Elections in Uruguay in 1954

The government and parliamentary elections in Uruguay in 1954 took place on Sunday, November 28, 1954 .

From the simultaneous government and parliamentary elections, the Partido Colorado , which included three sublemas , emerged victorious, while the Partido Nacional was defeated, which also included three sublema.

In the elections, whose electoral system was based on the relative majority in the so-called Lema system , both the nine-member collegiate executive, the so-called Consejo Nacional de Gobierno (CNG), which was reintroduced with the constitutional amendment of 1952 , as well as the 99 deputies and 31 senators in the Elected by proportional representation for a four-year term. On March 1, 1955, the Consejo Nacional de Gobierno took office with a majority of the Lista 15 . It was composed of nine members. These council members were - in a ratio of 2: 1 (six council members / three council members) - by the strongest subema of the majority party (i.e. the Partido Colorado) and the two groups that united in the minority party.

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

• Partido Colorado: 51.5% (the two strongest sublema: Lista 15 (fraction Luís Batlle Berres): 33.3%; Lista 14 (traditional Batllismo faction): 15.2%)
• Partido Nacional: 35.4% (the two strongest sublema: Herrera faction: 22.2%; Movimiento Popular Nacionalista : 12.1%)
• other parties: 13.1%

The distribution of seats in the Cámara de Senadores :

• Partido Colorado: 54.8%
• Partido Nacional: 35.5%
• Other parties: 6.4%

Election result related to the parties

• Eligible voters: 1,295,502
• Valid votes: 879,242
• Turnout: 67.86%

Political party	be right	percentage
Partido Colorado	444.429	50.5%
Partido Nacional	309.818	35.24%
Partido Nacional Independiente	32,341	3.68%
Partido Unión Cívica del Uruguay	44,255	5.03%
Partido Socialista	28,704	3.26%
Partido Comunista del Uruguay	19,541	2.22%
Partido Frente Anticolegialista del Pueblo	89	0.01%
Partido Obrero	65	0.01%
Valid votes	879.242	100%

Reference for this table:

literature

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

Web links

• Official result at www.corteelectoral.gub.uy (Spanish), accessed May 28, 2012

Individual evidence

1. ↑ historiareciente (Spanish) in El País , accessed on May 27, 2012 (PDF; 1.6 MB)
2. ↑ Official result on www.corteelectoral.gub.uy ( Memento of the original from June 28, 2009 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. (Spanish), Retrieved May 28, 2012