2009 Chilean parliamentary election

2009 Chilean parliamentary election
All 120 seats in the Chamber of Deputies; 18 of 38 seats in the Senate
Chamber of Deputies
Senate

Parliamentary elections were held in Chile on December 13, 2009, in conjunction with the presidential election.^[1] The totality of seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 18 out of 38 seats in the Senate were up for election.

The centre-right Coalition for Change improved on the Alliance for Chile's result in 2005 by winning 58 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, while the governing center-left Concertación (CPD) was reduced to 57 seats. The election was notable because the election of three communist MP's (Jorge Teillier, Hugo Gutiérrez and Lautaro Carmona) and the defeat of the current Speaker of the Chamber Rodrigo Álvarez (UDI) in hands of a younger (RN) Marcela Sabat. Also is disappointing to the Government not to be able to break the dubbing of the center-right in Las Condes. In the career to the Senate the surprise was Joaquín Lavín's defeat.

Legislation[]

According to the Chilean Constitution, the citizens could exercise the right to suffrage, or, those who have expired 18 years of age and have not been condemned to a sorrow superior to 3 years of prison (a distressing sorrow). To take part in the elections it was needed to be before inscribed in the electoral records and to present the bond of identity. The requirements to register were a 18-year-old major being in the day of the election and to have Chilean nationality or to be a resident foreigner for more than five years in the country (that one credits with a certificate expressed by the respective provincial governor). The right to vote was remaining suspended by interdiction in case of dementia, for being accused by crime that deserves a distressing sorrow or for crime for terrorism and for sanction of the Constitutional Court (in conformity to the article 19 n. º 15 clause 7. º of the Constitution).

In agreement to the legislation of the epoch, the process of inscription in the electoral records was voluntary, but after having registered, the elector was forced to support to perpetuity and only it could apologize for reasons of health or for being located to more than 300 kilometres of distance of the place of voting, fact of the one that can leave witness him in the Carabineers' most nearby unit of Chile. In case of not helping or not to take up office as member of table, the electors could be condemned to the payment of fines. Though on March 27, 2009 there was promulgated by the chairwoman Michelle Bachelet the law that establishes the automatic inscription of the voters and that allows the voluntary voting of these, 4 the entry in force of the above mentioned regulation was not applicable in these elections due to the lack of the law that was regulating sayings procesos.5 The election with voluntary vote materialized in the municipal elections of 2012.

Candidates[]

Concert & Together We Can fore more democracy[]

The Former presidents of Chile, together in a Concertación Conference in 2009.

The A list conformed after the union of two political coalitions that had taken part separately in the elections of 2005. On one hand the Concert of parties for democracy, which was grouping to the center-left parties that since 1990 governed the country. In the other hand the left-wing Together We Can More, that it suffered an internal division after the exit of the Humanist Party.

The reason of this strange union was, the Binomial System that get out the political left from the National Congress since 1994.

The largest party inside the A list was the Christian Democrats, with the leadership of Juan Carlos Latorre who was chief of the Eduardo Frei's presidential campaign. The Socialists joined with the senator Camilo Escalona, PPD with the deputy . The Radicals led by Senator Gómez, and the Communist Party with the leadership of Guillermo Teillier.

Coalition for Change[]

Presentation of the Coalition for the Change. Fernando Flores speaks.

The Alliance for Chile for the elections of 2009, began with an important step, by means of I arrive of two precandidates, one of them the senator Pablo Longueira, and the mayor of Concepción, Jacqueline van Rysselberghe, both of the Independent Democratic Union, who demonstrated his availability of postulating to this post, using the regular conduits inside the coalition, nevertheless, both rejected such an option to present only a presidential candidate, who would be Sebastián Piñera.

In March, 2009, two Congressmen of the Alliance for Chile obtained the speaker of the Senate and the speaker of the Deputies' Chamber, by means of an agreement with the independent bench and with the Concert, respectively. The above mentioned agreements were not lacking in polemic, since the Senator who postulated the alliance to preside at the above mentioned organism, Jovino Novoa, was duramente criticized for personeros of the Concert in view of his past as member of Augusto Pinochet Ugarte's military regime.

