2025 Chilean general election

2025 Chilean general election

Presidential election
16 November 2025 (first round)
14 December 2025 (second round)
Opinion polls
Registered15,779,102
Turnout85.42% (first round) 38.09pp
85.14% (second round) 29.50pp
 
Candidate José Antonio Kast Jeannette Jara
Party Republican Communist
Alliance Change for Chile Unity for Chile
Popular vote 7,263,236 5,222,558
Percentage 58.17% 41.83%


President before election

Gabriel Boric
FAUpCh

Elected President

José Antonio Kast
PRChCpCh

Chamber of Deputies
16 November 2025

All 155 seats in the Chamber of Deputies
78 seats needed for a majority
Party Vote % Seats +/–
UpCh

30.61 61 −13
CpCh

23.02 42 +27
ChGU

21.05 34 −19
PDG

11.99 14 +8
VRH

6.91 3 −1
Independents

0.69 1 0
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Senate
16 November 2025

23 of the 50 seats in the Senate
26 seats needed for a majority
Party Vote % Seats +/–
UpCh

32.20 20 +1
ChGU

24.27 17 −7
CpCh

25.40 8 +5
VRH

3.98 3 +1
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.