Chilean parliamentary election, 2009
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Parliamentary elections were held in Chile on December 13, 2009, in conjunction with the presidential election.[1] The totality of seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 18 out of 38 seats in the Senate were up for election.
The centre-right Coalition for Change improved on the Alliance for Chile's result in 2005 by winning 58 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, while the governing center-left Concertación (CPD) was reduced to 57 seats. The election was notable because the election of three communist MP's (Jorge Teillier, Hugo Gutiérrez and Lautaro Carmona) and the defeat of the current Speaker of the Chamber Rodrigo Álvarez (UDI) in hands of a younger (RN) Marcela Sabat. Also is disappointing to the Government not to be able to break the dubbing of the center-right in Las Condes. In the career to the Senate the surprise was Joaquín Lavín's defeat.
Legislation
According to the Chilean Constitution, the citizens could exercise the right to suffrage, or, those who have expired 18 years of age and have not been condemned to a sorrow superior to 3 years of prison (a distressing sorrow). To take part in the elections it was needed to be before inscribed in the electoral records and to present the bond of identity. The requirements to register were a 18-year-old major being in the day of the election and to have Chilean nationality or to be a resident foreigner for more than five years in the country (that one credits with a certificate expressed by the respective provincial governor). The right to vote was remaining suspended by interdiction in case of dementia, for being accused by crime that deserves a distressing sorrow or for crime for terrorism and for sanction of the Constitutional Court (in conformity to the article 19 n. º 15 clause 7. º of the Constitution).
In agreement to the legislation of the epoch, the process of inscription in the electoral records was voluntary, but after having registered, the elector was forced to support to perpetuity and only it could apologize for reasons of health or for being located to more than 300 kilometres of distance of the place of voting, fact of the one that can leave witness him in the Carabineers' most nearby unit of Chile. In case of not helping or not to take up office as member of table, the electors could be condemned to the payment of fines. Though on March 27, 2009 there was promulgated by the chairwoman Michelle Bachelet the law that establishes the automatic inscription of the voters and that allows the voluntary voting of these, 4 the entry in force of the above mentioned regulation was not applicable in these elections due to the lack of the law that was regulating sayings procesos.5 The election with voluntary vote materialized in the municipal elections of 2012.
Candidates
Concert & Together We Can fore more democracy
The A list conformed after the union of two political coalitions that had taken part separately in the elections of 2005. On one hand the Concert of parties for democracy, which was grouping to the center-left parties that since 1990 governed the country. In the other hand the left-wing Together We Can More, that it suffered an internal division after the exit of the Humanist Party.
The reason of this strange union was, the Binomial System that get out the political left from the National Congress since 1994.
The largest party inside the A list was the Christian Democrats, with the leadership of Juan Carlos Latorre who was chief of the Eduardo Frei's presidential campaign. The Socialists joined with the senator Camilo Escalona, PPD with the deputy Pepe Auth. The Radicals led by Senator Gómez, and the Communist Party with the leadership of Guillermo Teillier.
Coalition for Change
The Alliance for Chile for the elections of 2009, began with an important step, by means of I arrive of two precandidates, one of them the senator Pablo Longueira, and the mayor of Concepción, Jacqueline van Rysselberghe, both of the Independent Democratic Union, who demonstrated his availability of postulating to this post, using the regular conduits inside the coalition, nevertheless, both rejected such an option to present only a presidential candidate, who would be Sebastián Piñera.
In March, 2009, two Congressmen of the Alliance for Chile obtained the speaker of the Senate and the speaker of the Deputies' Chamber, by means of an agreement with the independent bench and with the Concert, respectively. The above mentioned agreements were not lacking in polemic, since the Senator who postulated the alliance to preside at the above mentioned organism, Jovino Novoa, was duramente criticized for personeros of the Concert in view of his past as member of Augusto Pinochet Ugarte's military regime.
In spite of the critiques, the Alliance for Chile awarded a political victory on having presided at both chambers of the National Congress and some of the most influential commissions of the same one, which, they waited in the conglomerate opponent, he was benefiting Sebastián Piñera's candidacy.
