1971 Uruguayan general election

none General elections were held in Uruguay on 28 November 1971 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 victory for the Colorado Party, which won the presidency and the most seats in the Chamber of Deputies and Senate. Wilson Ferreira Aldunate of the National Party received the most votes for President of any individual candidate. However, as the combined Colorado vote exceeded the combined National vote by just over 12,000 votes, Colorado candidate Juan Maria Bordaberry became President. Under the Ley de Lemas system in effect at the time, the highest-finishing candidate of the party that won the most votes was elected President. This allowed Bordaberry to become President even though he personally received around 60,000 fewer votes than Ferreira. The next month, US president Richard Nixon boasted to UK prime minister Edward Heath that Brazil, an ally of the US, had rigged the election to ensure that the left lost.7 May 2002 Nixon's Foreign Policy https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nixons-foreign-policy/ 30 November 2023 CBS News Fifteen months after taking office, Bordaberry carried out a self-coup, closing down the General Assembly and giving the military and police full powers to restore order. This marked the start of a civic-military dictatorship that ruled the country until the next free elections in 1984. Results 300px300px y Presidential candidate Chamber +/– Senate +/– Colorado Party 7 Juan María Bordaberry 379515 41 –9 13 –3 7 Jorge Batlle Ibáñez 242804 Amílcar Vasconcellos 48839 Juan Luis Pintos 5402 Juan Pedro Ribas 4025 al lema 1039 681624 National Party 5 Wilson Ferreira Aldunate 439649 40 –1 12 –1 5 Mario Aguerrondo 228569 Antonio Fadol 35 al lema 569 668822 Broad Front Líber Seregni 304275 18 +16 5 +4 Christian Radical Union Daniel Pérez del Castillo 8844 0 New 0 New Party of Retirees and Pensioners Vázquez 288 0 New 0 New Righteous Movement Bolívar Espínola 241 0 New 0 New black Youth Party for Oriental Development Suárez 25 0 New 0 New 0 0 48647 1878132 Electoral Court See also Operation Thirty Hours References External links "Eleccion_nacional_1971.htm", Uruguayan government Corte Electoral Politics Data Bank at the Social Sciences School – Universidad de la República (Uruguay) Category:Parliamentary elections in Uruguay Category:Presidential elections in Uruguay Uruguay General Uruguay