Overview
- The ONPE count, which reached roughly 99% between Oct. 6 and Oct. 8, shows Alfredo Zegarra leading with 25.2% and Jenry Huisa second with 14.4%, so neither cleared the 30% threshold required to win outright.
- Zegarra faces multiple judicial cases including a May 2025 conviction for aggravated collusion that was later annulled and a pending new trial plus an investigation for alleged illicit enrichment.
- Huisa carries about 17 fiscal investigations from his time as mayor of Majes, failed to win his home district where he placed third, and is now seeking provincial alliances while promoting projects such as finishing stalled hospitals.
- Other regional outcomes remain unsettled because electoral authorities must resolve 45 observed actas in Cusco that could change whether Verónika Mendoza wins in the first round and a Fiscalía report says about 90% of material was destroyed in San Juan de Bigote, Piura so no valid result can be produced there while investigations continue.
- ONPE projections already map likely regional‑council seats in Arequipa and several other regions, and reporting shows a wider pattern of leading candidates nationwide carrying sentences or fiscal complaints, a dynamic that could limit governance capacity and trigger legal challenges after the election.