Elections in Chile

• 2.1 The Second Party System: 1932-56
• 2.2 The Fourth Party System: Since 1989 2.2.1 presidential elections
• 2.2.2 House of Representatives
• 2.2.3 Senate

Election results by party

Socialist Party and PPD

The Partido Socialista de Chile was founded in 1933, but the later party chairman Marmaduque Grove took the year before the presidential election in part. Because the Parteil 1989 was still prohibited, the sister party, the Partido por la Democracia was founded, and still exists today. Double memberships are available.

Christian

The Partido Demócrata Cristiano de Chile ( DC) ( Christian Democratic Party of Chile ) was founded in 1957. The most important predecessor party was the Falange Nacional, which had split off in 1938 by the Conservative Party. Because the Falange to 1937 an insignificant splinter party remained with never more than four percent of the vote, it is not listed here. The parliamentary elections of 1957 (which is included in the table) found some months before the renaming.

Radical Party

Partido Radical Social Demócrata

Communist Party

The Partido founded by the father of the Chilean labor movement, Luis Emilio Recabarren 1912 Obrero Socialista (POS ) has been renamed Partido Comunista de Chile in 1922 ( PCCH ). It was not until 1927, under the impact of the repression of the dictatorship Ibañez was admitted to the Comintern. While the POS even up to two MPs had in the 1920s been in Parliament, but overall remained the POS / PCCH up in the 30s, a splinter party. So here are listed only the election results from 1932. President Arturo Alessandri banned the party on the parliamentary elections in 1937, 1941 and 1945 by the Ley de Seguridad Interior del Estado, whereupon the Communists competed under the name Partido Nacional Democrático and Partido Nacional Progresista. 1948-1958 the PCCH was banned again, this time by the Ley Maldita. The first election after the transition in 1989 was boycotted by the PCCH.

National Party and Renovación Nacional

The Partido Nacional (PN ) ( National Party ) was a right-wing conservative party, which was created in 1965 from the two oldest parties in the country, the Partido Conservador ( PC) and the Partido Liberal (PL). She pulled away after the support of their coup in 1973. Although the end of the 1980s resulting Renovación Nacional ( RN ) is not a legal successor of the PN, but ideologically, politically and properly staffed so closely related to her that they are presented here in a table. 1965 presented the added results of PC and PL.

Unión Democrática Independiente

Election results according to phases of the party system

The Second Party System: 1932-56

The period between the dictatorship of Carlos Ibañez del Campo and his presidency is the second phase of the Chilean party history. Here, workers' parties established in the political system and thus slipped the radicals in the center of the political landscape. The period was marked by the Frente Popular ( Chile) and was terminated by the anti-Party Government of Ibañez, which was a serious crisis of the Chilean political parties.

The Fourth Party System: Since 1989

During the dictatorship of the whole of the country 's political system has been fundamentally changed, with serious consequences for the party system. For details, see Political System of Chile.

Presidential elections

House of Representatives

1) In the parliamentary elections in 2009 came The Concertación and Juntos Podemos Más in an electoral alliance, the three seats of the PCCH are included in the 57 seats of the Concertación.

Senate

The Senate has been completely selected 1989 ( 38 selected). There were also nine appointed senators ( abolished in 2006), which were mostly on the side of the Alianza. The following were in the years 1993, 2001, 2009 ... in the regions I, III. , V., VII, IX. , XI. elected and II in the years 1997, 2005, ... in the regions IV VI. , VIII, X, XII. and Metropolitana. The regions I - IV and X - XII. make it two Senators and the regions V. - IX. Metropolitana and four. Therefore, 18 and 20 Senate seats are elected alternately. Is also selected according to the Binomial electoral system. So far, in every election in every region of the Senate seats symmetrically on the Concertación and the Alianza per Chile ( or their precursors alliances ) was assigned, except

1) In the parliamentary elections of 2009, the Concertación and Juntos Podemos Más competed in an electoral alliance.