Hitler Mussolini Simeón Flores leads Queropalca mayoral vote by 25 ballots

Hitler Mussolini Simeón Flores led the mayoral vote in Queropalca, Peru, by 25 ballots in results reported on 9 October. The Ahora Nación candidate received 229 votes in the district in Huánuco department, ahead of a runner-up on 204. Reports describe Flores as the virtual winner; they do not establish that the result has been formally certified or that he has taken office.

Queropalca mayoral vote: a 25-ballot lead

Infobae Perú reported that Flores won 34.540% of the 663 valid votes. Renovación Popular Perú finished second with 204 votes, or 30.769%. País para Todos followed with 187 votes, or 28.205%. The third-place party was 42 ballots behind Flores, leaving the three leading contenders relatively close in a small electorate.

The figures also show why the lead needs careful description. Flores was first among the candidates, but his 229 votes were less than half of the valid ballots. The reported margin over second place was 25 votes, while the gap between second and third was 17. Those numbers describe the count reported by Infobae; they do not, on their own, establish a certified result.

Infobae reported 707 votes cast overall: 663 valid ballots, 30 blank ballots and 14 null ballots. Its account places Alianza para el Progreso fourth with 35 votes and Somos Perú fifth with eight. Together, those figures account for the valid votes it reported. The blank and null ballots are part of the turnout figure but are outside the valid-vote shares attributed to candidates.

What the reported result establishes

Both accounts place Flores at the front of the Queropalca mayoral contest. Infobae calls him the virtual winner, a qualification that matters while the reviewed reporting does not establish formal certification. A lead in reported results is the confirmed development here. Whether and when Flores is formally declared the winner, and when he would assume the mayoralty, are not established by these reports.

Flores ran for Ahora Nación, which Euronews describes as a centre-left party. The local vote was part of regional and municipal elections held across Peru, according to Euronews. Queropalca is in Lauricocha province in Huánuco department, north of Lima. The immediate effect of the reported count is therefore local: it identifies the candidate leading the contest to head this district’s municipality.

The candidate’s name and Peru’s earlier elections

Flores’s given names match those of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. That coincidence has drawn attention to the Queropalca result, but the reported vote totals say nothing about Flores’s political beliefs beyond his party affiliation. The substantive electoral question remains the status of the mayoral result and the narrow margin separating the leading candidates.

Euronews noted an earlier Peruvian mayor named Hitler Alba, who served in the Andean town of Yungar from 2011 to 2014. It reported that Alba later ran again and won in 2018 with 47.7% of the vote. Alba’s elections provide context for why Flores is not the first Peruvian politician with that given name to win a local contest; they do not establish anything about Flores’s views or his eventual status in Queropalca.

Euronews also reported that Hitler Saavedra, a member of We Are Peru, served in Peru’s Congress from 2021 until his death in 2024. Those separate political careers should not be conflated with the current Queropalca race. For this contest, the reported figures remain 229 votes for Flores, 204 for the runner-up and 187 for the third-place party, with formal certification unconfirmed in the reviewed accounts.