1984 Uruguayan general election

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General elections were held in Uruguay on 25 November 1984, the first since the 1973 coup. Since then the country had been run by a civic-military dictatorship. The electoral process was considered transparent and marked the end of the dictatorship.

The Colorado Party received more votes than any other party, resulting in one of its presidential candidates, Julio María Sanguinetti, was elected president as under the multi-candidate Ley de Lemas system in effect at the time, the highest-finishing candidate of the party that received the most votes was elected president. The Colorado Party also won the most seats in the Chamber of Deputies and Senate although not a majority.

The election was not without irregularities. A number of politicians were prohibited from running in the election.

Results



Party		Presidential candidate	Votes	%	Seats
Party		Presidential candidate	Votes	%	Chamber	+/–	Senate	+/–
	Colorado Party	Julio María Sanguinetti	588,143	31.18	41	0	13	0
		Jorge Pacheco Areco	183,588	9.73
		al lema	5,970	0.32
		Total	777,701	41.23
	National Party	Alberto Zumarán	554,443	29.39	35	–5	11	–1
		Dardo Ortiz	83,237	4.41
		Juan Carlos Payssé	21,644	1.15
		al lema	1,449	0.08
		Total	660,773	35.03
	Broad Front	Juan José Crottogini	401,104	21.26	21	3	6	+1
	Civic Union	Juan Vicente Chiarino	45,841	2.43	2	New	0	New
	Workers' Party	Juan Vital Andrada	488	0.03	0	New	0	New
	Patriotic Union	Néstor Bolentini	302	0.02	0	New	0	New
	Socialist Convergence	Carlos Ceriotti	153	0.01	0	New	0	New
Total			1,886,362	100.00	99	0	30	0

Valid votes			1,886,362	97.69
Invalid/blank votes			44,569	2.31
Total votes			1,930,931	100.00
Registered voters/turnout			2,197,503	87.87
Source: Electoral Court

References

Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II, p. 494 ISBN 978-0-19-928358-3
Panizza, Francisco E. (1985). "The Uruguayan election of 1984". Electoral Studies. 4 (3): 265–271. doi:10.1016/0261-3794(85)90020-4. ISSN 0261-3794.
Gillespie, Charles G. (1985). "Uruguay's Return to Democracy". Bulletin of Latin American Research. 4 (2): 99–107. doi:10.2307/3338320. ISSN 0261-3050.
"Remembering the 1984 elections". 25 November 2008. Retrieved 17 May 2012.
Finch, Henry (1985). "Democratisation in Uruguay". Third World Quarterly. 7 (3): 594–609. ISSN 0143-6597.
^ "Uruguayan Election Ending Military Rule". The Washington Post. 1984.
"URUGUAY HITS SNAGS IN PLANNING 1984 ELECTION". 1981. Archived from the original on 24 May 2015.

External links

Politics Data Bank at the Social Sciences School – Universidad de la República (Uruguay)

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