Peru Regional and Municipal Elections: ONPE Updates Official Results and Vote Counts
- Fifteen days after the regional and municipal elections concluded in Peru, the capital city of Lima remains without a confirmed mayor, El Comercio Perú reported.
- The electoral standoff centers on 1,201 voting records awaiting review by local electoral juries due to challenges or requests for nullification, according to data from Gestión.
- Carlos Bruce (Somos Perú) sits third with 15.161%, translating to 813,094 votes, leaving him out of contention for the top spot.
Fifteen days after the regional and municipal elections concluded in Peru, the capital city of Lima remains without a confirmed mayor, El Comercio Perú reported. The delay leaves the mayoral office for the 2027–2030 term unresolved while electoral tribunals review disputed voter sheets.
Contested Ballots Delay Lima Mayoralty
The electoral standoff centers on 1,201 voting records awaiting review by local electoral juries due to challenges or requests for nullification, according to data from Gestión. Rafael López Aliaga (Renovación Popular) leads the count with 27.776%, representing 1′489,648 votes, while Francis Allison (Avanza País) follows closely with 26.822%, or 1′438,479 votes. The narrow margin of 51,169 votes is complicated by the pending records, which account for between 250,000 and 300,000 ballots.
Carlos Bruce (Somos Perú) sits third with 15.161%, translating to 813,094 votes, leaving him out of contention for the top spot.
Regional Results Finalized Across Ten Jurisdictions
While the capital waits, the National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE) has finished processing 100% of the voting records for regional governors and vice governors in 10 jurisdictions, as reported by Perú 21. Only three of those regions decided their executive leadership outright. Elvyn Samuel Díaz Tello (Ahora Nación) won Apurímac with 37.691%, Pabel Néstor Bellido Miranda (Libertad Popular) captured Ayacucho with 35.117%, and Pedro Carmelo Spadaro Philipps (Renovación Popular Perú) secured the Callao regional government with 51.664%.
The remaining seven regions failed to produce a winner meeting the 30% legal threshold, forcing runoffs between the top two contenders. Similar second rounds await voters in Junín, where Fernando Pool Orihuela Rojas (Podemos Perú, 29.002%) and Arnoldo Dante Mallma Auqui (Alianza para el Progreso, 27.079%) face off, as well as in Moquegua, Pasco, Puno, Tacna, where Segundo Mario Ruiz Rubio (Alianza para el Progreso, 29.337%) and Walter Anchapuri Zapata (Ahora Nación, 17.610%) advance, and Tumbes, where Carlos Manuel Rolando Feijoo Ruiz (Fe en el Perú, 28.974%) and Luis Constantino Arévalo Guerrero (Somos Perú, 20.268%) meet.
Metropolitan Districts Confirm Local Victories
At the district level within Lima Metropolitana, the ONPE has finalized counts for several jurisdictions, according to RPP Noticias. In Punta Hermosa, Max Ampuero (Somos Perú) captured the virtual mayoralty with 18.246% of the valid vote, alongside the Partido Popular Cristiano (PPC) with 15.379% and Alianza para el Progreso with 12.159%. Felipe Castillo Alfaro (Avanza País) secured Los Olivos with 23.660%—against Renovación Popular at 21.929% and Somos Perú at 14.451%—defeating rival lists that included a faction led by his son, the incumbent district mayor, across six prior periods consisting of five consecutive terms between 1996 and 2014 and a fifth period between 2019 and 2022.
Other district outcomes show William Salazar Mateo winning Cieneguilla for Renovación Popular with 37.885%, Juan Carlos Zurek taking La Molina for Somos Perú with 36.351%, and Rosa Torrejón winning Lurín for Renovación Popular with 29.030%. Guillermo Pomez rounded out victories by taking Pachacámac for Somos Perú with 51.615% of the vote.
Tribunals Process Remaining Observation Records
Figures from the JNE show that the 91 Special Electoral Juries have processed 97.15% of the 7,235 observation expedientes generated by decentralised offices, out of 7,235 total expedientes generated from observed records sent by the Decentralised Offices of Electoral Processes (ODPE). The JEE have additionally ordered vote recounts across 937 expedientes.
The timeline for resolving Lima’s mayoral race depends on the remaining jury decisions and any subsequent appeals taken to the full bench of the Jurado Nacional de Elecciones, which issues final rulings on contested acts before official credentials can be issued.