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2020 Peruvian parliamentary election

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All 130 seats in the Congress of Peru 66 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered	24,812,087
Turnout	74.07% ( 20.83pp)
First party Second party Third party   File:César Acuña Peralta - CAP.jpg File:Ezequiel Jonás Ataucusi Molina.jpg Leader Mesías Guevara César Acuña Jonás Ataucusi Party Popular Action Alliance for Progress FREPAP Leader since 30 November 2014 8 December 2001 21 July 2000 Leader's seat Did not stand Did not stand Did not stand Last election 5 seats, 7.20% 8 seats, (APP) Did not contest Seats won 25 22 15 Seat change 20 14 15 Popular vote 1,518,171 1,178,020 1,240,084 Percentage 10.26% 7.96% 8.38% Swing 3.06% – 8.38%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Keiko Fujimori José Vega José Luna (acting) Party Popular Force Union for Peru Podemos Perú Leader since 22 July 2009 21 March 2004 1 October 2018 Leader's seat Inabilited Lima Did not stand Last election 73 seats, 36.34% Did not contest New Seats won 15 13 11 Seat change 58 13 11 Popular vote 1,081,174 1,001,716 1,240,716 Percentage 7.31% 6.77% 8.38% Swing 29.03% 6.77% –   Seventh party Eighth party Ninth party   File:JulioGuzmanperu.png Leader Rosa Patricia Li Julio Guzmán Marco Arana Party We Are Peru Purple Party Broad Front Leader since 1 March 2015 18 November 2017 21 June 2013 Leader's seat Did not stand Did not stand Cajamarca (lost) Last election 0 seats, (APP) New 20 seats, 13.94% Seats won 11 9 9 Seat change 11 9 11 Popular vote 895,700 1,095,491 911,701 Percentage 6.05% 7.40% 6.16% Swing – New 7.78%
Results of the election.

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Early parliamentary elections were held in Peru on 26 January 2020. The elections were called after President Martín Vizcarra constitutionally dissolved the Congress of the Republic on 30 September 2019.

All 130 congressmen corresponding to the 26 electoral districts were elected to office for the remainder of the 2016–2021 congressional period. It was the seventh parliamentary election under the 1993 Constitution, which created the current Congress of the Republic of Peru.

Background

On 30 September 2019, the President of the Council of Ministers, Salvador del Solar, set forth a vote of confidence before the Congress for refusing to pass a bill that modified the election process of judges of the Constitutional Court. The vote of confidence sought to stop the election of magistrates, modify the Organic Law of the Constitutional Court and the designation of the tribunes. However, the Plenary Session of Congress decided to continue with the election of magistrates, and ignored the vote of confidence presented by Del Solar. President Martín Vizcarra considered this a vote of no confidence in his Cabinet, and proceeded with the dissolution of Congress and the call for new elections according to Article 134 of the constitution:

The President of the Republic is empowered to dissolve the Congress if it has censured or voted down two Councils of Ministers.

The decree of dissolution also called for new congressional elections to replace the existing congress. Under the law, elections are to be held within four months of the date of dissolution, without altering the pre-existing electoral system, and the Congress cannot be dissolved in the last year of the congressional term, which would be 2021. Once the Congress is dissolved, the Permanent Congressional Committee still remains in operation, which cannot be dissolved.

Schedule

The schedule of activities of the congressional elections of Peru of 2020:

Electoral system

The 130 members of Congress are elected in 26 multi-member constituencies using open list proportional representation. To enter Congress, parties must either cross the 5% electoral threshold at the national level, or win at least seven seats in one constituency. Seats are allocated using the D'Hondt method.

Results

The election was the most divided in Peruvian history, with no party receiving more than 11% of the vote. The Fujimorist Popular Force, the largest party in the previous legislature, lost most of its seats, and the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA) had its worst ever election result, failing to win a seat for the first time since before the 1963 elections. New or previously minor parties such as Podemos Perú, the Purple Party and the Agricultural People's Front had good results. Contigo, the successor to former president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski's Peruvians for Change party, failed to win a seat and received only around 1% of the vote. The result was seen as representative of public support for president Martín Vizcarra's anti-corruption reform proposals.

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
bgcolor=Template:Popular Action (Peru)/meta/color|	Popular Action	1,518,171	10.26	25	+20
	Podemos Perú	1,240,716	8.38	11	New
	Agricultural People's Front	1,240,084	8.38	15	New
	Alliance for Progress	1,178,020	7.96	22
	Purple Party	1,095,491	7.40	9	New
bgcolor=Template:Popular Force/meta/color|	Popular Force	1,081,174	7.31	15	–58
bgcolor=Template:Union for Peru/meta/color|	Union for Peru	1,001,716	6.77	13	New
	Broad Front	911,701	6.16	9	–11
	We Are Peru	895,700	6.05	11
	Together for Peru	710,462	4.80	0	New
bgcolor=Template:Christian People's Party (Peru)/meta/color|	Christian People's Party	590,378	3.99	0	0
	Direct Democracy	543,956	3.68	0	0
	Free Peru	502,898	3.40	0	New
bgcolor=Template:American Popular Revolutionary Alliance/meta/color|	Peruvian Aprista Party	402,330	2.72	0	–5
	Go on Country	373,113	2.52	0	New
	Peru Secure Nation	350,121	2.37	0	New
	Go Peru	311,413	2.10	0	New
	National United Renaissance	265,564	1.79	0	New
bgcolor=Template:National Solidarity Party (Peru)/meta/color|	National Solidarity Party	221,123	1.49	0	New
	Peru Nation	206,128	1.39	0	New
	Contigo	158,120	1.07	0	New
Invalid/blank votes		3,570,709	–	–	–
Total		18,369,088	100	130	0
Registered voters/turnout		24,812,087	74.07	–	–
Source: ONPE

Notes

1. Compared to the turnout for just the Congressional elections in the 2016 general election
2. ^ Part of the Alliance for the Progress of Peru coalition in the 2016 general election

References

1. Governor of Cajamarca
2. Former Congressman for La Libertad
3. He announce his temporary resignation to the Party leadership during the election
4. ^ Peru’s political storm: a timeline of events Los Angeles Times, 4 October 2019
5. "Disolución del Congreso | Martín Vizcarra | 84% de peruanos apoya la disolución del Congreso". RPP (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-10-07.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
6. "Peru's president dissolves Congress to push through anti-corruption reforms". The Guardian. 1 October 2019. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 1 October 2019.
7. "Peru's vice-president resigns amid power struggle". BBC News. 2 October 2019. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
8. Peru IFES
9. Resultados Congresales ONPE

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