More than a month after the elections, the National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE) completed the 100% calculation of the results of the Lima municipal election, thus confirming that the Renovación Popular party, which has Rafael López Aliaga as its candidate for first councilor, obtained first place with 27,685% of the valid votes, while Avanza País, with which Francis Allison ran for Mayor, came in second place with 26,811%.
On the afternoon of this Saturday, November 14, the ONPE reported that the total calculation of results in Lima had been completed, after incorporating the votes recorded in the last of the observed minutes that remained pending and which had to be passed to the scope of the National Elections Jury (JNE) for the collation or recount of votes. This corresponded to Villa María del Triunfo.
Only four groups managed to exceed 5% of the valid votes. The first two were joined, in third place, by Somos Perú (15,088%) and, in fourth place, Podemos Perú (8,023%).
In addition, the electoral authority also indicated that, on average, 77.2% participation and 22.8% absenteeism were recorded. That is, almost 1.8 million voters did not go to vote in Lima.
The districts where there was the highest participation, as reported by ONPE, were Cieneguilla (81.5%), Villa El Salvador (80.6%) and Santa Anita (80.5%). At the other extreme, the districts where the lowest participation was recorded were San Isidro (66.8%), Miraflores (67.2%) and San Borja (73.3%).
Everything that is coming
The arrival at 100% of the count only makes official a panorama that was already glimpsed weeks ago, but that had been slowed down due to the procedures and legal deadlines that the minutes observed had to follow to raise observations before the Special Electoral Juries (JEE) and the JNE itself.
Allison himself recognized, in an interview with The Commerce on October 30, that the results were already irreversible and “I have not won the elections, I am clear about that.”
However, the situation of López Aliaga, former mayor of Lima who is now running as first councilor, added another element of uncertainty. Only on November 6, the JNE established a criterion that will be binding, although the candidate himself announced that he will take the case to the Judiciary.
As explained to The Commerce the lawyer José Manuel Villalobos, specialist in constitutional and electoral law, although 100% has been reached, there is still a section missing in the JNE.
He specified that, after reaching this percentage, the result will be communicated and the Special Electoral Jury of Lima Center must convene a hearing to proclaim the winners.
In the case of the Mayor of Lima, Jeanette Alonzo would be proclaimed, following the criteria established by the JNE, according to which those first elected councilors who have been mayors in the previous period will not be proclaimed for that position. Although at the JEE level the list with the positions could be proclaimed as is, the plenary session of the JNE would carry out an ex officio review and the criteria already established would be followed.
Once this is defined – since the JEE proclamation minutes can be appealed for numerical reasons – what continues is the delivery of credentials, the enabling title for the authorities to assume functions on January 1, 2027.
“The electoral schedule ended on October 4. What follows from there, the minutes observed, the resolutions and proclamations, is already within a short period, but as progress is made. It is not that on November 20, for example, the proclamation has to end. It is not established, it is given as the resolution is finished, which is what has happened now”he asserted.