After having integrated the list Clean Chile, Vote Happy, one was generated fail between the charter members of ChileFirst with regard to the position that would take the party opposite to the presidential and parliamentary elections of 2009. Whereas Jorge Schaulsohn and Senator Flores supported the candidate of the Alliance for Chile Sebastián Piñera,[2] the deputy Esteban Valenzuela rejected to join with the center-right and resigned ChileFirst to endorse Marco Enríquez-Ominami's candidacy.[3] The support to Piñera on the part of ChileFirst was made official on May 6, 2009, when one presented the "Coalition for the Change", electoral agreement between the Alliance for Chile, ChileFirst and other political minor movements.
New Majority for Chile
New Majority for Chile was a political coalition that grouped the Ecologist party of Chile, the Humanist Party of Chile, and diverse political and independent movements that supported the candidacy of the independent Marco Enríquez-Ominami for the presidential election of 2009. Between the movements and groups without political legal constitution that they it shaped are the Regionalist Movement,[4] the Movement Unified of Sexual Minorities (MUMS),[5] the Movement SurDA and the Progressist Network.[6]
Slogans
Party | Slogan |
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Christian Democrat | With you, will live better. Live dreaming a new sun |
Radical Social Democrat | A change must be Radical |
Socialist | Socialist Heart |
PPD | Let's break the Ice |
Communist | ¡United we can! |
RN | With your vote today it's possible |
UDI | The motor of popular change. |
Regionalist | We are hope, We are future |
Humanist | We are the new majority |
Chilean Chamber of Deputies elections
58 | 2 | 3 | 57 |
Coalition for Change | Ind | PRI | Concert & Together We Can |
37 | 18 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 19 | 18 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 1 |
UDI | RN | ' | Ind | PRI | PDC | PPD | PS | PRSD | PC | ' |
List | Parties | Candidates |
Number of votes |
% of votes |
Elected |
Net change in seats |
% of seats |
Change in % of vote | ||
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Concert & Together We Can for more democracy | Total List A | 120 | 2,934,378 | 44.3 | 57 | -8 | 47.5 | +0.7% | ||
Christian Democratic | 39 | 940,265 | 14.2 | 19 | -1 | 15.8 | -6.5% | |||
PPD | 27 | 839,744 | 12.7 | 18 | -3 | 15.0 | -2.7% | |||
Socialist | 24 | 653,367 | 9.9 | 11 | -4 | 9.2 | -0.2% | |||
Social Democratic Radical | 14 | 251,456 | 3.8 | 5 | -2 | 4.2 | +0.3% | |||
Communist | 9 | 133,718 | 2.0 | 3 | +3 | 2.5 | -3.1% | |||
List A Independents | 5 | 115,828 | 1.7 | 1 | -1 | 0.8 | -0.2% | |||
Coalition for Change | Total List B | 120 | 2,874,674 | 43.4 | 58 | +4 | 48.3 | +4.4% | ||
UDI | 56 | 1,525,000 | 23.1 | 37 | +4 | 30.8 | +0.7% | |||
National Renewal | 51 | 1,178,392 | 17.8 | 18 | -1 | 15.0 | +3.7% | |||
ChileFirst | 4 | 18,021 | 0.2 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - | |||
List B Independents | 9 | 153,261 | 2.3 | 3 | +1 | 2.5 | +1% | |||
Clean Chile, Vote Happy | Total List D | 92 | 356,798 | 5.4 | 3 | - | 2.5 | - | ||
Regionalist | 63 | 264,466 | 4.0 | 3 | - | 2.5 | - | |||
MAS | 7 | 26,440 | 0.4 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - | |||
List D Independents | 22 | 65,892 | 1.0 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - | |||
New Majority for Chile | Total List C | 79 | 302,627 | 4.6 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - | ||
Humanist | 38 | 95,177 | 1.4 | 0 | - | 0.0 | -0.1% | |||
Ecologist | 2 | 3,815 | 0.1 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - | |||
List C Independents | 39 | 206,635 | 3.1 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - | |||
Independents out of pact | 18 | 147,379 | 2.2 | 2 | +2 | 1.67 | +1.3% | |||
Total | 429 | 6,615,856 | 100.0 | 120 | 100.0 |
List of elected deputies 2010-2014
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17 | 1 | 19 | 1 |
Coalition for Change | Ind | Concert & Together We Can | ' |
8 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 1 |
UDI | RN | ' | Ind | PDC | ' | PPD | PS | ' |
