1994 Uruguayan general election

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General elections were held in Uruguay on 27 November 1994, alongside a double referendum.[1] The result was a narrow victory for the Colorado Party, which won the most seats in the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate and received the most votes in the presidential election.

Tabaré Vázquez of the Broad Front received the most votes of any presidential candidate. However, former president Julio Maria Sanguinetti returned to office by virtue of the Colorados receiving the most votes of any party. Under the multi-candidate Ley de Lemas system in effect at the time, the highest-finishing candidate of the party that won the most votes was elected president. Vázquez finished just 12,100 fewer votes than the combined vote for the runner-up National Party, even though he won over 121,000 more votes than Sanguinetti. At the time, this was the best showing for a third party since the presidential system was reinstituted with the 1967 constitution.

They were the last presidential elections conducted under the Ley de Lemas system, which had been used for much of the 20th century and had been reinstituted in 1967. In 1996, a referendum amended the constitution to restrict each party to a single presidential candidate, effective from the 1999 elections.

Results[]

President[]

Results of the 1994 Uruguayan presidential election
Party Candidate Votes %
Colorado Party Julio María Sanguinetti 500,760 24.7
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez 102,551 5.1
Jorge Pacheco Areco 51,935 2.6
Total 656,426 32.3
National Party 301,655 14.9
Juan Andrés Ramírez 264,255 13.0
Carlos Julio Pereyra 65,650 3.2
Total 633,384 31.2
Broad Front–Progressive Encounter Tabaré Vázquez 621,226 30.6
New Space Rafael Michelini 104,773 5.2
Green Party Rodolfo Tálice 5,498 0.25
Other parties (incl. candidate Roberto Canessa) 7,972 0.35
Invalid/blank votes 101,337 –
Total 2,130,616 100
Registered voters/turnout 2,330,154 91.4
Source: Nohlen

General Assembly[]

Party Votes % Chamber of Deputies Senate
Seats +/– Seats +/–
Colorado Party 656,426 32.3 32 +2 11 +2
National Party 633,384 31.1 31 –8 10 –2
Broad Front–Progressive Encounter 621,226 30.8 31 +10 9 +2
New Space 104,773 5.2 5 –4 1 –1
Green Party 5,498 0.25 0 – 0 –
Other parties 7,972 0.35 0 – 0 –
Invalid/blank votes 101,337 – – – – –
Total 2,130,616 100 99 0 31 +1
Registered voters/turnout 2,330,154 91.4 – – – –
Source: Nohlen


Further reading[]

  • Mieres, Pablo. Elecciones 1994: una nueva fase de la transformación electoral en el Uruguay (PDF) (in Spanish). Revista Uruguaya de Ciencia Política. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 12 June 2014.

References[]

  1. ^ Nohlen, D (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II, p494 ISBN 978-0-19-928358-3

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