| Summary: | The election to the Presidency of Peru of the nationalist and “leftist” candidate Ollanta Humala, in June, 2011, surprised most observers. In a context of strong economic growth and poverty decrease, voters seemed to have to opt for continuity. The mapping of the votes at the regional scale, and at the district scale in the capital Lima, helps to understand how the strategies followed by the various parties and coalitions took to the second round the two candidates that elicited the strongest rejection from the electorate, Ollanta Humala and Keiko Fujimori. Ollanta Humala obtained in the second round the support of both intellectuals and artists that had opposed the dictatorship of Alberto Fujimori, as well as the votes of those who have been left behind by the neoliberal path to development.
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