Peru’s electoral board confirms June 7 presidential runoff
Presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori, of the Popular Force party, waves to supporters in San Juan de Lurigancho district in Lima, Peru, Saturday, May 9, 2026.
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LIMA, Peru — Peruvian electoral authorities confirmed on Sunday the official results of the first round of the presidential elections in early April, with Keiko Fujimori and Roberto Sánchez advancing to the runoff on June 7.
The final vote count was released Friday, but it had to be confirmed by Peru’s National Elections Board to set the second round as none of the candidates received more than half the valid votes.
The 50-year-old congresswoman Fujimori, the daughter of the late President Alberto Fujimori and candidate for Fuerza Popular, gathered 2.8 million votes, or 17.19% of the total. She reached a presidential runoff for the fourth time.
Sánchez, of Juntos por el Perú party and a former foreign trade minister under former President Pedro Castillo, got 2.015 million votes, or 12.03%.
Both beat 33 other candidates with promises to put an end to surging crime, the top priority for Peruvians whose country’s mining-driven economy has proved resilient to political instability.
More than 70% of voters did not chose either Fujimori or Sánchez in the first round, meaning both candidates will have to form coalitions if they hope to win in the runoff.
Peru has been embroiled in a long political crisis that has seen eight presidents come and go in nearly a decade of clashes between Parliament and the executive branch, and protests that left 50 demonstrators dead between 2022 and 2023.
When you look at the 50-year-old congresswoman Fujimori, the daughter of the late President Alberto Fujimori and candidate for Fuerza Popular, gathered 2.8 million votes, or 17.19% of the total, the implications are hard to ignore.
San Juan has been pushing this agenda for a while now.
On one hand presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori, of the Popular Force party, waves to supporters in San Juan de Lurigancho district in Lima, Peru, Saturday, May 9, 2026. But at the same time the final vote count was released Friday, but it had to be confirmed by Peru’s National Elections Board to set the second round as none of the candidates received more than half the valid votes.
The detail about both beat 33 other candidates with promises to put an end to surging crime, the top priority for Peruvians whose country’s mining-driven economy has proved resilient to political instability is something people should sit with.
2.8 million. The real figures are likely much higher.
2.8 million is hard to ignore, no matter which side you are on.
2.015 million is hard to ignore, no matter which side you are on.
Think about it: presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori, of the Popular Force party, waves to supporters in San Juan de Lurigancho district in Lima, Peru, Saturday, May 9, 2026. That speaks volumes.
Hard to look at 2.8 million and not question the official narrative.
Basically the final vote count was released Friday, but it had to be confirmed by Peru’s National Elections Board to set the second round as none of the candidates received more than half the valid votes. What matters is whether anything changes because of it.
Considering the final vote count was released Friday, but it had to be confirmed by Peru’s National Elections Board to set the second round as none of the candidates received more than half the valid votes, it raises some real questions about what happens next.
The bigger issue here is both beat 33 other candidates with promises to put an end to surging crime, the top priority for Peruvians whose country’s mining-driven economy has proved resilient to political instability. That changes the calculation.
The bigger issue here is sánchez, of Juntos por el Perú party and a former foreign trade minister under former President Pedro Castillo, got 2.015 million votes, or 12.03%. That changes the calculation.
Sánchez, of Juntos por el Perú party and a former foreign trade minister under former President Pedro Castillo, got 2.015 million votes, or 12.03%. Meanwhile both beat 33 other candidates with promises to put an end to surging crime, the top priority for Peruvians whose country’s mining-driven economy has proved resilient to political instability.
In other words the final vote count was released Friday, but it had to be confirmed by Peru’s National Elections Board to set the second round as none of the candidates received more than half the valid votes. Curious to see how this develops.