Overview
- Official partial results from the national electoral body show Keiko Fujimori at about 50.097% and Roberto Sánchez at about 49.903%, a margin near 35,000 votes in provisional tallies.
- Counting of roughly 300,000 ballots cast by Peruvians abroad swung the provisional result toward Fujimori because she won a large share of the diaspora vote.
- Authorities still need to review some 256,000 contested polling records before certifying a winner, and that review is the immediate reason final results remain unproclaimed.
- Both campaigns have filed targeted annulment requests—Sánchez asked to cancel ballots from 647 U.S. stations and Fujimori asked to annul about 7,000 votes in rural Puno—and Sánchez’s party has called protests in Lima alleging opacity and irregularities.
- International observers described the runoff as calm, while the close outcome has reopened a heated national debate over expatriate voting rights and raised questions about political stability and investor confidence in Peru.