{ "data": { "id": "chile-general-2029-r2", "country": "CL", "country_name": "Chile", "level": "national", "subdivision": null, "subdivision_name": null, "date": "2029-12-16", "date_status": "tentative", "kind": "runoff", "conditional": "Held only if no presidential candidate wins more than half of the valid votes on 18 Nov 2029 (blank and null votes count as not cast). The second round is between the two candidates with the highest relative majorities and takes place 'el cuarto domingo después de efectuada la primera' (Constitution art. 26). TRICEL declares the two candidates and orders their publication in the Diario Oficial (Ley 18.700 art. 120).", "timezone": "America/Santiago", "status": "scheduled", "last_verified_at": "2026-10-02T12:00:00Z", "stale": false, "stale_reason": null, "provenance": { "from": "researcher agent 2026-10-02: Constitución Política arts. 25-27, 47, 49, 95 and Ley 18.700 (DFL 2/2017 text, version 2025-10-23) arts. 63, 74, 95, 104, 109-121, 185, 188-190 on bcn.cl/leychile; Ley 18.460 art. 9; Decreto 93/2025 (hora oficial) on bcn.cl; servel.cl news posts of 16-17 Nov, 20-21 Nov, 14 Dec and 18 Dec 2025; tribunalcalificador.cl posts of 1 Dec 2025, 6 Jan, 4 Feb and 24 Feb 2026 and TRICEL 2021 actas/sentencias (6 Dec 2021, 18 Jan 2022) and 2022 posts", "licence": "CC BY 4.0 (Election Index)" }, "url": "https://electionindex.org/election/chile-general-2029-r2", "races": [ { "id": "president", "key": "chile-general-2029-r2/president", "name": "President of the Republic (second round)", "body": "head-of-state", "seats": null, "seats_provisional": false, "polls_close_utc": "2029-12-16T21:00:00Z", "authority": { "id": "cl-servel", "name": "Electoral Service", "name_local": "Servicio Electoral de Chile", "role": "electoral-commission", "homepage": "https://www.servel.cl/", "results_index": "https://www.servel.cl/biblioteca-de-documentos/resultados-electorales-historicos/", "open_data": null }, "status": "scheduled", "expected_stage_now": null, "observed": false, "final_observed": null, "final_expected": { "from": "2029-12-23T03:00:00Z", "by": "2030-01-16T02:59:59Z", "confidence": "announced", "basis": "Constitution art. 27: the calificación must be concluded 'dentro de los treinta días siguientes tratándose de la segunda votación' - by Tue 15 Jan 2030; TRICEL then communicates the proclamation of the president-elect to the President of the Senate, and the Congreso Pleno takes note of it on the day the outgoing term ends (11 Mar 2030). Ley 18.700 arts. 109-110 and 120: claims within six days (by Sat 22 Dec 2029); TRICEL meets at 10:00 on the third day and proclaims the candidate with the most votes. Precedents: 2025 - proclaimed in a public hearing on Mon 5 Jan 2026, day 22 (tribunalcalificador.cl, 6 Jan 2026); 2021 - proclaimed on 10 Jan 2022, day 22 (tribunalcalificador.cl, 11 Jan 2022). The opening (after the claims deadline) is an ESTIMATED floor; the window closes at the end of the constitutional deadline, 15 Jan 2030, UTC-3. TRICEL is itself the qualifying court and its rulings allow no appeal, so there is no separate court-validation stage." }, "last_final": null, "previous": null, "stages": [ { "stage": "election-night", "from": "2029-12-16T21:00:00Z", "by": "2029-12-17T15:00:00Z", "replacedAt": null, "confidence": "precedent", "citation": "Tentative date: Constitution art. 26, the runoff 'se verificará ... el cuarto domingo después de efectuada la primera' - four Sundays after 18 Nov 2029 is 16 Dec 2029 (2025: 16 Nov and 14 Dec). Polls close at 18:00 local (Ley 18.700 art. 74), 21:00 UTC on the mainland. Mainland Chile keeps summer time (UTC-3) through November-January: Decreto 93/2025 (bcn.cl idNorma 1211955) recites the base rule of Decreto 1489/1970 (summer time from the second Saturday of October to the second Saturday of March) and the later decrees (1286/2018: first Saturday of September to first Saturday of April); press reports a Decreto 98/2026 fixing that period up to April 2029 (not read on the official portal). Either rule puts the polling day on UTC-3. Magallanes and Aysén are on UTC-3 all year (Decretos 143/2022, 93/2025). Easter Island (Chile Insular Occidental) is on UTC-5 in summer, so its tables close at 23:00 UTC. SERVEL publishes preliminary bulletins as tables finish counting (art. 185). 