Peruvian general election, 2016

Peruvian general election, 2016

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Turnout	81.8% (first round) 1.9% 80.06% (run off) 1.74%
Nominee Pedro Pablo Kuczynski Keiko Fujimori Party Peruvians for Change Popular Force Running mate Martín Vizcarra Mercedes Araóz José Chlimper Vladimiro Huaroc States carried 12 15 Popular vote 8,596,937 8,555,880 Percentage 50.12% 49.88%
Ballot results by region.
President before election Ollanta Humala Peru Wins Elected President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski Peruvians for Change

Ollanta Humala
Peru Wins

Pedro Pablo Kuczynski
Peruvians for Change

General elections took place in Peru on 10 April 2016 to determine the president, vice-presidents, composition of the Congress of the Republic of Peru and the Peruvian representatives of the Andean Parliament.

In Congress, Popular Force won in a landslide, taking more than a third of the vote and an absolute majority of 73 out of 130 seats. Behind them in opposition, Peruvians for Change with 18 seats and Broad Front with 20 seats.

In the race for the presidency, incumbent President Ollanta Humala was ineligible to run due to constitutional term limits. Popular Force candidate Keiko Fujimori, daughter of former President Alberto Fujimori, won the first round with almost 40 per cent of the vote but fell short of the 50 per cent majority required to avoid a second round. Peruvians for Change candidate Pedro Pablo Kuczynski narrowly beat Broad Front candidate Verónika Mendoza to compete in the second round, which took place on 5 June 2016. With support from those opposing Fujimori, Kuczynski overturned the first round result and won by a narrow margin of less than half a percentage point. He was sworn in as President on 28 July.

The President of Peru is elected using the two-round system. The first round was held on 10 April and the second on 5 June. The 130 members of the Congress of the Republic are elected in 25 multi-member constituencies using closed list proportional representation.