Chilean parliamentary election, 2005
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The 2005 Chilean parliamentary election took place on December 11, 2005, in conjunction with the presidential election. All of the 120 seats in the Chamber of Deputies were contested, while 20 out of 38 seats in the Senate were up for election (even-numbered regions and the metropolitan region). Deputies serve for a period of four years, while senators serve for a period of eight years. Reelection is permitted.
According to national legislation, all Chilean citizens may participate in the election (that is, all Chilean nationals over the age of 18 qualified by law to do so), as well as foreign residents with over five years of stay in the country (under certain conditions). In any case, all electors must register first in the Electoral Register if they want to vote. Once registered, voting is mandatory. Over seven million people voted in the election (less than half of the total population).
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[edit] Electoral system
The system regulating parliamentary elections in Chile has been locally branded "sistema binominal" (binomial system). Each participating list and other minors pacts present up to two candidates per district (for deputies) or circumscription (for senators).
Candidates obtaining a majority among the two most voted lists are elected. In the case a list doubles the number of votes of a second list, both candidates from the first list are elected.
The system has been much criticized, in part due to the difficulty that the most voted list can double the second most voted list, opening the possibility for a second-list candidate to be elected with a percentage of the vote smaller than that of the second most voted candidate. This has resulted in an almost evenly divided Congress between representatives of the governing Coalition of Parties for Democracy (CPD) and of the right-wing Alliance for Chile (APC), and negating representation to candidates of the extreme-left parties within the Together We Can Do More (JPM) pact.
[edit] Major parties
During the election, the Chamber of Deputies was composed of 62 CPD deputies (23 Christian Democrats, 20 PPD, ten Socialists, six PRSD and three independents), 57 APC deputies (31 UDI, 18 RN and eight independents) and one independent (off-pact).
The Senate was composed of 38 directly-elected senators and nine non-elected senators (institutional senators, or senators for life). Among the elected, 20 seats are held by the CPD (eleven Christian Democrats, five Socialists, three PPD and one PRSD) and 18 by the APC (six independents, six UDI and six RN). A constitutional reform in 2005 eliminated non-elected senators from March 11, 2006, the day the newly-elected senators were sworn in.
Of the Senate seats being contested, eleven were held by the CPD (ten Christian Democrats and one Socialist) and nine by the APC (four independents, three UDI and two RN).
[edit] Election results
[edit] Elected candidates
These results are based on official information given by the Election Qualifier Tribunal (Tricel) on January 29, 2006.
