Watch. Archived from the original on 7 June 2021. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
- ^ "Hernando de Soto confirma que buscará ser candidato presidencial: "Me estoy afiliando al partido Progresemos"". El Comercio (in European Spanish). 6 July 2024. Retrieved 4 August 2024.
- ^ "Alfonso López Chau: Ahora Nación, partido del rector de la UNI, logra su inscripción en el JNE". La República (in European Spanish). 27 July 2024. Retrieved 4 August 2024.
- ^ "Guido Bellido sobre posible postulación a la Presidencia: "Tengo toda la motivación para asumir cualquier tarea"". Radio Programas del Perú (in European Spanish). 2 August 2024. Retrieved 4 August 2024.
- ^ "Roque Benavides mantiene en suspenso candidatura presidencial". Altavoz (in European Spanish). 26 July 2024. Retrieved 4 August 2024.
- ^ Orozco, Jose. "Former Peru Leader Fujimori to Run for President, Daughter Says". Bloomberg. Bloomberg. Retrieved 16 July 2024.
- ^ Associated Press (6 September 2022). "Exmilitar rebelde dice postulará para la presidencia de Perú". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 4 August 2024.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Nuevo Perú busca alianzas y no descarta que Verónika Mendoza sea su candidata". Gestión (in European Spanish). 14 July 2024. Retrieved 4 August 2024.
- ^ "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.