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HISTORICAL ELECTORAL RESULTS

Historical Electoral Results

Presidential Elections 1958 – 2006

 ( including  the 1988 Plebiscite )

YEAR

CANDIDATE

VOTES

%

 

1958

Jorge Alessandri (R)

389.909

31,2

Elected*

Salvador Allende (L)

356.493

28,5

 

Eduardo Frei Montalva (C)

255.769

20,5

 

Luis Bossay (C-L)

192.077

15,4

 

Antonio Zamorano ( I )

41.304

3,3

 

 

 

 

 

1964

Eduardo Frei Montalva (C)

1.409.012

55,7

Elected

Salvador Allende (L)

977.902

38,6

 

Julio Durán (R)

125.233

5,0

 

 

 

 

 

1970

Salvador Allende (L)

1.070.334

36,2

Elected*

Jorge Alessandri (R)

1.031.159

34,9

 

Radomiro Tomic (C)

821.801

27,8

 

1988

PLEBISCITE **

Yes

3.119.110

43,0

 

No

3.967.579

54,7

Winner

1989

Patricio Aylwin (C-L)

3.850.571

55,2

Elected

Hernán Büchi (R)

2.052.116

29,4

 

Francisco J. Errázuriz (C-R)

1.077.172

15,4

 

1993

Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle (C-L)

4.040.402

58,0

Elected

Arturo Alessandri Besa (R)

1.701.324

24,4

 

José Piñera (R)

430.950

6,2

 

Manfred Max Neef (L)

387.102

5,6

 

Eugenio Pizarro (L)

327.402

4,7

 

Cristián Reítze (L)

81.675

1,2

 

1999

 

 

 

Run-off

   (January        2000)

Ricardo Lagos (C-L)

3.383.339

47,9

Run-off

Joaquín Lavin (R)

3.352.199

47,5

Run-off

Gladis Marín (L)

225.224

3,2

 

Tomás Hirsch (L)

36.235

0,5

 

Sara Larraín (L)

31.319

0,4

 

Arturo Frei Bolívar (R)

28.812

0,4

 

 

 

 

 

Ricardo Lagos

3.683.158

51,3

Elected

Joaquín Lavin

3.495.569

48,7

 

    2005

 

 

 

   Run-off

   (January

       2006)

Sebastián Piñera (R)        1.751.866   24.5 Run-off
Michelle Bachelet ( C-L)       3.167.939  46,0 Run-off
Tomás Hirsh (L)          372.609    5,4  
Joaquín Lavín (R)        1.601.169   23,2  
       
Sebastián Piñera        3.227.658   46,5  
Michelle Bachelet        3.712.902   53,5 Elected
       

Political positions: R= right; L=left; C=center; C-R=center right;

C-L= center-left; I= independent

Elected*= Not directly but by the majority vote of the Full Congress.

** 1988 Plebiscite to decide extension of Presidency of Augusto Pinochet for 8 additional years. A no majority result implied that new presidential elections would be held in 1989.

 

Parliamentary Elections  (Deputies) 1937-1973

Voting percentage obtained by the main political parties

 

Political Parties

1937

1941

1945

1949

1953

1957

1961

1965

1969

1973

Right Liberal
Conservative
National

20,7

14,0

20,1

19,3

10,9

15,4

16,1

7,3

--

--

21,3

17,2

23,6

22,7

14,4

17,6

14,3

5,2

--

--

--

--

--

--

--

--

--

--

20,0

21,3

Center Radical
Christian Democrat
Democrat
Agrarian-Labor

18,7

23,0

19,9

27,7

15,6

22,1

21,4

13,3

13,0

3,7

--

3,4

2,6

3,9

2,9

9,4

15,4

42,3

29,8

29,1

9,4

5,7

5,4

6,8

5,6

5,0

6,9

--

--

--

--

--

--

8,3

18,9

7,8

--

--

--

--

Left Socialist
Communist

11,2

22,1

12,8

9,4

14,2

10,7

10,7

10,3

12,2

18,7

4,2

11,8

10,3

--

--

--

11,4

12,4

15,9

16,2

Others

14,5

2,8

5,3

1,9

17,5

12,0

3,8

9,2

9,1

11,0

Total

100,0

100,0

100,0

100,0

100,0

100,0

100,0

100,0

100,0

100,0

 

 

Parliamentary Elections (Deputies) 1989 – 2005

 

1989

COALITION

 

VOTES

%

CANDIDATES

ELECTED

Concertación (C-L)

3.499.713

51,5

116

69

Democracia y Progreso (R)

2.323.581

34,2

119

48

Partido del Sur ( I )

47.387

0,7

16

0

Alianza de Centro ( I )

177.942

2,6

62

0

Liberal-Socialista chileno ( I )

206.138

3,0

38

0

Partido Nacional (R)

53.819

0,8

18

0

Unidad para la Democracia (L)

360.601

5,3

31

2

Independents (out of coalition)

127.941

1,9

19

1

 

1993

COALITION

 

VOTES

%

CANDIDATES

ELECTED

Alternativa Democrática de Izquierda (L)

430.495

6,4

92

0

Unión por el Progreso de Chile (R)

2.471.789

36,7

120

50

La Nueva Izquierda (L)

96.195

1,4

48

0

Concertación (C-L)

3.733.276

55,4

120

70

Independents (out of coalition)

7.104

0,1

4

0

 

1997

COALITION

 

VOTES

    %

 CANDIDATES

   ELECTED

Humanista (L)

168.597

    2,9

90

0

Unión por Chile (R)

  2.101.392

   36,3

119

47

Concertación (C-L)

  2.927.692

   50,5

120

69

La Izquierda (L)

     434.148

    7,5

86

0

Chile 2000 ( I )

     123.922

    2,1

25

2

Independents (out of coalition)

  40.022

    0,7

2

2

 

2001

COALITION

 

VOTES

%

CANDIDATES

ELECTED

Partido Comunista (L)

320.688

5,2

80

0

Partido Humanista (L)

69.692

1,1

42

0

Alianza por Chile (R)

2.720.195

44,3

119

57

Concertación (C-L)

2.942.989

47,9

120

62

Independents (out of coalition)

86.964

1,4

16

1

 

2005

COALITION

 

VOTES

%

CANDIDATES

ELECTED

Fuerza Regional Independiente (I)

76.582

1,2

23

1

Juntos Podemos Más (L)

482.507

7,4

115

0

Alianza por Chile (R)

2.522.558

38,7

120

54

Concertación (C-L)

3.374.865

51,8

120

64

Independents (out of coalition)

61.489

0,9

8

1

Political positions: R= right; L=left; C=center; C-R=center right;

C-L= center-left; I= independent


 

 

 

 


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