Elections in Uruguay in 1958

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The government and parliamentary elections in Uruguay in 1958 took place on Sunday, November 30, 1958 .

The Partido Nacional , to which three Sublemas belonged, emerged victorious from the government and parliamentary elections that took place at the same time , and for the first time in many decades it inflicted a defeat on the Partido Colorado , to which two Sublema belonged.

In the elections, the electoral system of which was based on the relative majority in the Lema system , both the collegiate executive, the so-called Consejo Nacional de Gobierno (CNG), and the deputies and senators were elected for a term of four years by proportional representation. On March 1, 1959, the Consejo Nacional de Gobierno took office with a majority of the Herrero-ruralist sublema. 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 sublema of the majority party (i.e. the Partido Nacional) and the two groups that unite in the minority party.

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

  • Partido Nacional: 51.5% (the two strongest sublema: Unión Blanca Democrática : 25.3%; Herrera parliamentary group: 24.2%)
  • Partido Colorado: 38.5% (the two strongest Sublema: Lista 15 (fraction Luís Batlle Berres): 26.3%; Lista 14 (traditional Batllismo faction): 12.2%)
  • other parties: 10.0%

The distribution of seats in the Cámara de Senadores :

  • Partido Nacional: 54.8%
  • Partido Colorado: 38.7%
  • Other parties: 6.4%

literature

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

Web links

Individual evidence

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