Paraguayan general election, 1993
General elections were held in Paraguay on 9 May 1993.[1] In the country's first honest election, as well as the first with no military candidates since 1928,[2] Juan Carlos Wasmosy of the Colorado Party won the presidential election, whilst the Colorado Party won a plurality of seats in the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, but the opposition Authentic Radical Liberal Party and National Encounter Party held a majority of the seats in both, later supplemented by the Colorado Reconciliation Movement which broke away from the Colorado Party.[3] Voter turnout was 69.0% in the presidential election, 67.6% in the Chamber elections and 69.4% in the Senate elections.[4]
Results
President
Candidate |
Party |
Votes |
% |
Juan Carlos Wasmosy | Colorado Party | 468,213 | 41.6 |
Domingo Laino | Authentic Radical Liberal Party | 376,868 | 33.5 |
Guillermo Caballero Vargas | National Encounter Party | 271,421 | 24.1 |
Eduardo Arce | Workers' Party | 2,025 | 0.2 |
Ricardo Canese | Social Democratic Coalition¹ | 1,998 | 0.2 |
Abraham Zapag | Liberal Party | 1,155 | 0.1 |
Joel Cazal | APN | 1,091 | 0.1 |
Leandro Yedros | MPSP | 1,042 | 0.1 |
Gustavo Bader | PNS | 850 | 0.1 |
Invalid/blank votes | 48,220 | – |
Total | 1,172,883 | 100 |
Source: Nohlen |
¹ The Social Democratic Coalition was an alliance of the Christian Democratic Party and the Paraguayan Humanist Party.
Senate
Chamber of Deputies
References
- ↑ Nohlen, D (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II, p425 ISBN 978-0-19-928358-3
- ↑ Nohlen, p420
- ↑ Nohlen, p417
- ↑ Nohlen, pp426-432