Overview
- Official Servel results show Jara with about 26.6% and Kast with roughly 24.1% in the first round.
- No candidate crossed the 50% threshold, sending the race to a second round after a campaign of less than four weeks.
- Evelyn Matthei congratulated Kast and moved toward his camp, and Johannes Kaiser endorsed him as Franco Parisi’s strong third-place finish reshaped the vote math.
- Partial returns from concurrent legislative elections point to a likely right-leaning edge in the next Congress, with final seat distributions still pending.
- The runoff pits Jara’s progressive program — including a proposed universal ‘Ingreso Vital’ and lower healthcare costs — against Kast’s hardline plans on immigration and security and socially conservative positions.