2021 Chilean general election

The Chile Vamos center-right coalition is expected to define a single candidate for president during the legal primary to be held on 4 July 2021.

• 
  Mayor of Las Condes
  Joaquín Lavín
  (UDI)
• 
  Mayor of Providencia
  Evelyn Matthei
  (UDI)
• 
  Former Minister of Defense
  Mario Desbordes
  (RN)
• 
  Former Minister of Finance
  Ignacio Briones
  (Evópoli)
• 
  Former Minister of Soc. Dev.
  Sebastián Sichel
  (Independent)

The Independent Democratic Union has not agreed on whether they should present a single candidate to the Chile Vamos primary or two. If a single candidate is chosen, a party primary between mayors Joaquín Lavín and Evelyn Matthei could take place.[5]

• Joaquín Lavín (UDI): Lavín studied economics at the University of Chicago. He was also a former economic appraiser of Pinochet, writing a book defending the economic plans supported by the dictatorship.[6][7] Today he is criticized for this, and promotes social housing programs for the poor.[8][9] He appeared as the candidate with the most votes in most polls.[10][11][12][13]
• Evelyn Matthei (UDI): Matthei is a right-wing politician. She studied at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. In 1993 she was the target of a scheme by Sebastián Piñera, to prevent her from becoming a candidate in a certain election.[14] She was a senator,[15] and ran in Chile's presidential elections in 2013.

• Mario Desbordes (RN): Desbordes became minister of Defense in July 2020. Before that he was a member of Congress in the Chamber of Deputies. He was also president of his party between 2018 and 2020, and secretary-general between 2010 and 2018. During the first administration of President Sebastián Piñera he had a stint as undersecretary of Investigations. He was proclaimed by the PRI party as their candidate on 29 December 2020.[16] On 23 January 2021 his own party —RN— chose him as their contender for the Chile Vamos primary race after winning nearly 73% of the vote of the General Council.[17]
• Ignacio Briones (Evópoli): Briones is an economist who was minister of Finance between 2019 and 2021. He was unanimously proclaimed by the Political Evolution party as their presidential candidate on 30 January 2021.[18]
• Sebastián Sichel (Ind.): Sichel was minister of Social Development and President of Banco Estado. He said he will participate as independent in a Chile Vamos primary.[19]

The Constituent Unity center-left coalition is expected to define a single candidate for president during the legal primary to be held on 4 July 2021.

• 
  President of the PPD
  Heraldo Muñoz
  (PPD)
• 
  Former Spokesperson
  Paula Narváez
  (PS)
• 
  Senator for Const. 9
  Ximena Rincón
  (PDC)
• 
  President of the PR
  Carlos Maldonado
  (PR)
• 
  Former Minister of Finance
  Andrés Velasco
  (Citizens)
• 
  Former Deputy for Dist. 10
  Marco Enríquez-O.
  (PRO)

The Party for Democracy and the Socialist Party will present a single candidate for the 4 July 2021 primary. A "pre-primary" between both parties' candidates is to be held at an unknown date.[20] The candidates are:

• Heraldo Muñoz (PPD): The current President of the PPD and former Minister of Foreign Affairs became the PPD candidate after beating former Minister of Interior and Spokesperson Francisco Vidal and former Deputy for District 39 and Ambassador Jorge Tarud by 54% of the vote in a primary held on 31 January 2021.[21]
• Paula Narváez (PS): The former minister was proclaimed by the Socialist Party's Central committee as their presidential candidate on 28 January 2021 in a unanimous vote.[22] Her candidacy emerged after a December 2020 Change.org petition made by female members of the PS asking Narváez to become the party's candidate was signed by former president Michelle Bachelet.[23] In January 2021 both senator José Miguel Insulza and PS president Álvaro Elizalde dropped out of the race.[24]

• Ximena Rincón (PDC): The current senator was proclaimed as the Christian Democratic Party's candidate for president after she beat former mayor and minister Alberto Undurraga in a primary held on 24 January 2021. She won by 57% of the vote.[25]
• Carlos Maldonado (PR): The former minister of Justice and current president of the Radical Party was proclaimed as presidential candidate on 23 December 2020.[26]
• Andrés Velasco (Citizens): His party has said it is in the process of defining whether to propose their own candidate for president or to endorse another candidate from the Constituent Unity coalition. If the former, a possibility is to choose the former Finance minister and party founder.[27]
• Marco Enríquez-Ominami (PRO): His party has announced it will ask the three-time presidential candidate to be once again their contender for the November 2021 election. The petition is to be formally presented in early February 2021.[28]

• 
  Mayor of Recoleta
  Daniel Jadue
  (PC)
• 
  Deputy for District 12
  Pamela Jiles
  (PH)

• Daniel Jadue (PC): Jadue is a Marxist, a member of the Communist Party of Chile. He studied Sociology at the University of Chile, and also studied Total Quality Management at the Catholic University of the North.[29] He appeared as the candidate with the most votes in several polls.[30][31][32]
• Pamela Jiles (PH): Jiles is a journalist,[33] television personality and leftist politician. She pursues her political career as deputy of the Republic of Chile for the District No. 12 in the Metropolitan Region of Santiago. She comes from a family of communists, and has praised Fidel Castro.[34] She appeared with the most votes in just one poll.[35]