List | Parties | Candidates | Elected (2009) | Old seats (2005) | Total seats | % of Seats | Net Change in seats |
% of Votes | Number of Votes | ||
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Concert & Together We Can for more democracy | Total List A | 18 | 9 | 10 | 19 | 50.0 | -1 | 43.3 | 820,147 | ||
Christian Democratic | 8 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 23.7 | +3 | 16.6 | 314,145 | |||
PPD | 4 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 10.5 | +1 | 13.8 | 262,503 | |||
Socialist | 4 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 13.2 | -3 | 9.2 | 175,017 | |||
Social Democratic Radical | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2.6 | -2 | 3.6 | 68,482 | |||
Coalition for Change | Total List B | 17 | 9 | 7 | 16 | 42.1 | -1 | 45.2 | 856,593 | ||
National Renewal | 8 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 21.0 | 20.2 | 382,728 | ||||
UDI | 7 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 21.0 | -1 | 21.3 | 403,741 | |||
Independents List B | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 3.7 | 70,124 | ||||
Clean Chile, Vote Happy | Total List D | 10 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2.6 | -1 | 6.4 | 122,041 | ||
Regionalist | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | -1 | 2.4 | 46,730 | |||
MAS | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2.6 | Did not contest | |||||
Independents List D | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 4.0 | 75,311 | ||||
New Majority for Chile | Total List C | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 4.9 | 92,240 | |||
Humanist | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 12,974 | ||||
Independents List C | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 4.2 | 79,266 | ||||
Independents out of pact | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2.6 | 0.2 | 4,461 |
Tarapacá-Arica and Parinacota
Pact | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Result | ||
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Coalition for Change | UDI | Jaime Orpis | 56,390 | 33.5 | Hold his seat | ||
Clean Chile, Vote Happy | Independent | Salvador Urrutia | 47,087 | 29.3 | |||
Concertación | Socialist | Fulvio Rossi | 45,639 | 26.8 | New senator | ||
Coalition for Change | National Renewal | Julio Lagos | 12,348 | 7.3 | |||
Concertación | Christian Democratic | Daniel Espinoza | 6,919 | 4.1 |
Atacama
Pact | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Result | ||
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Coalition for Change | National Renewal | Baldo Prokurica | 34,793 | 33.0 | Hold his seat | ||
Concertación | Socialist | Isabel Allende Bussi | 28,240 | 26.8 | New senator | ||
Concertación | PPD | Antonio Leal | 19,693 | 18.7 | |||
Clean Chile, Vote Happy | Regionalist | Jaime Mulet Martínez | 18,580 | 17.6 | |||
Clean Chile, Vote Happy | Regionalist | Robinson Peña | 2,126 | 2.0 | |||
Coalition for Change | UDI | Cristián Letelier | 1,909 | 1.8 |
Valparaiso East
Pact | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Result | ||
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Concertación | Christian Democratic | Ignacio Walker | 76,716 | 21.1 | New senator | ||
Concertación | Social Democratic Radical | Nelson Ávila | 64,124 | 17.6 | Lost his seat | ||
Coalition for Change | UDI | Marcelo Forni | 71,645 | 19.7 | |||
Coalition for Change | National Renewal | Lily Pérez | 83,595 | 23.0 | New senator | ||
New Majority for Chile | Independent | Carlos Ominami | 60,945 | 16.7 | |||
New Majority for Chile | Independent | Cristián García-Huidobro | 2,509 | 0.7 | |||
Clean Chile, Vote Happy | Independent | Lautaro Velásquez | 4,422 | 1.2 |
Valparaíso West
Pact | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Result | ||
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Concertación | PPD | Ricardo Lagos Weber | 123,626 | 33.2 | New senator | ||
Coalition for Change | National Renewal | Francisco Chahuán | 105,123 | 28.2 | New senator | ||
Coalition for Change | UDI | Joaquín Lavín | 103,762 | 27.9 | |||
Concertación | Christian Democratic | Hernán Pinto | 22,447 | 6.00 | |||
New Majority for Chile | Independent | Juan Guzmán | 14,784 | 4.0 | |||
