Elections in Uruguay in 1966

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The 1966 general election in Uruguay took place on Sunday, November 27, 1966. The presidential and parliamentary elections were held at the same time.

Election results

From the elections, the Partido Colorado , which included four sublema , emerged victorious from the Partido Nacional , which included three sublema . With the election, the existing system of collegiate executive ended. In a referendum, with the approval of a little more than half of the electorate, it was decided to return to the unipersonal executive system, which, due to the constitutional reform carried out in 1966, gave the president the greatest formal power to date with expanded legislative powers.

Oscar Gestido 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 by proportional representation for a term of office of five years.

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

  • Partido Colorado: 50.5% (the two strongest sublema: Gestido / Pacheco fraction: 25.3%; Unidad y Reforma (fraction Jorge Batlle, followed Lista 15 ): 18.2%)
  • Partido Nacional: 41.4% (the two strongest sublema: Herrerismo-Ruralismo: 19.2%; Unión Blanca Democrática : 14.1%)
  • other parties: 8.1%

The distribution of seats in the Cámara de Senadores :

  • Partido Colorado: 53.3%
  • Partido Nacional: 43.3%
  • other parties: 3.3%

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

Individual evidence

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