This is Peru’s Fujimori-controlled Congress for 2016-2021

By June 1, 2016

Below is the complete list of Peru’s 130 legislators organized by party and state who will serve in Congress from 2016 through 2021.

Presidential frontrunner Keiko Fujimori’s right-wing populist party, Popular Force, took a majority of seats over five other political parties which qualified to be seated under Peru’s elections threshold. Fujimori is the favorite to defeat Pedro Pablo Kuczynski in Peru’s presidential runoff election on Sunday, June 5.

Popular Force took 73 seats, or 56%, of the 130-seat legislature. Veronika Mendoza’s left-wing Broad Front is the second-largest party with 20 seats, or 15%. Kuczynski’s center-right Peruvians for Change won 18 seats, or 14%.

Cesar Acuña’s centrist party, Alliance for Progress, took nine seats for 7%. Alfredo Barnechea’s center-left Popular Action party and Alan Garcia’s centrist APRA each won five seats, or 4% of total votes.

Congress 2016 to 2021

After losing the 2011 presidential runoff election, Fujimori spent the next five years reinforcing her Popular Force party in every small town and remote province in the country. In the 2016 election, Popular Force candidates won more than a third of the popular vote. The party is noted for its member discipline and solidarity.

Kuczynski’s Peruvians for Change party garnered over 307,000 votes more than Mendoza’s Broad Front, or 18% more of the latter’s total. However the distribution in Peru’s 26 represented regions yielded Broad Front two more seats in Congress.

Four political parties lost their legal status for failing to garner 5% of the national vote, including former President Alejandro Toledo’s Possible Peru, in an election which saw voters punish veteran politicians.

Facing low support in opinion polls, some parties opted out of the election in an effort to save their legal status. President Ollanta Humala’s Peruvian Nationalist Party and Lima mayor Luis Castañeda’s National Solidarity party sat out, while Lourdes Flores’s Popular Christian Party (PPC) entered an alliance with APRA to preserve its party inscription. The PPC met the threshold to remain a party but did not win one seat in Congress.

Jailed Cajamarca governor Gregorio Santos’s Direct Democracy lost its inscription despite garnering the most votes in the state home to Yanacocha, the world’s fourth-largest gold mine. The leftist anti-mining party would have won five seats in Congress, all from Cajamarca, if it had obtained the minimum 5% of the national vote.

Below are the congressmen organized by party and state. The next president and legislators will assume office on July 28.

Popular Force

  1. Miguel Castro (Amazonas)
  2. Marita Herrera (Amazonas)
  3. Carlos Dominguez (Ancash)
  4. Maria Melgarejo (Ancash)
  5. Yesenia Ponce (Ancash)
  6. Dalmiro Palomino (Apurimac)
  7. Maria Aramayo (Arequipa)
  8. Miky Dipas (Ayacucho)
  9. Osias Ramirez (Cajamarca)
  10. Carlos Ticlla (Cajamarca)
  11. Segundo Tapia (Cajamarca)
  12. Wilmer Aguilar (Cajamarca)
  13. Victor Albrecht (Callao)
  14. Francisco Villavicencio (Callao)
  15. Estelita Bustos (Callao)
  16. Nelly Cuadros (Cusco)
  17. Wuilian Monterola (Huancavelica)
  18. Guillermo Bocangel (Huanuco)
  19. Karina Beteta (Huanuco)
  20. Miguel Elias (Ica)
  21. Cesar Segura (Ica)
  22. Betty Anaculi (Ica)
  23. Sonia Echevarria (Junin)
  24. Federico Pariona (Junin)
  25. Israel Tito (Junin)
  26. Daniel Salaverry (La Libertad)
  27. Octavio Salazar (La Libertad)
  28. Rosa Bartra (La Libertad)
  29. Luis Yika (La Libertad)
  30. Jose Palma (Lambayeque)
  31. Hector Becerril (Lambayeque)
  32. Liliana Takayama (Lambayeque)
  33. Kenji Fujimori (Lima)
  34. Cecilia Chacon (Lima)
  35. Yeni Vilcatoma (Lima)
  36. Luz Salgado (Lima)
  37. Lourdes Alcorta (Lima)
  38. Marco Miyashiro (Lima)
  39. Edwin Vergara (Lima)
  40. Luis Galarreta (Lima)
  41. Leyla Chihuan (Lima)
  42. Juan Carlos Gonzales (Lima)
  43. Ursula Letona (Lima)
  44. Miguel Angel Torres (Lima)
  45. Paloma Noceda (Lima)
  46. Francisco Petrozzi (Lima)
  47. Milagros Salazar (Lima)
  48. Elard Melgar (Lima provinces)
  49. Gladys Andrade (Lima provinces)
  50. Percy Alcala (Lima provinces)
  51. Lizbeth Robles (Lima provinces)
  52. Patricia Donayre  (Loreto)
  53. Juan Carlos del Águila (Loreto)
  54. Tamar Arimborgo (Loreto)
  55. Modesto Figueroa (Madre de Dios)
  56. Mario Mantilla (Moquegua)
  57. Clayton Galvan (Pasco)
  58. Roy Ventura (Pasco)
  59. Karla Schaefer (Piura)
  60. Luis Lopez (Piura)
  61. Martires Lizana (Piura)
  62. Freddy Sarmiento (Piura)
  63. Maritza Garcia (Piura)
  64. Lucio Avila (Puno)
  65. Moises Mamani (Puno)
  66. Rolando Reategui (San Martin)
  67. Gilmer Trujillo (San Martin)
  68. Esther Saavedra (San Martin)
  69. Guillermo Martorell (Tacna)
  70. Bienvenido Ramirez (Tumbes)
  71. Juan Carlo Yuyes (Tumbes)
  72. Glider Ashñahua (Ucayali)
  73. Carlos Tubino (Ucayali)

