page_title: 2006 Peruvian general election
section_title: First round
hierarchical_section_title: 2006 Peruvian general election / Results / President / First round
caption_attribution_description: Geographic distribution of 1st round votes in Peru's 2006 presidential election. Based on and adapted from Image:Elecciones Presidenciales 2006 (Perú, 1ª vuelta).png and Image:Segunda Elección Presidencial 2006 (Perú).png, quantitative data available at [1].
context_page_description: General elections were held in Peru in 2006. On 9 April, voting took place for the President, two Vice-Presidents, 120 members of the Congress, and five Peruvian members of the Andean Parliament, for the 2006–2011 period. As the no presidential candidate received a majority of the vote, a second round was held on 4 June between the top two candidates, Ollanta Humala and Alan García. Garcia won the run-off with 52.62% to Humala's 47.37%. He was subsequently inaugurated on 28 July 2006, Peruvian National Day.
context_section_description: Ollanta Humala obtained local victories in 18 departments and came in first place with 30.6% of valid votes. Alan García, who had been trailing Lourdes Flores in opinion polls for most of the campaign, defeated her by a narrow margin for the second runoff spot, with 24.3% against her 23.8%, much like in the 2001 election.
  Support for Humala was weaker in the more densely populated coast and stronger in the more rural Andes and jungle, which prevented him from obtaining a larger advantage and stopped him too far from the 50% needed to avoid a runoff. Humala's stronghold was the southern part of the Andes, one of the poorer and less developed regions of Peru, which appeared to place its hopes on the "outsider" candidate; that is, the one not associated with the traditional political class.
  Flores won in the department of Lima and among voters abroad, which together accounted for 36.8% of eligible voters. However, she failed to win elsewhere, while García won in 5 departments along the central and northern coast, as well as Callao, and most decisively in La Libertad, his party's traditional stronghold.
  The official vote count progress was very slow and the race for the second place was so tight that Flores did not concede defeat until 3 May, 24 days after the First Round, and questioned the transparency and competence of the electoral authorities.
caption: Geographic distribution of First Round votes, by winning candidate. Globe represents voters abroad.
     Ollanta Humala, >50% valid votes   Ollanta Humala, <50% valid votes   Alan García, >50%   Alan García, <50%   Lourdes Flores, >50%   Lourdes Flores, <50%
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