1994 Uruguayan general election

none General elections were held in Uruguay on 27 November 1994, alongside a double referendum.Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II, p494 978-0-19-928358-3 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. 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 just 12,100 fewer votes than the combined vote for the runner-up National Party, even though he won over 121,000 more votes than Sanguinetti. 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 thumb|Results of the 1994 Uruguayan presidential election 300px300px y Presidential candidate Chamber +/– Senate +/– Colorado Party 6 Julio María Sanguinetti 500767 32 +2 11 +2 6 Jorge Batlle Ibáñez 102551 Jorge Pacheco Areco 51936 Jorge Barreiro 227 al lema 947 656428 National Party 5 Alberto Volonté 301698 31 –8 10 –2 5 Juan Andrés Ramírez 264258 Carlos Julio Pereyra 65666 al lema 1762 633384 Broad Front–Progressive Encounter Tabaré Vázquez 621226 31 +10 9 +2 New Space Rafael Michelini 104773 5 –4 1 –1 Partido Verde Eto-Ecologista Rodolfo Tálice 5498 0 0 0 0 Party of the Sun Mabel Portillo 2258 0 New 0 New Civic Union Luis Pieri 2063 0 New 0 New Blue Party Roberto Canessa 1645 0 New 0 New blue Party for Social Security Elías Yaffalian 828 0 New 0 New grey Workers' Party Juan Vital Andrada 378 0 0 0 0 Eastern Alliance Federico Silva Ledesma 333 0 New 0 New brown Righteous Movement Bolívar Espínola 161 0 0 0 0 black Democratic Labour Party Pompeyo Giansanti 120 0 New 0 New pink Republican Party Ademar Álvarez Franco 117 0 New 0 New lightblue Progressive Movement Elías Perdomo 69 0 New 0 New darkorange 0 +1 99964 2330154 Electoral Court Further reading Pablo Mieres Mieres Pablo http://www.fcs.edu.uy/archivos/20071109214351.pdf Elecciones 1994: una nueva fase de la transformación electoral en el Uruguay 12 June 2014 Revista Uruguaya de Ciencia Política es https://web.archive.org/web/20140714152031/http://www.fcs.edu.uy/archivos/20071109214351.pdf 14 July 2014 dead dmy-all References External links Politics Data Bank at the Social Sciences School – Universidad de la República (Uruguay) Uruguay Category:Parliamentary elections in Uruguay Category:Presidential elections in Uruguay General Uruguay Category:Julio María Sanguinetti Category:Tabaré Vázquez