2016 Peruvian general election

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2016 Peruvian general election

Presidential election
← 2011 10 April 2016 (first round) 5 June 2016 (second round) 2021 →
Turnout	81.80% (first round) 80.09% (second round)
Nominee Pedro Pablo Kuczynski Keiko Fujimori Party PPK Popular Force Running mate Martín Vizcarra Mercedes Aráoz José Chlimper Vladimiro Huaroc [es][a] Popular vote 8,596,937 8,555,880 Percentage 50.12% 49.88%
Results of the second round by region (left) and province (right). Darker shades indicate a higher vote share.
President before election Ollanta Humala Peru Wins Elected President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski PPK
Congressional election
← 2011 10 April 2016 2020 →
All 130 seats in the Congress of Peru 66 seats needed for a majority
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/– Popular Force Keiko Fujimori 36.34 73 +36 PPK Pedro Pablo Kuczynski 16.46 18 New Broad Front Marco Arana 13.94 20 New APP César Acuña 9.23 9 +7 Popular Alliance Alan García 8.31 5 +1 Popular Action Mesías Guevara 7.20 5 0 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Results of the Congressional election

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General elections were held 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 the race for the presidency, incumbent President Ollanta Humala was ineligible for re-election due to constitutional term limits. Popular Force candidate Keiko Fujimori, daughter of former President Alberto Fujimori, was the leading candidate in 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 finish in second and earn a place in the second round. The run-off was held on 5 June 2016. With support from those opposing Fujimori, Kuczynski won by a narrow margin of less than half a percentage point, making this the first presidential election since 2000 in which the previous election's runner-up candidate failed to secure election. He was sworn in as President on 28 July.

In the Congressional elections, Popular Force won in a landslide, receiving more than a third of the vote and winning an absolute majority of 73 out of 130 seats. Broad Front with 20 seats and Peruvians for Change with 18 seats emerged as the main opposition blocs.
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