Humala gained 31% of the vote in this week’s poll, and his rival in the 5 June run-off vote will be Keiko Fujimori.
The daughter of Peru’s jailed former president Alberto Fujimori got 23% of the first round votes, but analysts are divided about her capacity to attract enough votes to overturn Humala’s lead.
Humala’s espousal of left-leaning resource nationalism has invited comparisons with Ecuador’s Rafael Correa and Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, and the first round result made a mockery of earlier opinion polls indicating that former President Alejandro Toledo was heading for a first round victory.
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