Elections in Uruguay in 1942

The presidential and parliamentary elections in Uruguay in 1942 took place on Sunday, November 29, 1942 .

The Partido Colorado , to which five sublemas belonged, emerged victorious from the presidential and parliamentary elections that took place at the same time . Juan José de Amézaga of the Partido Colorado was elected president. He took office on March 1, 1943. In the elections, the electoral system of which was based on the relative majority in the so-called Lema system , both the president and the deputies and senators were elected for a term of four years by proportional representation.

The distribution of seats for the House of Representatives was as follows:

• Partido Colorado: 58.6% (the two strongest Sublema: Batllismo: 34.3%; Libertad y Justicia: 14.1%)
• Partido Nacional : 23.2%
• other parties: 18.2%

The distribution of seats in the Cámara de Senadores :

• Partido Colorado: 63.2%
• Partido Nacional: 23.4%
• Other parties:
  • Partido Nacional Independiente 10%
  • other: 3.4%

literature

• Bernhard Thibaut : Presidentialism and Democracy in Latin America - Chapter 3.5: Uruguay (1942-1973) , p. 163ff, Leske and Budrich, Opladen 1996

Web links

• www.corteelectoral.gub.uy (Spanish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ historiareciente (Spanish) in El País , accessed on May 27, 2012 (PDF; 1.50 MB)