Elections in Uruguay in 1946

The presidential and parliamentary elections in Uruguay in 1946 took place on Sunday, November 24, 1946 .

The Partido Colorado , to which three sublemas belonged, emerged victorious from the presidential and parliamentary elections that took place at the same time . Tomás Berreta of the Partido Colorado was elected President. He took office on March 1, 1947. Luis Batlle Berres became vice-president . 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: 47.5% (the two strongest sublema each received 11.1% of the vote)
• Partido Nacional : 31.3%
• other parties: 21.2%

The distribution of seats in the Cámara de Senadores :

• Partido Colorado: 50%
• Partido Nacional: 33.3%
• Other parties:
  • Partido Nacional Independiente 10%
  • others: 6.6%

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; 1.6 MB)