Uruguayan general election, 1966

The presidential and parliamentary elections in Uruguay in 1966 found on Sunday, 27 November 1966.

From the simultaneous presidential and parliamentary elections, the Partido Colorado, which included four Sublema, containing as a winner in front of the three Sublema Partido Nacional emerged. With the election ended in the existing system of collegial executive. Per referendum had been decided with the approval of slightly more than half of the eligible voters to return to the unipersonalen executive system that due to the 1966 constitutional reform, the President completed the largest to date of formal power equipment with enhanced legislative powers zusprach. Oscar Gestido of the Partido Colorado has been elected president. In the elections, the electoral system was aligned with the relative majority in the so-called Lema system, both the President and the deputies and senators were elected under a proportional representation for a term of five years now.

The allocation of seats for the House of Representatives was as follows:

• Partido Colorado: 50.5 % ( the two strongest Sublema: Gestido / Pacheco Group: 25.3%; Unidad y Reforma (fraction Jorge Batlle, Lista 15 followed by ): 18.2 %)
• Partido Nacional: 41.4 % ( the two strongest Sublema: Herrerismo - Ruralismo: 19.2%; Unión Blanca Democrática: 14.1% )
• Other parties: 8.1%

The distribution of seats in the Cámara de Senadores:

• Partido Colorado: 53.3 %
• Partido Nacional: 43.3 %
• Other parties: 3.3%