Elected candidates appear in bold and centered. (R) indicates candidates running for reelection. Strikethrough names indicate candidacies rejected by the Electoral Service (Servel).
[edit] Chamber of Deputies
| Dist. | Democratic Coalition | Alliance | Together We Can Do More | Independent Regional Force | Independent (off-pact) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rolando Caviedes (PDC) | Ximena Valcarce (RN) | Juan Riveros (PC) | Bernardo Olivos (PAR) | Nino Baltolú |
| (R) Iván Paredes (PS) | (R) Rosa González (UDI) | Ricardo Pacheco (PH) | Wanda Clemente (Ind.) | ||
| 2 | Raúl Bagioli (PDC) | Espártago Ferrari (RN) | Pedro Cisterna (PC) | Marta Isasi (PAR) | none |
| (R) Fulvio Rossi (PS) | Julio Lagos (UDI) | Sara Chávez (Ind.) | |||
| 3 | (R) Waldo Mora (PDC) | Raúl Salinas (RN) | Daniel Ramírez (PC) | Jorge Godoy (Ind.) | |
| Marcos Espinosa (PRSD) | Felipe Ward (UDI) | Francisco Avendaño (PH) | Miguel Urrelo (Ind.) | ||
| 4 | (R) Pedro Araya (PDC) | Daniel Guevara (Ind.) | Luis Sagredo (PC) | Raúl Zepeda (Ind.) | none |
| Hernán Rivera (Ind.) | (R) Manuel Rojas (UDI) | Pedro Luque (PH) | Rosa Pérez (Ind.) | ||
| 5 | Erick Villegas (PDC) | René Aedo (RN) | Gastón Quezada (PC) | Jorge Cuello (PAR) | |
| (R) Antonio Leal (PPD) | Alberto Calvo (UDI) | Carlos Toro (PH) | |||
| 6 | (R) Jaime Mulet (PDC) | Berta Torres (RN) | Isabel Irribarren (PC) | Cristián Tapia (Ind.) | none |
| (R) Alberto Robles (PRSD) | José Luis Uriarte (UDI) | Lorena Ortega (PH) | |||
| 7 | Ricardo Cifuentes (PDC) | (R) Mario Bertolino (RN) | Eric Campos (PC) | none | none |
| Marcelo Díaz (PS) | Francisco Eguiguren (UDI) | Luis Vega (PC) | |||
| 8 | (R) Patricio Walker (PDC) | Alberto Gallardo (RN) | Miguel Solís (PC) | none | none |
| (R) Francisco Encina (PS) | Fernando Cordero (UDI) | Mario González (PH) | |||
| 9 | Renán Fuentealba (PDC) | Fernando Goncalves (RN) | Julio Ugas (PC) | none | |
| (R) Adriana Muñoz (PPD) | (R) Darío Molina (UDI) | Rubén Ruiz (PC) | |||
| 10 | (R) María Eugenia Mella (PDC) | (R) Alfonso Vargas (RN) | Daniel Jadué (PC) | none | none |
| Marco Enríquez-Ominami (PS) | Alfonso Ríos (UDI) | Jaime Romero (PH) | |||
| 11 | (R) Patricio Cornejo (PDC) | Gaspar Rivas (RN) | Mario Méndez (PC) | none | none |
| Marco Núñez (PPD) | (R) Marcelo Forni (UDI) | Carlos Muñoz (PH) | |||
| 12 | Humberto de la Maza (PDC) | Amelia Herrera (RN) | Danilo Ahumada (PC) | none | none |
| (R) Juan Bustos (PS) | Osvaldo Urrutia (UDI) | Martín Ristempart (PH) | |||
| 13 | Álex Avsolomovich (PDC) | Joaquín Godoy (RN) | Óscar Aroca (PC) | none | none |
| (R) Laura Soto (PPD) | Luis Parot (UDI) | Rafael Henríquez (PH) | |||
| 14 | Raúl Allard (PDC) | Francisco Chahuán (RN) | Felipe Zavala (PC) | none | none |
| (R) Rodrigo González (PPD) | (R) Gonzalo Ibáñez (UDI) | Luis Aravena (Ind.) | |||
| 15 | Osvaldo Badenier (PDC) | (R) Carlos Hidalgo (Ind.) | Maximiliano Miranda (PC) | none | Sergio Velasco |
| (R) Samuel Venegas (PRSD) | Edmundo Eluchans (UDI) | Aníbal Reyna (Ind.) | |||
| 16 | Gabriel Silber (PDC) | Peter Retamales (RN) | Carmen Hertz (PC) | none | none |
