Overview
- Exit and quick polls late Sunday put Keiko Fujimori in first place at about 16% to 17%, with several contenders bunched close behind for the second spot in the June 7 runoff.
- An early official tally from the electoral authority showed Fujimori narrowly ahead with roughly 37% of votes counted, with Rafael López Aliaga close behind, highlighting how fluid the race remains.
- Following Sunday’s ballot delivery failures at many polling places, officials extended voting by one hour nationwide and approved a Monday revote for about 63,300 registered voters in Lima as well as Peruvians in Orlando, Florida, and Paterson, New Jersey.
- ONPE, the national election office, blamed a private subcontractor for not delivering voting materials, which kept some sites closed for hours and left many voters in long lines without ballots.
- Security dominated the campaign as homicides roughly doubled and extortion cases surged in recent years, and Peruvians also elected a reestablished Senate that can remove a president with 40 of 60 votes, raising the stakes for whoever governs next.