Broad Front

  1. Maria Foronda (Ancash)
  2. Richard Arce (Apurimac)
  3. Horacio Zeballos (Arequipa)
  4. Justiniano Apaza (Arequipa)
  5. Edyson Morales (Ayacucho)
  6. Tania Pariano (Ayacucho)
  7. Marco Arana (Cajamarca)
  8. Wilbert Rozas (Cusco)
  9. Edgar Ochoa (Cusco)
  10. Zacarias Lapa (Huancavelica)
  11. Rogelio Tucto (Huanuco)
  12. Mario Canzio (Junin)
  13. Marisa Glave (Lima)
  14. Manuel Dammert (Lima)
  15. Indira Huilca (Lima)
  16. Hernando Ceballos (Piura)
  17. Oracio Pacori (Puno)
  18. Edilberto Curro (Puno)
  19. Alberto Quintanilla (Puno)
  20. Jorge Castro (Tacna)

Peruvians for Change

  1. Ana Maria Choquehuanca (Arequipa)
  2. Sergio Davila (Arequipa)
  3. Janet Sanchez (Callao)
  4. Alberto Oliva (Ica)
  5. Moises Guia (Junin)
  6. Clemente Flores (Lambayeque)
  7. Mercedes Araoz (Lima)
  8. Carlos Bruce (Lima)
  9. Salvador Heresi (Lima)
  10. Gilbert Violeta (Lima)
  11. Juan Sheput (Lima)
  12. Pedro Olaechea (Lima)
  13. Guido Lombardi (Lima)
  14. Alberto de Belaunde (Lima)
  15. Roberto Vieira (Lima)
  16. Gino Costa (Lima)
  17. Jorge Melendez (Loreto)
  18. Vicente Zeballos (Moquegua)

Alliance for Progress

  1. Eloy Narvaez (Ancash)
  2. Cesar Vasquez (Cajamarca)
  3. Benicio Rios (Cusco)
  4. Richard Acuña (La Libertad)
  5. Gloria Montenegro (La Libertad)
  6. Edwin Donayre (Lima)
  7. Julio Rosas (Lima)
  8. Marisol Espinoza (Piura)
  9. Cesar Villanueva (San Martin)

Popular Action

  1. Miguel Roman (Arequipa)
  2. Armando Villanueva (Cusco)
  3. Victor Garcia (Lima)
  4. Yonhy Lescano (Lima)
  5. Edmundo del Aguila (Lima)

APRA

  1. Elias Rodriguez (La Libertad)
  2. Javier Velasquez (Lambayeque)
  3. Mauricio Mulder (Lima)
  4. Jorge del Castillo (Lima)
  5. Luciana Leon (Lima)

Sources

ELECCIONES GENERALES 2016: CONGRESALES (ONPE)

Los 130 congresistas electos (Congreso)

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