| Fanny Pollarolo (PS) | (R) Patricio Melero (UDI) | Osvaldo Toro (PH) | |||
| 17 | Sergio Espejo (PDC) | Karla Rubilar (RN) | Jorge Insunza (PC) | none | none |
| (R) María Antonieta Saa (PPD) | Álvaro Cruzat (UDI) | Juan López (PH) | |||
| 18 | (R) Carlos Olivares (PDC) | Pedro Pablo Díaz (RN) | Óscar Hernández (PC) | none | none |
| Guido Girardi Briere (PPD) | Miguel Schweitzer (UDI) | José Antonio Salinas (PH) | |||
| 19 | Mauricio Castro (PDC) | Pablo Rochet (RN) | Germán Llanca (Ind.) | none | |
| (R) Patricio Hales (PPD) | Claudia Nogueira (UDI) | Nicolás García (Ind.) | |||
| 20 | Luis Pareto (PDC) | Roberto Sepúlveda (RN) | Juan Andrés Lagos (PC) | none | none |
| Álvaro Escobar (PPD) | (R) Mario Varela (UDI) | Valdemar Sanhueza (Ind.) | |||
| 21 | (R) Jorge Burgos (PDC) | Juan Guillermo Vivado (RN) | Jaime Gajardo (PC) | none | none |
| Patricia Silva (PS) | (R) Marcela Cubillos (UDI) | Juan Carlos Gálvez (PH) | |||
| 22 | Ricardo Hormazábal (PDC) | Carmen Ibáñez (RN) | Claudia Pascual (PC) | none | none |
| (R) Carolina Tohá (PPD) | (R) Alberto Cardemil (Ind.) | Claudia Manríquez (PH) | |||
| 23 | Clemente Pérez (PDC) | Cristián Monckeberg (RN) | Antonieta Vera (PC) | none | none |
| Leopoldo Sánchez (PPD) | (R) Julio Dittborn (UDI) | Carlos Padilla (PH) | |||
| 24 | Marigen Hornkohl (PDC) | Francisco López (RN) | Francisco Villa (PC) | none | none |
| (R) Enrique Accorsi (PPD) | (R) María Angélica Cristi (UDI) | Susana Córdova (PH) | |||
| 25 | Marcelo Ortiz (PDC) | Raquel Argandoña (RN) | Amaro Labra (PC) | none | |
| (R) Ximena Vidal (PPD) | (R) Felipe Salaberry (UDI) | Juan Enrique Prieto (PH) | |||
| 26 | Gonzalo Duarte (PDC) | Miguel Navarro (RN) | Julio Oliva (PC) | none | |
| (R) Carlos Montes (PS) | Gustavo Alessandri (UDI) | Raúl Florcita Alarcón (PH) | |||
| 27 | (R) Eliana Caraball (PDC) | Carlos Contreras (RN) | Ercides Martínez (PC) | none | none |
| Tucapel Jiménez (Ind.) | (R) Iván Moreira (UDI) | Mónica Quilodrán (Ind.) | |||
| 28 | (R) Rodolfo Seguel (PDC) | Julio Ibarra (RN) | Eduardo Contreras (PC) | none | none |
| Jorge Insunza (PPD) | (R) Darío Paya (UDI) | Claudina Núñez (PC) | |||
| 29 | Teresa Montrone (PDC) | (R) Maximiano Errázuriz (RN) | Manuel Hernández (PC) | none | none |
| (R) Isabel Allende (PS) | Pablo Desbordes (UDI) | Patricio Bell (PH) | |||
| 30 | (R) Edgardo Riveros (PDC) | Rosa Oyarce (RN) | Sergio Castro (PC) | none | none |
| Ramón Farías (PPD) | (R) José Antonio Kast (UDI) | Tania Figueroa (PH) | |||
| 31 | Francisco Puga (PDC) | Alberto Haddad (RN) | Marcela Mallea (PC) | none | none |
| Denise Pascal (PS) | (R) Gonzalo Uriarte (UDI) | Luis Leoncio Álvarez (PH) | |||
| 32 | Juan Ramón Godoy (Ind.) | Luis Díaz (RN) | Pedro Aravena (PC) | none | none |
| (R) Esteban Valenzuela (PPD) | (R) Alejandro García-Huidobro (UDI) | Guido Oyarzún (PH) | |||
| 33 | Carlos Dupré (PDC) | Félix Ortiz (Ind.) | Carlos Poblete (PC) | none | none |
| Alejandro Sule (PRSD) | (R) Eugenio Bauer (UDI) | Sergio Mella (PH) | |||
| 34 | (R) Alejandra Sepúlveda (PDC) | Rodrigo Montt (Ind.) | José Figueroa (PC) | none | none |
