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Chile runoff 2025

Polling day . Counted by Electoral Service. Times are Santiago time; hover for UTC.

Held because no presidential candidate won more than half of the valid votes on 16 Nov 2025 (Constitution art. 26; blank and null votes count as not cast, Ley 18.700 art. 120). TRICEL's Acta de declaración Rol N°2.166-2025 of 1 Dec 2025 found that the results 'no arrojaron la mayoría absoluta que previene el artículo 26' and ordered a second round between the two candidates with the highest relative majorities, Jeannette Jara Román and José Antonio Kast Rist, held 'el cuarto domingo después de efectuada la primera'.

Result and count stages

Final count

CandidatePartyVotesShare
José Antonio Kast Rist—7,263,236
Jeannette Jara Román—5,222,558
Total votes12,485,794

Turnout 85.1%: 13,434,954 ballots from 15,779,102 registered voters.

Official national result including votes abroad, from the sentence's table 'RESULTADOS GENERALES' (p. 10): Kast Rist 7.263.236 (58,17%), Jara Román 5.222.558 (41,83%); 'Votación Válidamente Emitida' 12.485.794 (totalVotes; rows add up to it exactly); Votos Nulos 783.816 and Votos en Blanco 165.344 give 'Total votación' 13.434.954 (ballots); 'Inscritos' 15.779.102 (electorate). Abroad: Jara Román 34.354, Kast Rist 23.832, total 59.511 of 160.935 registered. Ordered here by votes (ballot numbers 2 Jara, 5 Kast). Winner: Kast Rist, proclaimed President-elect in the same sentence (Constitution art. 26: 'resultará electo aquél de los candidatos que obtenga el mayor número de sufragios'). The same figures are the sums of TRICEL's spreadsheet https://tribunalcalificador.cl/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Resultados-definitivos-eleccion-Presidencial-2025-Segunda-Vuelta.xlsx. LICENCE: copied from TRICEL's own publications on tribunalcalificador.cl. The site states no reuse terms: its only legal text is a footer '© 2016 Tribunal Calificador de Elecciones de Chile' and an 'Aviso Legal' that covers only its experimental AI case-law tool (both read on https://tribunalcalificador.cl/resultados_de_elecciones/, 3 Oct 2026). The sentences themselves order the official tables to be kept 'a disposición del público' and inserted 'en la página electrónica del Tribunal'. Ley 17.336 (bcn.cl idNorma 28933) was checked: art. 11 (patrimonio cultural común) lists expired, anonymous, renounced, unprotected-foreign and expropriated works and does not cover official texts; art. 88 makes the State and autonomous institutions holders of copyright in works their officials produce, unless released by resolution. No release was found; the counts are facts taken from official acts. Per the project rule for official sites without stated terms, licence 'Official publication of the Tribunal Calificador de Elecciones; no reuse terms stated'. Published by Tribunal Calificador de Elecciones (Sentencia de proclamación, Rol N°2234-2025), 5 Jan 2026: tribunalcalificador.cl/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Sent-de-proclamacion.pdf. Official publication of the Tribunal Calificador de Elecciones; no reuse terms stated.

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Provenance: researcher agent 2026-10-03: TRICEL Acta de declaración Rol 2166-2025 (1 Dec 2025), Sentencia de proclamación Rol 2234-2025 and Acta de proclamación (5 Jan 2026), Sentencias de calificación Rol 2211-2025 (Senado) and 2212-2025 (Diputados) of 4 Feb 2026, and TRICEL's 'Resultados oficiales' spreadsheets (Resultados-definitivos-eleccion-Presidencial-2025-Primera/Segunda-Vuelta.xlsx, Distrito-01..28.xlsx, 1a/2a/4a/6a/9a/11a/14a-Circunscripcion-Senatorial.xlsx) on tribunalcalificador.cl; tribunalcalificador.cl posts of 1 Dec 2025, 6 Jan, 4 Feb and 24 Feb 2026; Ley 18.700 arts. 74, 120, 121 and Ley 17.336 arts. 11, 88 on bcn.cl (CC BY 4.0 (Election Index); vote counts official publication of the Tribunal Calificador de Elecciones, no reuse terms stated). Last verified 2026-10-03.

Questions and answers

When is the Chile runoff 2025?
Polling day is 2025-12-14 (officially set). Held because no presidential candidate won more than half of the valid votes on 16 Nov 2025 (Constitution art. 26; blank and null votes count as not cast, Ley 18.700 art. 120). TRICEL's Acta de declaración Rol N°2.166-2025 of 1 Dec 2025 found that the results 'no arrojaron la mayoría absoluta que previene el artículo 26' and ordered a second round between the two candidates with the highest relative majorities, Jeannette Jara Román and José Antonio Kast Rist, held 'el cuarto domingo después de efectuada la primera'.
When will the final result of the President of the Republic (second round) race be official?
Expected between polls close and 2026-01-14T02:59:59Z (UTC), confidence announced. Constitution art. 27: the calificación must be concluded 'dentro de los treinta días siguientes tratándose de la segunda votación' (as cited in the chile-general-2029-r2 record), i.e. by Tue 13 Jan 2026; expectedBy is the end of that day, UTC-3. Ley 18.700 art. 120 (bcn.cl, read 3 Oct 2026): 'el tribunal proclamará elegido al candidato que hubiere obtenido más de la mitad de los sufragios válidamente emitidos. Para estos efectos, los votos en blanco y nulos se considerarán como no emitidos'. The final act is TRICEL's Sentencia de proclamación Rol N°2234-2025, 'Santiago, cinco de enero de dos mil veintiséis': 'Que se proclama Presidente Electo de la República para el período constitucional de cuatro años, que se inicia el 11 de marzo de 2026, a don José Antonio Kast Rist. En virtud de lo anterior, se declara cerrado el proceso electoral de estos comicios presidenciales', with the Acta de Proclamación of the same date, read in a public hearing on Mon 5 Jan 2026 (TRICEL post of 6 Jan 2026). The acts give a date but no hour, so observedAt is the end of 5 Jan 2026 local (UTC-3). TRICEL's rulings allow no appeal, so there is no court-validation stage. Polls: Ley 18.700 art. 74 (bcn.cl idNorma 1108229, read 3 Oct 2026): 'A las dieciocho horas del día de la elección, y siempre que no hubiere algún elector que deseare sufragar, el presidente declarará cerrada la votación'. 18:00 on mainland Chile, which was on summer time (UTC-3) on 14 Dec 2025 (Decreto 93/2025, as cited in the chile-general-2029 record), i.e. 21:00 UTC. Easter Island tables close at 18:00 UTC-5 (23:00 UTC).
Where are the official President of the Republic (second round) results?
https://tribunalcalificador.cl/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Resultados-definitivos-eleccion-Presidencial-2025-Segunda-Vuelta.xlsx