In spite of the critiques, the Alliance for Chile awarded a political victory on having presided at both chambers of the National Congress and some of the most influential commissions of the same one, which, they waited in the conglomerate opponent, he was benefiting Sebastián Piñera's candidacy.

After having integrated the list Clean Chile, Vote Happy, one was generated fail between the charter members of ChileFirst with regard to the position that would take the party opposite to the presidential and parliamentary elections of 2009. Whereas Jorge Schaulsohn and Senator Flores supported the candidate of the Alliance for Chile Sebastián Piñera,^[2] the deputy Esteban Valenzuela rejected to join with the center-right and resigned ChileFirst to endorse Marco Enríquez-Ominami's candidacy.^[3] The support to Piñera on the part of ChileFirst was made official on May 6, 2009, when one presented the "Coalition for the Change", electoral agreement between the Alliance for Chile, ChileFirst and other political minor movements.

New Majority for Chile[]

New Majority for Chile was a political coalition that grouped the Ecologist party of Chile, the Humanist Party of Chile, and diverse political and independent movements that supported the candidacy of the independent Marco Enríquez-Ominami for the presidential election of 2009. Between the movements and groups without political legal constitution that they it shaped are the Regionalist Movement,^[4] the Movement Unified of Sexual Minorities (MUMS),^[5] the Movement SurDA and the Progressist Network.^[6]

Slogans[]

Party	Slogan
Christian Democrat	With you, will live better. Live dreaming a new sun
Radical Social Democrat	A change must be Radical
Socialist	Socialist Heart
PPD	Let's break the Ice
Communist	¡United we can!
RN	With your vote today it's possible
UDI	The motor of popular change.
Regionalist	We are hope, We are future
Humanist	We are the new majority

Chilean Chamber of Deputies elections[]


Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–

	Christian Democratic Party	940,265	14.21	19	–1
	Party for Democracy	839,744	12.69	18	–3
	Socialist Party of Chile	653,367	9.88	11	–4
	Social Democratic Radical Party	251,456	3.80	5	–2
	Communist Party of Chile	133,718	2.02	3	+3
	Independents	115,828	1.75	1	–1
Concertación & Juntos Podemos		2,934,378	44.35	57	–8
	Independent Democratic Union	1,525,000	23.05	37	+4
	National Renewal	1,178,392	17.81	18	–1
	ChileFirst	18,021	0.27	0	New
	Independents	153,261	2.32	3	+1
Coalition for Change		2,874,674	43.45	58	+4
	Regionalist Independent Party	264,466	4.00	3	+2
	Broad Social Movement	26,440	0.40	0	New
	Independents	65,892	1.00	0	–
Clean Chile, Vote Happy		356,798	5.39	3	New
	Humanist Party	95,177	1.44	0	0
	Ecologist Party	3,815	0.06	0	New
	Independents	203,635	3.08	0	–
New Majority for Chile		302,627	4.57	0	New
	Independents	147,379	2.23	2	+1
Total		6,615,856	100.00	120	0

Valid votes		6,615,856	91.08
Invalid/blank votes		647,681	8.92
Total votes		7,263,537	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		8,285,186	87.67
Source: SERVEL

List of elected deputies 2010-2014[]