| Alba Gallardo (PS) | (R) Juan Masferrer (UDI) | José Tejo (PH) | |||
| 35 | Juan Carlos Latorre (PDC) | César Molfino (Ind.) | Patricio Martínez (PC) | none | none |
| Rubén Andino (PS) | (R) Ramón Barros (UDI) | Mauro Pantoja (PH) | |||
| 36 | Roberto León (PDC) | Matías Carrozzi (RN) | Wladimir Pulgar (PC) | none | |
| Raúl Bravo (PS) | (R) Sergio Correa (UDI) | María Eliana Astaburuaga (PH) | |||
| 37 | Christian Suárez (PDC) | Germán Verdugo (RN) | Edgardo Cáceres (PC) | none | none |
| (R) Sergio Aguiló (PS) | (R) Pablo Prieto (UDI) | Óscar Vega (Ind.) | |||
| 38 | (R) Pablo Lorenzini (PDC) | (R) Pedro Pablo Álvarez-Salamanca (RN) | José Oróstica (PC) | none | none |
| Roberto Celedón (Ind.) | Eduardo Prieto (UDI) | ||||
| 39 | Yenny Molina (Ind.) | (R) Osvaldo Palma (RN) | Mario Ibarra (PC) | none | none |
| (R) Jorge Tarud (PPD) | Christian Chadwick (UDI) | Roberto Gutiérrez (PH) | |||
| 40 | Ulises Urzúa (Ind.) | Juan Carlos Muñoz (RN) | Edgar Cifuentes (PC) | none | none |
| (R) Guillermo Ceroni (PPD) | (R) Ignacio Urrutia (UDI) | Juan Carlos Márquez (Ind.) | |||
| 41 | Claudio Huepe (PDC) | (R) Rosauro Martínez (RN) | Cristián Muñoz (PC) | none | none |
| (R) Carlos Abel Jarpa (PRSD) | Alejandro Arrau (UDI) | Claudio Ávila (Ind.) | |||
| 42 | Jorge Sabag (PDC) | (R) Nicolás Monckeberg (RN) | Luis Soto (PC) | none | |
| (R) Felipe Letelier (PPD) | René Barba (UDI) | Camilo Cabezas (PH) | |||
| 43 | Sergio Micco (PDC) | Frank Sauerbaum (RN) | Alejandro Sepúlveda (PC) | none | Patricio Pinto |
| Raúl Súnico (PS) | (R) Jorge Ulloa (UDI) | Patricia Beltrán (PH) | Elicia Herrera | ||
| 44 | (R) José Miguel Ortiz (PDC) | Francisca Van Rysselberghe (Ind.) | Freddy Cabrera (PC) | none | Félix González |
| Maria Angélica Fuentes (PPD) | (R) Andrés Egaña (UDI) | Loreto Muñoz (PH) | |||
| 45 | Germán Acuña (PDC) | Bernardo Ulloa (Ind.) | Iván Quintana (PC) | none | none |
| Clemira Pacheco (PS) | Sergio Bobadilla (UDI) | Isaías Gutiérrez (Ind.) | |||
| 46 | Edmundo Salas (PDC) | Ana Eugenia García Aillón (RN) | Guillermo Teillier (PC) | none | none |
| Manuel Monsalve (PS) | (R) Iván Norambuena (UDI) | Jorge Venegas (Ind.) | |||
| 47 | Marcelo Urrutia (PDC) | Gonzalo Arellano (RN) | Julio Aránguiz (PC) | none | none |
| (R) José Pérez (PRSD) | Juan Lobos (UDI) | ||||
| 48 | Mario Venegas (PDC) | (R) Francisco Bayo (RN) | Domingo Marileo (PC) | Romnel Edgardo Aravena (ANI) | Sofía Painiqueo |
| Ricardo Navarrete (PRSD) | Gonzalo Arenas (UDI) | Juan Varela (Ind.) | |||
| 49 | Víctor Gárate (PDC) | Cristián Barra (RN) | Mauricio Teillier (PC) | Julio Villablanca (ANI) | none |
| (R) Jaime Quintana (PPD) | Enrique Estay (UDI) | Mario Poo (Ind.) | Eduardo Díaz (Ind.) | ||
| 50 | (R) Eduardo Saffirio (PDC) | (R) Germán Becker (RN) | Javier Chávez (PC) | Guillermo Allende (ANI) | Sergio Castillo |
| Carlos González (PRSD) | Gonzalo Navarrete (UDI) | Carlos Carter (PH) | |||
| 51 | (R) Eduardo Díaz (Ind.) | Hernán Viguera (RN) | Antonieta Faúndez (PC) | Laura Soto Ibacache (ANI) | |
| (R) Eugenio Tuma (PPD) | René Fernández (UDI) | ||||
