1968 Venezuelan general election

none 1968 Venezuelan general election Venezuela (1954) 1963 Venezuelan general election 1963 1973 Venezuelan general election 1973 1 December 1968 yes Presidential election presidential no 4,134,928 96.73% ( 4.46pp) Rafael Caldera en 1967.jpeg Rafael Caldera Copei 1,083,712 29.13% Gonzalo Barrios 1968.jpg Gonzalo Barrios Democratic Action (Venezuela) 1,050,806 28.24% Miguel Ángel Burelli Rivas 1950.jpg Miguel Burelli Democratic Republican Union 826,758 22.22% Luis Beltrán Prieto Figueroa.jpg Luis Prieto People's Electoral Movement (Venezuela) 719,461 19.34% Mapa de las elecciones presidenciales de Venezuela de 1968.svg President Raúl Leoni Democratic Action Rafael Caldera Copei General elections were held in Venezuela on 1 December 1968.Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II, p555 978-0-19-928358-3 The presidential election was won by Rafael Caldera of Copei, who received 29.1% of the vote.Nohlen, p580 Acción Democrática (Democratic Action, AD) remained the largest party in the Chamber of Deputies and Senate. Voter turnout was 96.7% in the presidential election and 94.5% in the Congressional elections.Nohlen, p556 When Caldera took office in March 1969, it marked the first time in Venezuela's history as an independent nation that the sitting government peacefully transferred power to an elected member of the opposition. Background The election was shaped by a split in AD. Luis Beltrán Prieto Figueroa, then President of the Venezuelan Senate and President of AD, won the AD primary election (held in 1967). His nomination was overturned in favor of Gonzalo Barrios by the Rómulo Betancourt faction of AD, which considered Prieto Figueroa too left-wing.Swanson, D. L.; Mancini, P. (1996) Politics, media, and modern democracy: an international study of innovations in electoral campaigning and their consequences, Greenwood Publishing Group, p244 Prieto Figueroa and a substantial number of his supporters then split from AD and formed a new party: the People's Electoral Movement ("Movimiento Electoral del Pueblo" - MEP). Ultimately, Prieto finished fourth, but his 719,000 votes far exceeded the 32,900-vote gap between Caldera and Barrios. Results President Rafael Caldera Copei–MDI Independent Democratic Movement 1083712 Gonzalo Barrios AD–API Independent Popular Alliance–AIR Revolutionary Independent Action–OPIR Revolutionary Independent Popular Organisation 1050806 Miguel Ángel Burelli Rivas URD–Popular Democratic Front (Venezuela) es Fuerza Democrática Popular FDP–Democratic National Front es Frente Nacional Democrático FND–MENI 826758 Luis Beltrán Prieto Figueroa MEP–Revolutionary Party of Nationalist Integration es Partido Revolucionario de Integración Nacionalista PRIN–National Opinion es Opinión Nacional OPINA 719461 Alejandro Hernández Democratic Socialist Party 27336 Germán Borregales National Action Movement 12587 278957 4134928 Nohlen Congress 250px250px Chamber +/– Senate +/– Democratic Action 939759 66 0 19 –3 Copei 883814 59 +20 16 +8 People's Electoral Movement 475909 25 New 5 New Nationalist Civic Crusade 402351 21 New 4 New Democratic Republican Union 340195 18 –11 3 –4 Popular Democratic Front (Venezuela) es Fuerza Democrática Popular Popular Democratic Front 194931 10 –6 2 –2 Union for Progress 103591 5 New 1 New Democratic National Front es Frente Nacional Democrático 96027 4 New 1 New Revolutionary Party of Nationalist Integration es Partido Revolucionario de Integración Nacionalista 88509 4 New 1 New Democratic Socialist Party 29920 1 0 0 0 National Action Movement 24407 1 +1 0 0 Independent Democratic Movement 18337 0 New 0 New Independent Popular Alliance 18332 0 New 0 New Independent National Electoral Movement 13847 0 –1 0 0 Revolutionary Independent Action 9154 0 New 0 New National Opinion es Opinión Nacional 7339 0 New 0 New 18 other parties 31662 0 – 0 – 229739 4134928 +35 +5 Nohlen References General Venezuela Category:Parliamentary elections in Venezuela Category:Presidential elections in Venezuela Venezuela Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results