1994 Uruguayan general election

General elections were held in Uruguay on 27 November 1994, alongside a double referendum.[1] The result was a narrow victory for the Colorado Party, which won the most seats in the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate and received the most votes in the presidential election.

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Tabaré Vázquez of the Broad Front received the most votes of any presidential candidate. However, former president Julio Maria Sanguinetti returned to office by virtue of the Colorados receiving the most votes of any party. Under the multi-candidate Ley de Lemas system in effect at the time, the highest-finishing candidate of the party that won the most votes was elected president. Vázquez finished with just 12,100 fewer votes than the combined vote for the runner-up National Party. At the time, this was the best showing for a third party since the presidential system was reinstituted with the 1967 constitution.

They were the last presidential elections conducted under the Ley de Lemas system, which had been used for much of the 20th century and had been reinstituted in 1967. In 1996, a referendum amended the constitution to restrict each party to a single presidential candidate, effective from the 1999 elections.

Results

President
Party Candidate Votes %
Colorado PartyJulio María Sanguinetti500,76024.7
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez102,5515.1
Jorge Pacheco Areco51,9352.6
Total656,42632.3
National PartyAlberto Volonté301,65514.9
Juan Andrés Ramírez264,25513.0
Carlos Julio Pereyra65,6503.2
Total633,38431.2
Broad Front–Progressive EncounterTabaré Vázquez621,22630.6
New SpaceRafael Michelini104,7735.2
Green PartyRodolfo Tálice5,4980.25
Other parties (incl. candidate Roberto Canessa)7,9720.35
Invalid/blank votes101,337–
Total2,130,616100
Registered voters/turnout2,330,15491.4
Source: Nohlen

General Assembly
Party Votes % Chamber of Deputies Senate
Seats +/– Seats +/–
Colorado Party656,42632.332+211+2
National Party633,38431.131–810–2
Broad Front–Progressive Encounter621,22630.831+109+2
New Space104,7735.25–41–1
Green Party5,4980.250–0–
Other parties7,9720.350–0–
Invalid/blank votes101,337–––––
Total2,130,61610099031+1
Registered voters/turnout2,330,15491.4––––
Source: Nohlen

Further reading
  • Mieres, Pablo. Elecciones 1994: una nueva fase de la transformación electoral en el Uruguay (PDF) (in Spanish). Revista Uruguaya de Ciencia Política. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 12 June 2014.

References
  1. Nohlen, D (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II, p494 ISBN 978-0-19-928358-3


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