| 52 | Mario Acuña (PDC) | (R) René Manuel García (RN) | Francisco Painevilo (PC) | Miguel Ángel Arteaga (ANI) | none |
| (R) Fernando Meza (PRSD) | Alejandro Martini (UDI) | Pablo González (PH) | |||
| 53 | (R) Exequiel Silva (PDC) | (R) Roberto Delmastro (Ind.) | Marcia Klein (PC) | Fredi Kirshboom (ANI) | none |
| Alfonso de Urresti (PS) | Sebastián Donoso (UDI) | Beatriz Hermosilla (Ind.) | |||
| 54 | Ricardo Halabí (PDC) | Ewald Wittke (RN) | Pedro Ruiz (PC) | Félix Montiel (ANI) | none |
| (R) Enrique Jaramillo (PPD) | (R) Gastón Von Muhlenbrock (UDI) | ||||
| 55 | (R) Sergio Ojeda (PDC) | Beatriz Díaz (Ind.) | Patricio Miranda (PC) | Jaime Moreira (Ind.) | none |
| Fernando Soto (PS) | (R) Javier Hernández (UDI) | Claudio Soto (Ind.) | |||
| 56 | Carlos Tudela (PDC) | Harry Jurgensen (RN) | Andrea Oyarzún (PC) | Jorge Blaessinger (Ind.) | none |
| (R) Fidel Espinoza (PS) | (R) Carlos Recondo (UDI) | Antonio Caileo (Ind.) | |||
| 57 | Patricio Vallespín (PDC) | Eduardo Becker (RN) | Renato Alvarado (PC) | Pablo Muñoz (Ind.) | none |
| Sergio Galilea (PPD) | Marisol Turres (UDI) | ||||
| 58 | (R) Gabriel Ascencio (PDC) | Alejandro Santana (RN) | Mario Contreras (PC) | none | |
| Juan José Cárcamo (PPD) | (R) Claudio Alvarado (UDI) | Luis Veloso (Ind.) | |||
| 59 | Eduardo Santelices (PDC) | (R) Pablo Galilea (RN) | Yasna Jara (PC) | Mercedes Mayorga (Ind.) | none |
| René Alinco (PPD) | Max Larraín (UDI) | Walter Ramírez (Ind.) | |||
| 60 | Carolina Goic (PDC) | René Bobadilla (Ind.) | Jeannette Antonin (PC) | none | Miodrag Marinovic |
| Lidia Amarales (PPD) | (R) Rodrigo Álvarez (UDI) | Jaime Agurto (Ind.) |
Source: Tricel/Servel.
[edit] Senate
| Circ. | Democratic Coalition | Alliance | Together We Can Do More | Independent Regional Force | Independent (off-pact) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2nd | (R) Carmen Frei (PDC) | (R) Carlos Cantero (RN) | Salvador Barrientos (PC) | Luis Thompson (Ind.) | none |
| José Antonio Gómez (PRSD) | Cristián Leay (UDI) | José Gabriel Feres (PH) | Humberto Zuleta (Ind.) | ||
| 4th | (R) Jorge Pizarro (PDC) | Arturo Longton (RN) | Luis Aguilera (PC) | none | none |
| Jorge Arrate (PS) | (R) Evelyn Matthei (UDI) | Joaquín Arduengo (PH) | |||
| 7th | (R) Andrés Zaldívar (PDC) | Roberto Fantuzzi (Ind.) | Gonzalo Rovira (Ind.) | none | none |
| Guido Girardi (PPD) | (R) Jovino Novoa (UDI) | Eduardo Artés (Ind.) | |||
| 8th | Soledad Alvear (PDC) | Lily Pérez (RN) | Manuel Riesco (PC) | none | none |
| Gonzalo Martner (PS) | Pablo Longueira (UDI) | Efrén Osorio (PH) | |||
| 9th | Aníbal Pérez (PPD) | Ramón Achurra (Ind.) | Carmen Moncada (Ind.) | none | none |
| Juan Pablo Letelier (PS) | (R) Andrés Chadwick (UDI) | Marilén Cabrera (PH) | |||
| 12th | (R) Hosain Sabag (PDC) | Alberto Gyhra (Ind.) | Hugo Corvalán (Ind.) | none | none |
| Alejandro Navarro (PS) | Carlos Bombal (UDI) | Wilfredo Alfsen (PH) | |||
| 13th | (R) Mariano Ruiz-Esquide (PDC) | (R) Mario Ríos (RN) | Marta Morales (PC) | none | none |
| Eleodoro Torres (Ind.) | Víctor Pérez (UDI) | Gloria Mujica (PH) | |||
| 16th | Eduardo Frei (PDC) | Andrés Allamand (RN) | Guillermo Tripailaf (PC) | Raúl Silva (ANI) | none |
