Candidate named Hitler Mussolini wins Peru mayoral vote

A man named Hitler Mussolini Simeon Flores is the apparent winner of the mayoral race in Queropalca, a remote Andean district of Peru, according to results from the country’s electoral authority.

Mr. Flores, a candidate for the center-left Ahora Nacion party, took 229 votes, or 34.54% of the 663 valid ballots cast in Peru’s regional and municipal elections on Monday, Infobae reported.

The race was tight. Renovacion Popular finished second with 204 votes, and País para Todos was third with 187, leaving 42 votes between first and third place.

The result had not yet been formally proclaimed, although Peru’s National Office of Electoral Processes reported that 100% of the tally sheets had been counted. The National Jury of Elections is responsible for proclaiming winners after the electoral review process.

Queropalca, in Lauricocha province in the Huánuco region, has just over 730 residents, according to 2024 official data. Mr. Flores, 45, also manages the Simeon SAC investment group in Pillco Marca. His party says it supports a democratic, decentralized state and opposes discrimination.

Mr. Flores is not the first Peruvian politician with the name. In 2018, Hitler Guesclin Alba Sánchez won the mayoralty of Yúngar, a town in the Ancash region, with 47.7% of the vote over Lennin Vladimir Rodríguez Valverde, Perú Reports reported. Mr. Alba, who had previously served as mayor from 2011 to 2014, campaigned as “the good Hitler” and has said he believes his father did not know who the German dictator was when he chose the name.

The phenomenon extends beyond Peru. In Namibia, Adolf Hitler Uunona won a fifth consecutive term on his regional council seat in November 2025, The Independent reported. Mr. Uunona has since removed “Hitler” from his identity document and said, “My name is not Adolf Hitler.”