Elections in Uruguay in 1950

The presidential and parliamentary elections in Uruguay in 1950 took place on Sunday, November 26, 1950 .

The Partido Colorado , to which two sublemas belonged, emerged victorious from the presidential and parliamentary elections that took place at the same time . Andrés Martínez Trueba ( Lista 15 ) of the Partido Colorado was elected 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: 53.5% (the two strongest Sublema: Batllismo: 41.4%; Libertad y Justicia: 12.1%)
• Partido Nacional : 31.3%
• other parties: 15.2%

The distribution of seats in the Cámara de Senadores :

• Partido Colorado: 56.7%
• Partido Nacional: 33.3%
• Other parties:
  • Partido Nacional Independiente 6.7%

literature

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