Poll Tracker: Chile's 2025 Presidential Election

What turn will Chile take in its presidential election this year? Four years ago, voters gave Gabriel Boric, a leftist congressman and former student activist, a decisive victory in Chile’s presidential elections. Since then, the country drafted two new constitutions—one seen as leaning left, the other to the right—but neither version won the necessary voter support via referendum to become the new Magna Carta. Now, Chileans will vote for Boric’s successor, given that consecutive reelection is not permitted in the country.

This time around, two former presidential runners-up, both former national deputies and both on the right, are among the top polling candidates. That’s José Antonio Kast of the Republican Party, who lost to Boric in the 2021 runoff, and Evelyn Matthei of the Great and United Chile coalition, who lost to Michelle Bachelet in the 2013 runoff. Running to the right of Boric are Congressman Johannes Kaiser of the National Libertarian party and radio host and economist Franco Parisi, who is competing as an independent.

With the top two candidates on the right generally polling in the double digits and splintering support, Jeannette Jara of the Communist Party, who served as Boric’s labor minister, currently leads polls for the first-round November 16 vote. In June, Jara won the primary of the leftist Unity for Chile primary. Also competing for the left is former congressmember and perennial candidate Marco Enríquez-Ominami.

A candidate must secure more than 50 percent of the vote to win outright in the first round. Otherwise, the two top vote recipients advance to a December 14 runoff. This is Chile’s first presidential election since 2012 where voting is compulsory.