Overview
- Roughly 15.7 million Chileans are required to cast ballots, with fines for abstention and an estimated five million mostly young first-time voters adding uncertainty.
- Pre‑election surveys put Jara near 30% with Kast around 22% and Kaiser in the high teens, indicating no first‑round majority and a likely December 14 runoff.
- Public anxiety over crime and migration dominated the campaign as frustration with the Boric government approached 70% disapproval in recent polling.
- Kast emphasized a hardline security agenda and campaigned behind armored glass and a bulletproof vest, while Kaiser proposed mass expulsions of undocumented migrants and other far‑right measures.
- All 155 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 23 of 50 Senate seats are also being contested, positioning the new Congress as pivotal for the next president’s agenda.