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Andean Equity Strategy Peru Election: If Vote Split per Province Remains Stable, Results Should Favor Fujimori
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Andean Equity Strategy Peru Election: If Vote Split per Province Remains Stable, Results Should Favor Fujimori
J P M O R G A N Global Markets Strategy
09 June 2026
Andean Equity Strategy
Peru Election: If Vote Split per Province Remains
Stable, Results Should Favor Fujimori
The results of the second round of the Peruvian election are becoming the LatAm Equity Strategy
ACdefinition of a “photo finish.” Just a few thousand votes are separating the two Diego Celedon
candidates, in an election with almost 20 million votes. In this context, we will (56-22) 425-5245
probably have to wait until all votes have been counted and accounted for before diego.celedon@jpmorgan.com
having certainty about the winner. At the time of this publication, almost 96% of Inversiones J.P. Morgan Limitada
the votes have been processed, and there is a roughly 20,000 vote advantage for the Emy Shayo Cherman
left-wing candidate, Sanchez. Nonetheless, the big discrepancy in vote preference (55-11) 4950-6684
emy.shayo@jpmorgan.com
per region and the disparity between the percentage of votes counted in each region Banco J.P. Morgan S.A.
makes us believe that this outcome could change. If we assume that the 196
Adrian E Huerta
provinces in the country keep the current vote split stable, and also considering the (52-81) 8152-8720
same vote split per province for the vote tallies sent to the Electoral Court, right- adrian.huerta@jpmorgan.com
wing candidate Fujimori would win by an advantage of almost 90,000 votes. This J.P. Morgan Casa de Bolsa, S.A. de C.V., J.P.
implies that the race is still open and that the next few days will likely continue to Morgan Grupo Financiero
be characterized by market volatility as the vote count progresses. As we have
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