2025 Chilean general election
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Presidential election | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
16 November 2025 (first round)
14 December 2025 (second round) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Registered | 15,779,102 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Turnout | 85.42% (first round) 38.09pp 85.14% (second round) 29.50pp | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 16 November 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
All 155 seats in the Chamber of Deputies 78 seats needed for a majority | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 16 November 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
23 of the 50 seats in the Senate 26 seats needed for a majority | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
General elections were held in Chile on 16 November 2025. Voters went to the polls to elect the 38th president of Chile, renew all 155 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, and fill 23 of the 50 seats in the Senate. Republican Party candidate José Antonio Kast defeated Communist Party member Jeannette Jara in a runoff election on 14 December.
In the first round, Jara, a communist, won a plurality of the vote. Kast, who has been described as conservative or hard-right, placed second. Combined, right-leaning candidates received approximately 70 percent of the first-round presidential vote. Johannes Kaiser and Evelyn Matthei, both candidates on the right, endorsed Kast for the runoff, while Franco Parisi declined to make an endorsement, calling on his voters to decide themselves who to vote for. In the run-off, Kast defeated Jara with 58% of the vote, the second-highest percentage of the vote since Chile's transition to democracy. Kast received 7.2 million votes, which was the highest ever vote total in Chile's history. He won in all sixteen regions of the country.
In the parliamentary election, Unidad por Chile, a coalition of the ruling leftist and center-left parties, emerged as the largest bloc of the Chamber of Deputies, while in the Senate the left-wing and right-wing blocs reached a tie with 25 senators each.
This was the first general election since the reintroduction of compulsory voting in 2022.