Clean Chile, Vote Happy | Regionalist | Raúl Silva | 2,773 | 0.7 |
Maule North
Pact | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Result | ||
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Coalition for Change | UDI | Juan Antonio Coloma | 96,844 | 35.2 | Hold his seat | ||
Concertación | Christian Democratic | Andrés Zaldívar | 86,266 | 31.3 | Holding in a new seat | ||
Concertación | Socialist | Jaime Gazmuri | 67,586 | 24.6 | Lost his seat | ||
Coalition for Change | National Renewal | Robert Morrison | 17,548 | 6.3 | |||
New Majority for Chile | Humanist | Mercedes Bravo | 6,942 | 2.5 |
Maule South
Pact | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Result | ||
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Coalition for Change | UDI | Hernán Larraín | 67,461 | 43.1 | Hold his seat | ||
Concertación | Christian Democratic | Ximena Rincón | 48,607 | 31.0 | New senator | ||
Concertación | Socialist | Jaime Naranjo | 32,867 | 21.0 | Lost his seat | ||
Coalition for Change | Independent | Juan Ariztía | 6,110 | 3.9 | |||
New Majority for Chile | Humanist | Marilén Cabrera | 1,567 | 1.0 |
Araucanía North
Pact | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Result | ||
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Coalition for Change | National Renewal | Alberto Espina | 52,082 | 38.5 | Hold his seat | ||
Concertación | PPD | Jaime Quintana | 40,120 | 29.7 | New senator | ||
Concertación | Christian Democratic | Tomás Jocelyn-Holt | 7,481 | 5.5 | |||
Coalition for Change | Independent | Cecilia Villouta | 7,255 | 5.4 | |||
New Majority for Chile | Humanist | Juan Enrique Prieto | 1,611 | 1.2 | |||
Clean Chile, Vote Happy | Independent | Roberto Muñoz | 20,126 | 14.9 | |||
Clean Chile, Vote Happy | Independent | Enrique Sanhueza | 6,574 | 4.9 | |||
Source[8] |
Araucanía South
Pact | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Result | ||
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Concertación | PPD | Eugenio Tuma Zedan | 74,207 | 29.1 | New senator | ||
Coalition for Change | National Renewal | José García Ruminot | 57,260 | 22.4 | Hold his seat | ||
Coalition for Change | UDI | Ena von Baer | 56,578 | 22.2 | |||
Concertación | Christian Democratic | Francisco Huenchumilla | 51,338 | 20.1 | |||
Clean Chile, Vote Happy | Regionalist | Eduardo Díaz | 11,464 | 4.5 | |||
New Majority for Chile | Humanist | Luis Fernando Vivanco | 2,779 | 1.1 | |||
Clean Chile, Vote Happy | Independent | José Villagrán | 1,512 | 0.6 | |||
Source[9] |
Aysen
Pact | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Result | ||
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Coalition for Change | National Renewal | Antonio Horvath | 14,193 | 34.6 | Hold his seat | ||
Concertación | Christian Democratic | Patricio Walker | 11,293 | 27.5 | New senator | ||
Clean Chile, Vote Happy | Regionalist | Eduardo Cruces | 6,958 | 17.0 | |||
Clean Chile, Vote Happy | Regionalist | Paz Foitzich | 4,613 | 11.2 | |||
Concertación | Social Democratic Radical | Ernesto Velasco | 3,940 | 9.6 | |||
Source[10] |
References
- ↑ Cronograma Electoral, Servel
- ↑ Infinita, Schaulsohn se Asume Piñerista
- ↑ La Nación, Valenzuela dejó Chile Primero por apoyo a Piñera
- ↑ http://www.regionalistas.cl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=30&Itemid=28 Acuerdo entre el el PH, PE, el Movimiento Regionalista, Progresistas en Red y el MUMS
- ↑ http://www.mums.cl/sitio/contenidos/noticias/not_2009_09_14_01.htm Mums inscribe candidatos por la diversidad sexual al Parlamento
- ↑ http://www.tomashirsch.cl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=216:fuerzas-progresistas-alternativas-y-de-izquierda-acuerdan-lista-parlamentaria-que-busca-aglutinar-nueva-mayoria-&catid=9:noticias Acuerdan lista parlamentaria para aglutinar nueva mayoría
- ↑ Tricel via Interior Ministry.
- ↑ "Votación Candidatos por Circunscripción 14". Sitio histórico electoral. Retrieved 27 July 2011.
- ↑ Elecciones.gov.cl Votación candidatos por Cicunscripción 15, La Araucanía Sur, senadores 2009
- ↑ Elecciones.gov.cl Votación candidatos por Cicunscripción 18, Aysén, senadores 2009
External links
- Results down to communal level (Interior Ministry)
- Results by ballot box (Tricel)