In a moment when public trust in electoral processes is fragile and misinformation spreads faster than verified facts, I decided to publish peruvoto2026, an open repository that exposes a verifiable April 20, 2026 snapshot of the official first‑round vote count for Peru’s 2026 General Elections.
This project does not attempt to interpret political outcomes or forecast results. Its purpose is simpler—and more important: put the data in everyone’s hands.
A solution intentionally built in Spanish
The entire repository — documentation, visuals, dashboards, and data descriptions — is written in Spanish.
This is intentional.
The primary audience for this project is:
- Peruvian citizens
- Journalists and fact‑checkers
- Local researchers
- Civic organizations
- Electoral observers
Spanish ensures accessibility for the people most directly affected by the data.
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What is peruvoto2026?
It’s a public repository containing:
- Local copies of the official ONPE dataset (via Hugging Face) as of 2026‑04‑20 07:42:02Z
- A Power BI report with five interactive dashboards
- RENIEC geographic reference files (ubigeo + coordinates)
- Clear documentation on data origin, structure, and usage
Everything is designed so that journalists, researchers, citizens, auditors, and developers can:
- Validate the vote count
- Explore voting patterns
- Inspect specific polling stations
- Analyze geographic distributions
- Detect anomalies or confirm consistency
Why publish this?
Because transparency isn’t something you talk about—it’s something you demonstrate.
When contradictory claims, partial interpretations, and unevidenced narratives circulate widely, the best defense of democratic integrity is open data, not hidden data.
This repository aims to:
- Reduce friction in accessing reliable information
- Enable citizen‑driven audits
- Prevent misinterpretations caused by lack of context
- Provide visual tools for rigorous analysis
- Document a precise, immutable state of the vote count
It does not replace ONPE.
It does not interpret results.
It simply exposes official data in an accessible format.
What’s inside the Power BI report?
The
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1. General Panel
A consolidated view of votes per candidate with filters for department, province, and district.
Includes blank votes, null votes, and total processed polling stations.
2. Candidate Panel
A granular, locality‑level breakdown.
Shows exactly how many votes each candidate received in every district of the country.
3. 900K Special Stations Panel
Covers special polling stations (universities, ESSALUD, educational institutions).
These stations have been part of public debate, so they are exposed with full clarity.
4. April 13 Panel
Results from polling stations opened on April 13, 2026.
Includes vote distribution, blank/null votes, and total stations opened that day.
5. 900K Map Panel
A georeferenced map using RENIEC coordinates.
Visualizes the national distribution of special stations.
Where do the data come from?
All files come from verifiable public sources:
- ONPE dataset (Hugging Face): 🔗huggingface.co/datasets/Neuracode/onpe-eg2026-mesa-a-mesa
- RENIEC ubigeo reference: 🔗account.geodir.co/resources/file/recursos/geodir-ubigeo-reniec.xlsx
The repository contains the exact files downloaded—no modifications.
Why a snapshot?
Because electoral data changes minute by minute.
A snapshot allows anyone to:
- Freeze a verifiable state
- Compare it with later versions
- Audit changes
- Reproduce analyses without risk of data drift
If newer data becomes available, anyone can replace the files in
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What this project is NOT
- Not a political analysis
- Not a projection or forecast
- Not a tool to favor any candidate
- Not an interpretation of trends
It is simply open data + visualization + traceability.
Who is this for?
- Journalists verifying claims
- Researchers studying electoral behavior
- Citizens seeking clarity
- Independent auditors
- Developers building tools on top of the data
- Organizations monitoring electoral integrity
Repository
🔗 github.com/oscarzamora/peruvoto2026
If you find opportunities to improve, want to contribute, or wish to extend the analysis, contributions are welcome.
Transparency is a collective effort.
Closing Thoughts
In times when trust erodes easily, the strongest response is evidence.
This repository is a concrete contribution to the public conversation:
verifiable, accessible, and fully auditable data.
If this helps even one person better understand the electoral process, it was worth publishing.
