Normally, congressional elections are held at the same time as presidential polls but Sunday's elections were brought forward after President Vizcarra took the drastic step of dissolving Congress in September 2019
President Vizcarra made the fight against corruption his main priority when he took power in March 2018 after then-President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski resigned over a vote-buying scandal.
When parties, led by Keiko Fujimori's Popular Force, blocked his efforts, he simply dissolved the legislative body.
Opposition lawmakers denounced the move as a coup but the heads of the armed forces and the police backed the president.
Supporters of Mr Vizcarra turned out to show their approval of the move and Peru's top court later ruled that it had been constitutional.
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