2025 precedent: SERVEL reported 57.44% of 40,900 tables counted in a bulletin posted on the evening of 14 Dec 2025 (servel.cl news, 14 Dec 2025). The window closes at noon local on Monday. Preliminary, not the official result.", "source": null, "observedAt": null, "observedSource": null }, { "stage": "intermediate-count", "from": "2029-12-17T17:00:00Z", "by": "2029-12-23T02:59:59Z", "replacedAt": null, "confidence": "precedent", "citation": "Ley 18.700 art. 95: the colegios escrutadores meet at 14:00 the day after the vote (Mon 17 Dec 2029, 17:00 UTC); art. 104: SERVEL publishes their results as it receives them, replacing the preliminary ones. 2025 precedent: colegios met Mon 15 Dec 2025 and SERVEL published the provisional results on Thu 18 Dec 2025 (day 4; servel.cl news, 18 Dec 2025). The window closes at the end of Sat 22 Dec 2029 (day 6), UTC-3. Provisional and subject to TRICEL's escrutinio general.", "source": null, "observedAt": null, "observedSource": null }, { "stage": "final-result", "from": "2029-12-23T03:00:00Z", "by": "2030-01-16T02:59:59Z", "replacedAt": null, "confidence": "announced", "citation": "Constitution art. 27: the calificación must be concluded 'dentro de los treinta días siguientes tratándose de la segunda votación' - by Tue 15 Jan 2030; TRICEL then communicates the proclamation of the president-elect to the President of the Senate, and the Congreso Pleno takes note of it on the day the outgoing term ends (11 Mar 2030). Ley 18.700 arts. 109-110 and 120: claims within six days (by Sat 22 Dec 2029); TRICEL meets at 10:00 on the third day and proclaims the candidate with the most votes. Precedents: 2025 - proclaimed in a public hearing on Mon 5 Jan 2026, day 22 (tribunalcalificador.cl, 6 Jan 2026); 2021 - proclaimed on 10 Jan 2022, day 22 (tribunalcalificador.cl, 11 Jan 2022). The opening (after the claims deadline) is an ESTIMATED floor; the window closes at the end of the constitutional deadline, 15 Jan 2030, UTC-3. TRICEL is itself the qualifying court and its rulings allow no appeal, so there is no separate court-validation stage.", "source": null, "observedAt": null, "observedSource": null } ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://elecciones.servel.cl/", "role": "results-live", "kind": "emb_home", "kindReason": "site root: cannot answer a results question", "resolvable": false, "origin": "race", "note": "SERVEL 'Resultados Preliminares' site (a single-page app; on 2 Oct 2026 its title was 'Resultados Preliminares' and it serves the latest election, not a page for this one). Preliminary results under Ley 18.700 art. 185, which 'tendrán el carácter de preliminares'. Not the official result.", "check": null }, { "url": "https://provisorios.servel.cl/", "role": "results-live", "kind": "emb_home", "kindReason": "site root: cannot answer a results question", "resolvable": false, "origin": "race", "note": "SERVEL 'Resultados Provisorios' site: the colegios escrutadores' counts, which replace the preliminary results (Ley 18.700 art. 104) but are 'provisorios y ... sujetos al escrutinio general del Tribunal Calificador de Elecciones' (servel.cl, 20 Nov 2025). Linked from servel.cl news of 20 Nov and 18 Dec 2025; on 