The official count of the National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE)both for the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, advances at a slower pace than the presidential results, but in some constituencies it allows us to project who would have a seat in the bicameral era 2026-2031.
Popular Force, Popular Renewal, Together for Peru, Good Government Party and Now Nation are the parties that have guaranteed their representation in Congress. In the case of Obras, Ricardo Belmont’s party would have a seat in the Chamber of Deputies, but its participation in the Senate has yet to be determined, since it did not present lists in up to six regions, and that reduces its electoral reach.
Belmont himself announced his definitive retirement from political life, after learning that the projections do not put him in a second round scenario, and that the estimates for him to enter the Senate are not encouraging either. The former mayor of Lima was running for the Senate for Lima, which has four seats and, at 61% of the minutes counted by the ONPE, those seats would be distributed between Popular Renewal, Good Government Party and Popular Force.
Obras not only appears fifth in the general vote, but among the party’s preferential votes, Belmont (with more than 8,000 votes) appears below Doris Sánchez (more than 9,000 votes) and Iván Dibos (with more than 19,000 votes). The figures will vary, but the distance from Dibos marks a trend in its favor, in case Obras climbs and wins a seat.
—Expectation and celebrations—
In other games, emotions have been mixed. In We Have to Talk, the El Comercio podcast, Lourdes Alcorta indicated that she is prudently waiting for the results of the official count to know whether or not she will win a seat. At 23% of the minutes counted in the National Senate, Renovación Popular is positioned as the group with the greatest projection. Of its list of candidates, the most voted is its presidential candidate Rafael López Aliaga, who registered more than 118 thousand votes for the Senate at the close of this edition. She is followed by Katherine Ampuero, Alejandro Muñante and Alcorta herself.
But not everyone maintains the same caution in the celestial game. Carlos Yalta, candidate for deputy for Callao, published a graphic on Facebook with the phrase “We won”, accompanied by the text: “Callao now has a voice in the Chamber of Deputies! I will work tirelessly for our families and the future of our young people.” At 65% of the minutes counted, Yalta was positioned on its list with higher votes than the current congresswoman Noelia Herrera with a distance of 1,500 votes.
Callao has four seats in deputies and, although Yalta has the most votes, its party appears third in the general panorama below Fuerza Popular and Partido del Buen Gobierno.
Carlos Yalta, Renovación Popular candidate for Callao, launched a Facebook post announcing himself as the winner in the electoral race for deputies.
In the Good Government Party, Jorge Nieto’s group, they are confident that they will achieve representation in Callao, but their greatest attention is in Lima. According to calculations by the Sun Party, they could place up to six deputies in the capital. In the preferential votes, Óscar Reto, number 1 on the list of candidates, has the greatest projection with more than 34 thousand votes at 60% of the tally sheets. She is followed by Nathaly Molina – number 22 on the list – with more than 19 thousand votes, and Luis Quispe and Hilda Fernández with 18 thousand and 17 thousand votes, respectively.
Regarding the Senate, the Good Government Party believes that it will achieve representation with Nora Bonifaz in Lima, and with Flavio Figallo, Patricia Iturregui and Susana Matute for the National Senate.
—Calculations—
For their part, Together for Peru see it as difficult to obtain seats in Lima for deputies, so they are waiting for the results from the interior of the country to define their projections in the Lower House. In the Senate, the leftists consider that they will achieve national representation with José Castillo, brother of the prisoner Pedro Castillo and the current congresswoman Silvana Robles, while they are waiting for the votes of Jaime Quito, Iber Maraví and Anahí Durand.
Fuerza Popular has Cecilia Chacón and Diethell Columbus with good vote projections for deputies in Lima, and they expect good results in regions like Piura, where they estimate obtaining at least four seats. While in the National Senate they have Miguel Torres and Martha Chávez, and in Callao they are planning the regional seat with Jacques Rodrich, Chacón’s husband.
The latter is a disputed seat, where the Popular Renewal legislator, Patricia Chirinos, is also running. With 67% of the minutes counted, the celestial party was in third place in the first port.
The first names for senators and deputies in Congress 2026-2031.
