Coalition of Parties for Democracy

The coalition of parties for democracy ( Spanish Concertación de Partidos por la Democracia ) was a coalition of center-left - parties in Chile from 1988 to 2013. It is from the opposition alliance Concertación de Partidos por el No emerged that the plebiscite of 1989 advocated free elections (and against an extension of the dictatorship, therefore "No"). Since the end of the military dictatorship under Augusto Pinochet , between 1990 and 2010, with Patricio Aylwin , Eduardo Frei , Ricardo Lagos and Michelle Bachelet until the presidency of Sebastián Piñera, all Chilean presidents came from the Concertación camp. Together with other parties, the Concertación formed the Nueva Mayoría alliance in 2013 .

Member parties

The following parties formed the Concertación:

• Partido Demócrata Cristiano , PDC (Christian Democratic Party of Chile)
• Partido por la Democracia , PPD (Party for Democracy)
• Partido Socialista de Chile , PS (Socialist Party of Chile)
• Partido Radical Social Demócrata , PRSD (Radical Social Democratic Party)

The moderate left parties PS and PPD are about as strong as the Christian Democratic PDC. Therefore, the much smaller PRSD often played a decisive role. The seat of the party alliance was also located at the headquarters of the PRSD in the Barrio París-Londres in the city center of Santiago de Chile.

Election results

Source:

Unlike in Germany, there are large differences between the sexes in Chile when it comes to voting behavior. In all major national elections since 1989, women have tended to vote on the right and men on the left. In the 2005 presidential election, left-wing candidate Bachelet was able to reverse this tendency.

Presidential election

Presidential election

alliance	1989	1993	1999 (runoff election 2000)	2005 (runoff election 2006)
Concertación	55.2% ( Aylwin , PDC )	57.9% ( free , PDC )	47.96% (51.3%) ( Lagos , PS )	46.0% (54%) ( Bachelet , PS )
Alianza por Chile	29.4% / 15.4% ( Büchi / Errázuriz )	24.3% ( Alessandri , UDI )	47.51% (48.7%) ( Lavín , UDI )	25.4% / 23.2% (46%) ( Piñera , RN / Lavín , UDI , ( Piñera ))

House of Representatives

Seats in the House of Representatives (120 seats in total)
(in brackets: percentage of votes cast)

alliance	Political party	1989	1993	1997	2001	2005
Concertación	PDC	38 (26%)	37 (27%)	38 (23%)	31 (25%)	20th
	PS	-	15 (12%)	11 (11%)	10 (10%)	16
	PPD	16 (11%)	15 (12%)	16 (13%)	20 (13%)	22nd
	PRSD	0 (0%)	-	4 (3%)	6 (4%)	7th
together		69 (51%)	70 (55%)	69 (51%)	62 (48%)	65 (51.8%)
Alianza por Chile	UDI	11 (10%)	15 (12%)	17 (14%)	31 (25%)	34
	RN	29 (18%)	29 (16%)	23 (17%)	18 (14%)	20th
together		48 (34%)	50 (37%)	47 (36%)	57 (44%)	54 (38.7%)

senate

The Senate was fully elected in 1989 (38 elected). There were also 9 appointed senators (abolished in 2006), most of whom were on the side of the Alianza. In the years 1993, 2001, 2009 ... in the regions I., III., V., VII., IX., XI. elected and in 1997, 2005, ... in regions II., IV. VI., VIII., X., XII. and Metropolitana. Regions I.–IV. and X.-XII. provide two senators and the regions V.–IX. and Metropolitana four each. That is why 18 and 20 new Senate seats are alternately elected. Voting is also based on the binomial voting system . So far, in every election in every region, the Senate seats have been allocated symmetrically to the Concertación and the Alianza pro Chile (or their predecessor alliances), except

• 1989 in the VI. Region (O'Higgins): 2 Concertación, 0 Alianza
• 1989 in Region VII (Maule): 3 Concertación, 1 Alianza
• 1989 in the XII. Region (Magallanes): 2 Concertación, 0 Alianza
• 1993 in the VII region (Maule): 4 Concertación, 2 Alianza
• 1997 in the XIII: Region (Bío Bío): 3 Concertación, 1 Alianza

Seat in the Senate. It consists of 38 elected senators, half of which are elected every 4 years. By 2005 there were an additional 9 senators appointed .
(In brackets proportion of the votes cast)

alliance	Political party	1989 (38 seats)	1993 (18)	1997 (20)	2001 (18)	2005 (20)
Concertación	PDC				12	6th
	PS
	PPD
	PRSD
re-elected together		22nd	10	11	10	11 (55.7%)
Seat in the Senate		22nd	22nd	21st	20th	20th
Alianza por Chile	UDI
	RN
re-elected together		16	8th	9	8th	8 (37.2%)
Seat in the Senate		16	16	17th	18th	18th

See also

• Political system of Chile
• Presidential elections in Chile (2005/2006)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Official election results ( Memento of the original from December 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.