Humala Leads Fujimori By About 20,000 Votes in Peru Election
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Peruvian opposition candidate Ollanta Humala leads Congresswoman Keiko Fujimori by about 20,000 votes in the Andean nation’s presidential runoff.
Humala won 50.1 percent compared with 49.9 percent for Fujimori, after 78 percent of votes were counted. The tally corresponded to 12 million votes counted nationwide and abroad, most of them in Lima and other urban areas. A quick count at selected polling stations nationwide by Ipsos-Apoyo, a Lima-based researcher, favored Humala by 2.8 percentage points while another sample counting by Transparencia, an electoral watchdog, favored him by three percentage points.