2004 elections in Uruguay

The 2004 presidential and parliamentary elections in Uruguay took place on Sunday, October 31, 2004 .

The President, Vice-President, 30 Senators and 99 MPs were elected. The winner Tabaré Vázquez received 50.45% of the vote and thus achieved an absolute majority. A runoff election was therefore unnecessary.

Candidates

Each party had chosen its candidate in the Uruguay 2004 presidential election primaries in June:

image	Political party	Surname
	Front Amplio	Tabaré Vázquez
	Partido Nacional	Jorge Larrañaga
	Partido Colorado	Guillermo Stirling
	Partido Independiente	Pablo Mieres
	Partido intransigents	Víctor Lissidini
	Unión Cívica	Aldo Lamorte
	Partido Liberal	Julio Vera
	Partido de los Trabajadores	Rafael Fernández

Result

The following result was officially announced by the Uruguayan Electoral Court on November 6, 2004. On November 8, 2004, Vázquez was appointed President. He took up this post as the successor to Jorge Batlle Ibáñez on March 1 of the following year. This was the first time that the country was ruled by a president who came from the left-wing political spectrum and who did not belong to the two large parties, the Partido Nacional and Partido Colorado , which had dominated political events in Uruguay .

Presidential candidate	Number of votes	percent	Party - coalition
Tabaré Vázquez	1,124,761	50.45%	EP-FA-NM
Jorge Larrañaga	764.739	34.30%	Partido Nacional
Guillermo Stirling	231.036	10.36%	Partido Colorado
Pablo Mieres	41,011	1.84%	Partido Independiente
Víctor Lissidini	8,572	0.38%	Partido intransigents
Aldo Lamorte	4,859	0.22%	Unión Cívica
Julio Vera	1,548	0.07%	Partido Liberal
Rafael Fernández	513	0.02%	Partido de los Trabajadores
Invalid votes	21,383	0.96%
Votos en blanco	31,031	1.39%
Votos observados anulados	158	0.01%
Votes cast	2,229,611	100%
Number of eligible voters	2,488,004

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Official statistics of the 2004 election results on the Corte Electoral website

Web links

• Electoral Justice in Uruguay (in Spanish)