| Marcos Saldías (PRSD) | Hugo Gerter (Ind.) | Carlos Boero (ANI) | |||
| 17th | (R) Sergio Páez (PDC) | Carlos Kuschel (RN) | Irma Alvarado (PC) | José Luis Cáceres (Ind.) | none |
| Camilo Escalona (PS) | Joaquín Brahm (UDI) | Tomás Bize (Ind.) | Mario Osses (Ind.) | ||
| 19th | Zarko Luksic (PDC) | Eduardo Catalán (Ind.) | José Foppiano (Ind.) | none | Carlos Bianchi |
| Pedro Muñoz (PS) | (R) Sergio Fernández (UDI) | Fernando Ortiz (PH) |
Source: Tricel/Servel.
[edit] Results by list and party
| Coalitions and parties | Chamber of Deputies | Senate | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats 20051 | Seats 20012 | Total | ||
| A | Independent Regional Force (Fuerza Regional Independiente) | 1.18 | 1 | 0.64 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| National Alliance of Independents (Alianza Nacional de los Independientes) | 0.31 | 0 | 0.28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Regionalist Action Party of Chile (Partido de Acción Regionalista de Chile) | 0.41 | 1 | |||||||
| Independents List A | 0.46 | 0 | 0.36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| B | Coalition of Parties for Democracy (Concertación de Partidos Por la Democracia) | 51.78 | 65 | 55.74 | 11 | 9 | 20 | ||
| Christian Democrat Party (Partido Demócrata Cristiano) | 20.81 | 20 | 29.65 | 5 | 2 | 7 | |||
| Party for Democracy (Partido por la Democracia) | 15.45 | 21 | 10.74 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||
| Socialist Party of Chile (Partido Socialista de Chile) | 9.98 | 15 | 12.12 | 4 | 4 | 8 | |||
| Social Democrat Radical Party (Partido Radical Socialdemócrata) | 3.54 | 7 | 2.44 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Independents List B | 2.00 | 2 | 0.79 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| C | Together We Can Do More (Juntos Podemos Más) | 7.39 | 0 | 5.98 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Communist Party of Chile (Partido Comunista de Chile) | 5.13 | 0 | 2.17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Humanist Party (Partido Humanista) | 1.56 | 0 | 1.46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Independents List C | 0.7 | 0 | 2.35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| D | Alliance for Chile (Alianza por Chile) | 38.70 | 54 | 37.26 | 8 | 9 | 17 | ||
| Independent Democrat Union (Unión Demócrata Independiente) | 22.34 | 33 | 21.56 | 5 | 4 | 9 | |||
| National Renewal (Renovación Nacional) | 14.13 | 19 | 10.8 | 3 | 5 | 8 | |||
| Independents List D | 2.23 | 2 | 4.90 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Independent (off-pact) | 0.95 | 0 | 0.38 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||
| Total | 100.0 | 120 | 100.0 | 20 | 18 | 38 | |||
| Source: Interior Ministry 1 Only 20 out of 38 seats were contested in this election. |
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Source: Interior Ministry.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- (Spanish) Results from the Ministry of Interior
- (Spanish) Electoral Service (Servel)
- (Spanish) Election Qualifier Tribunal (Tricel)