District	Deputy	Party	Votes	%
1^[d]		-PPD	22 425	30,01 %
1^[d]		UDI	17 644	23,61 %
2^[d]	Hugo Gutiérrez Gálvez	PCCh	28 217	30,31 %
2^[d]	Marta Isasi Barbieri	-UDI	28 884	31,02 %
3^[d]	Felipe Ward Edwards	UDI	24 618	37,36 %
3^[d]		PRSD	16 223	24,62 %
4^[d]	Pedro Araya Guerrero	PRI	27 268	24,60 %
4^[d]		UDI	37 241	33,59 %
5^[d]		PCCh	17 022	27,87 %
5^[d]		UDI	13 159	21,55 %
6^[d]	Giovanni Calderón Bassi	UDI	8 330	19,26 %
6^[d]		PRSD	11 582	26,77 %
7^[d]	Marcelo Díaz Díaz	PS	32 673	36,74 %
7^[d]		RN	18 037	20,28 %
8^[d]			28 948	27,21 %
8^[d]			25 919	24,37 %
9^[d]	Adriana Muñoz D'Albora	PPD	15 332	25,29 %
9^[d]	Luis Lemus Aracena	PRI	15 735	25,95 %
10^[d]			30 017	21,94 %
10^[d]	Andrea Molina Oliva	-UDI	36 000	26,31 %
11^[d]		RN	21 634	20,22 %
11^[d]	Marco Antonio Núñez Lozano	PPD	49 801	46,55 %
12^[d]		UDI	30 108	24,75 %
12^[d]		PS	24 124	19,83 %
13^[d]	Aldo Cornejo Gonález		40 582	31,04 %
13^[d]		RN	38 183	29,20 %
14^[d]	Rodrigo González Torres	PPD	41 168	25,89 %
14^[d]		UDI	45 829	28,82 %
15^[d]			18 102	21,11 %
15^[d]		UDI	20 585	24,00 %
16^[d]			48 333	29,39 %
16^[d]	Patricio Melero Abaroa	UDI	58 306	35,45 %
17^[d]	Karla Rubilar Barahona	RN	46 572	33,15 %
17^[d]		PPD	45 798	32,60 %
18^[d]		PPD	51 669	34,35 %
18^[d]	Nicolás Monckeberg Díaz	RN	40 782	27,11 %
19^[d]		PPD	39 126	38,12 %
19^[d]	Claudia Nogueira Fernández	UDI	38 297	37,31 %
20^[d]		PPD	49 981	20,70 %
20^[d]	Mónica Zalaquett Said	UDI	56 168	23,26 %
21^[d]	Jorge Burgos Varela		52 982	29,79 %
21^[d]		RN	48 732	27,40 %
22^[d]	Felipe Harboe Bascuñán	PPD	42 060	38,66 %
22^[d]	Alberto Cardemil Herrera	RN	38 949	35,80 %
23^[d]		UDI	60 272	27,95 %
23^[d]	Cristián Monckeberg Bruner	RN	77 484	35,93 %
24^[d]	Enrique Accorsi Opazo	PPD	31 383	23,19 %
24^[d]		UDI	44 969	33,24 %
25^[d]		PPD	43 794	30,81 %
25^[d]		UDI	28 444	20,01 %
26^[d]	Carlos Montes Cisternas	PS	71 173	50,44 %
26^[d]		UDI	36 438	25,82 %
27^[d]		PPD	47 765	31,89 %
27^[d]	Iván Moreira Barros	UDI	53 683	35,84 %
28^[d]	Guillermo Teillier del Valle	PCCh	49 040	33,52 %
28^[d]		RN	31 882	21,79 %
29^[d]	Osvaldo Andrade Lara	PS	55 152	29,88 %
29^[d]		RN	45 464	24,63 %
30^[d]		PPD	29 335	19,27 %
30^[d]	José Antonio Kast Rist	UDI	53 423	35,10 %

