1962 Peruvian general election

General elections were held in Peru on 10 June 1962 to elect the President and both houses of the Congress.[1] Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre of the Peruvian Aprista Party won the presidential election with 33% of the vote. However, this was below the constitutional requirement of one-third of the vote.[2] The military, who were opposed to Haya, claimed that electoral fraud had been carried out in some districts, and the results were later annulled following a military coup on 18 July led by Ricardo Pérez Godoy.[1][3]

1962 Peruvian presidential election

10 June 1962

Nominee Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre Fernando Belaúnde Terry Manuel A. Odría Party APRA Popular Action UNO Popular vote 557,007 544,180 480,378 Percentage 33.0% 32.2% 28.4%

President before election Nicolás Lindley López Military Government Junta Elected President Fernando Belaúnde Terry Popular Action

Results

President

Candidate	Party	Votes	%
Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre	Peruvian Aprista Party	557,007	33.0
Fernando Belaúnde Terry	Popular Action	544,180	32.2
Manuel A. Odría	Odriíst National Union	480,378	28.4
Héctor Cornejo Chávez	Christian Democrat Party	48,792	2.9
César Pando Egúsquiza	National Liberation Front	33,341	2.0
Luciano Castillo Colonna	Socialist Party	16,658	1.0
Alberto Ruiz Eldredge	Progressive Social Movement	9,202	0.5
Invalid/blank votes		279,730	–
Total		1,969,288	100
Registered voters/turnout		2,221,288	88.6
Source: Nohlen

References

1. Nohlen, D (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II, p454 ISBN 978-0-19-928358-3
2. Richard J. Walter (2010) Peru and the United States, 1960-1975: How Their Ambassadors Managed Foreign Relations in a Turbulent Era Penn State Press, p17
3. Walter, p18