Overview
- The Electoral Service’s preliminary tally put Jeannette Jara near 26.6% to José Antonio Kast’s roughly 24%, leaving both short of the 50% needed to win outright.
- Chile will hold the runoff on December 14 under new rules that made voting compulsory with automatic registration.
- Provisional legislative returns indicate right-leaning blocs are on track to control both chambers, with reported counts pointing to about 29 of 50 senators and roughly 78 of 155 deputies.
- Kast secured endorsements for the runoff from Johannes Kaiser and Evelyn Matthei, while Franco Parisi withheld an endorsement.
- Jara, a former labor minister in Gabriel Boric’s government and a longtime Communist Party figure, leads a left coalition into a rare runoff as campaigns center on security, migration and the economy.