District	Deputy	Party	Votes	%
31^[d]		PS	52 763	32,23 %
31^[d]		UDI	60 833	37,16 %
32^[d]		PS	27 772	30,76 %
32^[d]		UDI	31 346	34,71 %
33^[d]	Ricardo Rincón González		38 057	32,45 %
33^[d]		UDI	26 504	22,60 %
34^[d]	Alejandra Sepúlveda Orbenes	PRI	42 771	45,55 %
34^[d]		UDI	17 130	18,24 %
35^[d]	Juan Carlos Latorre Carmona		30 300	38,83 %
35^[d]		UDI	29 622	37,96 %
36^[d]			51 476	42,93 %
36^[d]		UDI	35 732	29,80 %
37^[d]		PS	31 649	37,69 %
37^[d]		RN	32 864	39,14 %
38^[d]	Pablo Lorenzini Basso		29 320	38,32 %
38^[d]		-UDI	15 844	20,71 %
39^[d]		PPD	38 626	46,26 %
39^[d]		UDI	22 487	26,93 %
40^[d]	Guillermo Ceroni Fuentes	PPD	32 643	44,75 %
40^[d]		UDI	19 323	26,49 %
41^[d]		PRSD	24 093	19,12 %
41^[d]		RN	42 385	33,64 %
42^[d]			32 174	28,59 %
42^[d]		RN	22 861	20,33 %
43^[d]		PPD	33 622	31,35 %
43^[d]	Jorge Ulloa Aguillón	UDI	30 309	28,26 %
44^[d]			45 379	27,04 %
44^[d]		UDI	44 735	26,65 %
45^[d]		PS	38 379	33,80 %
45^[d]		UDI	29 272	25,78 %
46^[d]		UDI	34 852	35,77 %
46^[d]		PS	30 360	31,16 %
47^[d]		PRSD	46 606	33,80 %
47^[d]		UDI	51 937	37,67 %
48^[d]			20 102	29,80 %
48^[d]		UDI	17 223	25,54 %
49^[d]	Fuad Chahín Valenzuela		20 212	30,26 %
49^[d]		UDI	16 009	23,97 %
50^[d]			37 017	30,83 %
50^[d]		RN	33 785	28,14 %
51^[d]		PPD	16 327	24,36 %
51^[d]		RN	11 275	16,82 %
52^[d]		PRSD	22 116	32,72 %
52^[d]		RN	20 726	30,66 %
53^[d]		PS	32 433	38,71 %
53^[d]	Roberto Delmastro Naso	RN	25 360	30,27 %
54^[d]		PPD	29 004	37,43 %
54^[d]		UDI	19 978	25,78 %
55^[d]	Sergio Ojeda Uribe		23 623	30,44 %
55^[d]		UDI	22 108	28,49 %
56^[d]		PS	39 245	51,30 %
56^[d]		UDI	18 792	24,57 %
57^[d]			33 782	38,60 %
57^[d]		UDI	28 552	32,62 %
58^[d]	Gabriel Ascencio Mansilla		17 457	23,10 %
58^[d]	Alejandro Santana Tirachini	RN	27 098	35,86 %
59^[d]	René Alinco Bustos	PPD	9381	22,90 %
59^[d]		UDI	12 902	31,50 %
60^[d]	Carolina Goic Boroevic		22 498	34,00 %
60^[d]			17 512	26,47 %

Chilean Senate elections[]

↓
17	1	19	1
Coalition for Change	Ind	Concert & Together We Can

↓
8	8	1	1	9	1	4	5	1
UDI	RN		Ind	PDC		PPD	PS

Includes results from 9,793 out of 9,934 ballot boxes (98.58%). (Source: Interior Ministry.)
	Parties		Candidates	Elected (2009)	Old seats (2005)	Total seats	% of Seats	Net Change in seats	% of Votes	Number of Votes
Concert & Together We Can for more democracy	Total List A		18	9	10	19	50.0	-1	43.3	820,147
		PDC	8	4	5	9	23.7	+3	16.6	314,145
		For Democracy	4	3	1	4	10.5	+1	13.8	262,503
		Socialist	4	2	3	5	13.2	-3	9.2	175,017
		Social Democrat Radical	2	0	1	1	2.6	-2	3.6	68,482
Coalition for Change	Total List B		17	9	7	16	42.1	-1	45.2	856,593
		National Renewal	8	6	2	8	21.0		20.2	382,728
		UDI	7	3	5	8	21.0	-1	21.3	403,741
	Independents List B		2	0	0	0	0.0		3.7	70,124
Clean Chile, Vote Happy	Total List D		10	0	1	1	2.6	-1	6.4	122,041
		Regionalist	6	0	0	0	0.0	-1	2.4	46,730
		MAS	0	0	1	1	2.6		Did not contest
	Independents List D		4	0	0	0	0.0		4.0	75,311
New Majority for Chile	Total List C		7	0	0	0	0.0		4.9	92,240
		Humanist	4	0	0	0	0.0		0.7	12,974
	Independents List C		3	0	0	0	0.0		4.2	79,266
Independents out of pact			1	0	1	1	2.6		0.2	4,461

