Elections in Uruguay in 1962

The 1962 government and parliamentary elections in Uruguay took place on Sunday, November 25, 1962.

The Partido Nacional , to which three sublemas belonged, emerged victorious from the government and parliamentary elections that took place at the same time . The Partido Colorado , to which four Sublema belonged, lost again four years after the historic election victory of the Blancos.

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, 1963, the Consejo Nacional de Gobierno took office with a majority from Ubedoxia . This was an alliance between Unión Blanca Democrática and Orthodox rulership . The latter included, for example, Víctor Haedo , Alberto Heber and Luis Giannattasio . The CNG consisted 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: 47.5% (the two strongest Sublema: Unión Blanca Democrática : 20.2%; Herrera - Por la Reforma : 20.2%)
• Partido Colorado: 44.4% (the two strongest sublema: Por la Unión del Partido : 28.3%; Unión Colorada y Batllista : 7.1%)
• other parties: 8.1%

The distribution of seats in the Cámara de Senadores :

• Partido Nacional: 48.2%
• Partido Colorado: 45.2%
• 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

• www.corteelectoral.gub.uy (Spanish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ historiareciente (Spanish) in El País , accessed on May 27, 2012 (PDF; 1.6 MB)