By Marco Aquino
LIMA - Far-left candidate Pedro Castillo is leading the Peruvian presidential race with 16.1% of the vote, followed by conservative Keiko Fujimori and liberal economist Hernando de Soto, tied in second place with 11.9%, according to anIpsos exit poll released on Sunday night.
In fourth place is social conservative Yonhy Lescano, with 11% of the vote, followed by ultra-conservative Rafael Lopez Aliaga with 10.5% and leftist Veronika Mendoza with 8.8%, according to the exit poll.
The top two candidates will advance to a second round in June.
The poll of 30,000 voters leaving polling stations in 150 provinces in Peru had a 3% margin of error.
(Reporting by Marco Aquino; Writing by Aislinn Laing; Editing by Himani Sarkar and Peter Cooney)