Tarapacá-Arica and Parinacota[]


		Candidate	Votes	%	Result
Coalition for Change	UDI		56,390	33.5	Hold his seat
Clean Chile, Vote Happy	Independent		47,087	29.3
Concertación	Socialist	Fulvio Rossi	45,639	26.8	New senator
Coalition for Change	National Renewal		12,348	7.3
Concertación	PDC	Daniel Espinoza	6,919	4.1

Atacama[]


		Candidate	Votes	%	Result
Coalition for Change	National Renewal	Baldo Prokurica	34,793	33.0	Hold his seat
Concertación	Socialist	Isabel Allende Bussi	28,240	26.8	New senator
Concertación	For Democracy	Antonio Leal	19,693	18.7
Clean Chile, Vote Happy	Regionalist		18,580	17.6
Clean Chile, Vote Happy	Regionalist	Robinson Peña	2,126	2.0
Coalition for Change	UDI	Cristián Letelier	1,909	1.8

Valparaiso East[]


		Candidate	Votes	%	Result
Concertación	PDC	Ignacio Walker	76,716	21.1	New senator
Concertación	Social Democrat Radical		64,124	17.6	Lost his seat
Coalition for Change	UDI		71,645	19.7
Coalition for Change	National Renewal	Lily Pérez	83,595	23.0	New senator
New Majority for Chile	Independent	Carlos Ominami	60,945	16.7
New Majority for Chile	Independent		2,509	0.7
Clean Chile, Vote Happy	Independent	Lautaro Velásquez	4,422	1.2

Valparaíso West[]


		Candidate	Votes	%	Result
Concertación	For Democracy	Ricardo Lagos Weber	123,626	33.2	New senator
Coalition for Change	National Renewal	Francisco Chahuán	105,123	28.2	New senator
Coalition for Change	UDI	Joaquín Lavín	103,762	27.9
Concertación	PDC	Hernán Pinto	22,447	6.00
New Majority for Chile	Independent		14,784	4.0
Clean Chile, Vote Happy	Regionalist	Raúl Silva	2,773	0.7

Maule North[]


		Candidate	Votes	%	Result
Coalition for Change	UDI		96,844	35.2	Hold his seat
Concertación	PDC	Andrés Zaldívar	86,266	31.3	Holding in a new seat
Concertación	Socialist		67,586	24.6	Lost his seat
Coalition for Change	National Renewal	Robert Morrison	17,548	6.3
New Majority for Chile	Humanist	Mercedes Bravo	6,942	2.5

Maule South[]


		Candidate	Votes	%	Result
Coalition for Change	UDI	Hernán Larraín	67,461	43.1	Hold his seat
Concertación	PDC	Ximena Rincón	48,607	31.0	New senator
Concertación	Socialist		32,867	21.0	Lost his seat
Coalition for Change	Independent	Juan Ariztía	6,110	3.9
New Majority for Chile	Humanist	Marilén Cabrera	1,567	1.0

Araucanía North[]


Pact			Candidate	Votes	%	Result
	Coalition for Change	National Renewal	Alberto Espina	52,082	38.5	Hold his seat
	Concertación	For Democracy	Jaime Quintana	40,120	29.7	New senator
	Concertación	PDC	Tomás Jocelyn-Holt	7,481	5.5
	Coalition for Change	Independent	Cecilia Villouta	7,255	5.4
	New Majority for Chile	Humanist	Juan Enrique Prieto	1,611	1.2
	Clean Chile, Vote Happy	Independent		20,126	14.9
	Clean Chile, Vote Happy	Independent	Enrique Sanhueza	6,574	4.9
Source^[7]

Araucanía South[]


