Chilean presidential election, 1970

The presidential elections in Chile in 1970 took place on 4 September.

• 2.1 election result
• 2.2 runoff in the National Congress

Candidates

For the Unidad Popular ( UP), the socialist Senator Salvador Allende Gossen approached. The doctor was Senator since 1945 for Valparaíso and came back in 1952, 1958 and 1964 as a candidate of the Frente de Acción Popular electoral alliance to. The stated goal of the UP was the Chiles democratic transformation towards socialism.

Partido Nacional

For represented by the Partido Nacional rights of former president Jorge Alessandri Rodriguez nonparty approached. Allesandri was 1958-1964 before a supported by liberals, conservatives and radicals government, the domestic politics pursued a liberal economic policy and leaning foreign policy to the United States under President John F. Kennedy.

Partido Demócrata Cristiano de Chile

The center-left was represented in these elections of Christian Radomiro Tomic. The PDC turned on their former party chief, who intended to continue the moderate left-wing politics of former President Eduardo Frei Montalva and appeared as a champion of national sovereignty and Chilenisierung of copper.

Choice

Election result

Source: El Mercurio, September 5, 1970

Runoff in the National Congress

As in the national elections no candidate erlang absolute majority went right to the President to determine, on the Parliament of. For this purpose both chambers came together as Congreso Plenum together and voted on October 24, Salvador Allende as the new President. Although the UP only 83 made ​​of 200 members of Congress Allende was the majority safe because the Christian Democrats declared themselves ready to vote for the winner of the first round of voting. Thus Allende could count on the comfortable majority of 157 votes.

Was overshadowed the runoff from one initiated by the CIA assassination of the constitutional loyal General René Schneider, this died on October 25.