2 Oct 2026 it serves the latest election.", "check": null }, { "url": "https://tribunalcalificador.cl/resultados_de_elecciones/", "role": "results-final", "kind": "results_index", "kindReason": "results section without an election code", "resolvable": false, "origin": "race", "note": "TRICEL index of official results. On 2 Oct 2026 it lists 'Resultados-definitivos-eleccion-Presidencial-2025-Segunda-Vuelta.xlsx' for the 2025 runoff; nothing for 2029 yet. The proclamation of the president-elect will appear here.", "check": null }, { "url": "https://www.servel.cl/biblioteca-de-documentos/resultados-electorales-historicos/", "role": "results-final", "kind": "results_index", "kindReason": "results section without an election code", "resolvable": false, "origin": "race", "note": "SERVEL index of past results (2025 entries are Power BI reports). An index, not a page for this election.", "check": null }, { "url": "https://www.bcn.cl/leychile/navegar?idNorma=242302", "role": "timetable", "kind": "other", "kindReason": "no election or results marker", "resolvable": false, "origin": "race", "note": "Constitución Política (texto refundido DS 100/2005, version of 16 Apr 2026 read 2 Oct 2026): art. 25 (four-year presidential term), art. 26 (polling day and runoff), art. 27 (calificación deadlines), arts. 47 and 49 (Chamber renewed in full every four years; senators serve eight years, half renewed every four), art. 95 (TRICEL conducts the escrutinio general, qualifies and proclaims).", "check": null }, { "url": "https://www.bcn.cl/leychile/navegar?idNorma=1108229", "role": "timetable", "kind": "other", "kindReason": "no election or results marker", "resolvable": false, "origin": "race", "note": "Ley 18.700, Orgánica Constitucional sobre Votaciones Populares y Escrutinios (DFL 2/2017 consolidated text, version of 23 Oct 2025): art. 63 (tables meet at 08:00), art. 74 (close at 18:00), art. 95 (colegios escrutadores meet at 14:00 the next day), art. 104 (SERVEL publishes their results), arts. 109-121 (claims, TRICEL escrutinio general, proclamation), art. 185 (preliminary results), arts. 188-190 (districts and senatorial circumscriptions).", "check": null }, { "url": "https://www.servel.cl/Ch/app/segunda-votacion-presidencial-2025-fechas/noticias/", "role": "timetable", "kind": "other", "kindReason": "election page without a results marker", "resolvable": false, "origin": "race", "note": "Precedent calendar, SERVEL 21 Nov 2025: TRICEL meets Wed 19 Nov 2025 10:00; colegios escrutadores' provisional results Thu 20 Nov; claims deadline Sat 22 Nov; deadline to qualify the presidential election Mon 1 Dec; Diario Oficial publication of the two runoff candidates Tue 2 Dec. No 2029 calendar is published yet.", "check": null }, { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Chilean_general_election", "role": "see-also", "kind": "other", "kindReason": "election page without a results marker", "resolvable": false, "origin": "race", "note": "The previous election. No Wikipedia article for the 2029 election existed on 2 Oct 2026 (en and es checked).", "check": null }, { "url": "https://www.servel.cl/", "role": "authority-home", "kind": "emb_home", "kindReason": "site root: cannot answer a results question", "resolvable": false, "origin": "authority", "check": null } ], "page_activity": [], "government": null, "results": [], "live_count": null, "url": "https://electionindex.org/election/chile-general-2029-r2#president" } ] }, "meta": { "dataset_version": "2026-10-02.be7d6f40", "built_at": "2026-10-02T15:42:24Z", "generated_at": "2026-10-02T18:13:29.570Z", "licence": "CC BY 4.0: credit \"Global Election Index (electionindex.org)\" and link to https://electionindex.org", "docs": "https://electionindex.org/docs" } }