Pact			Candidate	Votes	%	Result
	Concertación	For Democracy		74,207	29.1	New senator
	Coalition for Change	National Renewal		57,260	22.4	Hold his seat
	Coalition for Change	UDI	Ena von Baer	56,578	22.2
	Concertación	PDC		51,338	20.1
	Clean Chile, Vote Happy	Regionalist		11,464	4.5
	New Majority for Chile	Humanist	Luis Fernando Vivanco	2,779	1.1
	Clean Chile, Vote Happy	Independent	José Villagrán	1,512	0.6
Source^[8]

Aysen[]


Pact			Candidate	Votes	%	Result
	Coalition for Change	National Renewal	Antonio Horvath	14,193	34.6	Hold his seat
	Concertación	PDC	Patricio Walker	11,293	27.5	New senator
	Clean Chile, Vote Happy	Regionalist	Eduardo Cruces	6,958	17.0
	Clean Chile, Vote Happy	Regionalist	Paz Foitzich	4,613	11.2
	Concertación	Social Democrat Radical	Ernesto Velasco	3,940	9.6
Source^[9]

References[]

^ Cronograma Electoral Archived 2011-06-17 at the Wayback Machine, Servel
^ Infinita, Schaulsohn se Asume Piñerista Archived 2009-05-24 at the Wayback Machine
^ La Nación, Valenzuela dejó Chile Primero por apoyo a Piñera
^ http://www.regionalistas.cl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=30&Itemid=28^{[permanent dead link]} Acuerdo entre el el PH, PE, el Movimiento Regionalista, Progresistas en Red y el MUMS
^ http://www.mums.cl/sitio/contenidos/noticias/not_2009_09_14_01.htm Archived 2016-03-05 at the Wayback Machine Mums inscribe candidatos por la diversidad sexual al Parlamento
^ http://www.tomashirsch.cl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=216:fuerzas-progresistas-alternativas-y-de-izquierda-acuerdan-lista-parlamentaria-que-busca-aglutinar-nueva-mayoria-&catid=9:noticias^{[permanent dead link]} Acuerdan lista parlamentaria para aglutinar nueva mayoría
^ "Votación Candidatos por Circunscripción 14". Sitio histórico electoral. Archived from the original on 23 July 2011. Retrieved 27 July 2011.
^ Elecciones.gov.cl Archived 2010-05-28 at the Wayback Machine Votación candidatos por Cicunscripción 15, La Araucanía Sur, senadores 2009
^ Elecciones.gov.cl Archived 2010-05-28 at the Wayback Machine Votación candidatos por Cicunscripción 18, Aysén, senadores 2009

External links[]

Results down to communal level (Interior Ministry)
Results by ballot box^{[permanent dead link]} (Tricel)

[1] Cronograma Electoral Archived 2011-06-17 at the Wayback Machine, Servel

[2] Infinita, Schaulsohn se Asume Piñerista Archived 2009-05-24 at the Wayback Machine

[3] La Nación, Valenzuela dejó Chile Primero por apoyo a Piñera

[4] ttp://www.regionalistas.cl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=30&Itemid=28^{[permanent dead link]} Acuerdo entre el el PH, PE, el Movimiento Regionalista, Progresistas en Red y el MUMS

[5] ttp://www.mums.cl/sitio/contenidos/noticias/not_2009_09_14_01.htm Archived 2016-03-05 at the Wayback Machine Mums inscribe candidatos por la diversidad sexual al Parlamento

[6] ttp://www.tomashirsch.cl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=216:fuerzas-progresistas-alternativas-y-de-izquierda-acuerdan-lista-parlamentaria-que-busca-aglutinar-nueva-mayoria-&catid=9:noticias^{[permanent dead link]} Acuerdan lista parlamentaria para aglutinar nueva mayoría

[7] "Votación Candidatos por Circunscripción 14". Sitio histórico electoral. Archived from the original on 23 July 2011. Retrieved 27 July 2011.

[8] Elecciones.gov.cl Archived 2010-05-28 at the Wayback Machine Votación candidatos por Cicunscripción 15, La Araucanía Sur, senadores 2009

[9] Elecciones.gov.cl Archived 2010-05-28 at the Wayback Machine Votación candidatos por Cicunscripción 18, Aysén, senadores 2009

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